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The Keystone XL fault lines among Senate Democrats today emerged into public view as 11 of them -- all but two of those facing serious re-election races this fall -- urged President Obama to decide on the controversial oil sands crude pipeline by May 31.

A marine landing craft would be a poor way to ferry sick or injured passengers from a remote Alaska city to medical help, according to a Seattle-based marine consultant.

Pedro Salmeron is heading to jail after being convicted of letting hundreds of dirty vehicles pass emissions tests in Charlotte, N.C.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell today unveiled the outlines of a new landscape-level mitigation strategy across millions of acres of federal land that she said is designed to take the department's agencies away from narrowly focused project-by-project assessments.

Sri Lanka's government has put the brakes on a plan to ban the Monsanto Co. herbicide glyphosate over fears that the pesticide contributed to a kidney disease outbreak.

Authorities said a western China city's drinking water contains benzene, a cancer-inducing chemical, at levels 20 times greater than national safety standards permit.

A loose hillside threatening several structures in the resort community of Jackson, Wyo., forced residents from 46 homes and apartment buildings to evacuate this week. The evacuation order was downgraded for some businesses today, but about 60 residents still can't return.

Vermont lawmakers are considering scaling back a proposal to put new regulations on toxic chemicals that would have been among the nation's strictest.

Sportsmen are protesting a proposal approved by the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission allowing certain ranchers to kill or fence out elk in an effort to stop the transmission of brucellosis to cattle.

Researchers in drought-stricken Texas are using old oil drilling records to discover hidden sources of underground water.

The on-again, off-again landfill hunt for what was once called the worst video game ever made now has a spot on the calendar: April 26.

Subway will have entirely removed a controversial "yoga mat" chemical from its bread by next week, it says.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's speech at a solid waste industry association was interrupted yesterday when a woman in the audience threw a shoe at her.

A Polish coal ash recycling company reliant on Russian imports is searching for U.S. investors, even though Russia's ongoing conflict in Ukraine might put them off.

Westinghouse Electric Co. said today that it has extended an agreement with Ukraine's largest nuclear power plant operator, state-owned Energoatom, to fuel its plants until 2020.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu yesterday called for a boycott of the fossil fuel industry similar to economic and moral campaigns that were used to fight apartheid in South Africa.

Electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc. is kicking off sales in China this month, even as critics at home say the auto company needs to produce a cheaper vehicle that will attract interest from average drivers.

Unite, don't fight.

A U.S. district court judge ruled this week that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was within its legal rights to drastically cut cod catch limits in New England, despite claims by state officials that the cuts were based on shaky science.

The state of Virginia is asking a federal appeals court to uphold U.S. EPA's landmark Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan against a challenge brought by major agriculture and homebuilding groups.

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