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The federal government must provide more attention and money for fostering the spread of intelligent transportation systems, representatives of the technology and auto industries said yesterday.

Swedish furniture giant Ikea announced today that it is buying its first U.S. wind farm.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has a new plan to sell organic foods at the same significant price discounts it offers for traditional products.

The Department of Energy announced the start yesterday of a pilot project near Tampa, Fla., that would reduce coal pollutants and capture carbon dioxide emissions.

Federal appellate judges today appeared skeptical of an electronic component maker's bid to remove itself from U.S. EPA's Superfund cleanup program in a closely watched case tied to an upcoming Supreme Court argument.

High winds and dry conditions prompted the National Weather Service to issue a "critical fire danger" warning across northwestern Missouri and northeastern Kansas yesterday.

With a new investigation, Puerto Rico officials hope to find out what's causing the eclipse of a glowing bioluminescent bay.

Washington state officials now say at least 36 people are confirmed dead after a huge mudslide tore through the quiet community of Oso, Wash., last month.

The clock has been extended on a public comment period for a proposal to list the yellow-billed cuckoo as threatened.

Yellowstone National Park officials have approved a plan to upgrade the park's aging electrical infrastructure.

The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the federal government yesterday to ban fishing of the Pacific bluefin tuna.

Three environmental groups plan to sue the Interior Department to force stronger protections for the lesser prairie chicken, a grayish-brown grouse the agency listed as "threatened" late last month.

Water quality rules and environmental protections for endangered fish in California will be waived for several months this year as the state's drought persists, a blueprint released yesterday said.

One of Congress' most vocal climate advocates today appealed to like-minded corporations to balance the influence and capital that anti-regulatory companies have spent fanning the flames of climate skepticism.

Top members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee announced bipartisan agreement today on a half-dozen principles for a new surface transportation bill, including a six-year life span, maintaining current formulas for core highway and transit programs, and the continuation of existing spending levels adjusted for inflation.

The Senate today agreed to move forward on President Obama's final nominee to an influential Western federal appeals court.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration must better prepare for a projected gap in weather data and prioritize "must-have" satellite programs, Senate appropriators told Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker today.

The Obama administration's budget request for clean air programs shortchanges states at a time of growing responsibility for regulating emissions, a leading clean air advocate told House appropriators today.

Top grid overseers today reassured a powerful Senate committee that the private electric industry is doing enough to protect the U.S. electric grid from cyber and physical attacks, solar storms and severe weather -- even as they moved to plug a high-profile information leak about grid vulnerabilities.

House Republicans today won 219 votes but no Democratic backing for a fiscal 2015 budget that would sharply slash energy and environmental spending while endorsing the Keystone XL pipeline and expanded oil and gas drilling.

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