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The company responsible for a chemical leak in West Virginia that polluted drinking water for 300,000 people submitted a 37-page cleanup plan yesterday for its Elk River facility.

Los Angeles-area air regulators are crafting new rules meant to force emissions reductions at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which, combined, process thousands of trucks, ships and trains.

A drought in Malaysia is causing headaches for two of the world's biggest rubber glove makers.

Southern California Edison Co., an energy utility in Southern California, is laying off hundreds of employees to streamline management and outsource functions including information technology.

The oldest nuclear reactor at the Salem/Hope complex in New Jersey received an unexplained signal to shut down automatically less than a day after it came back online from an earlier malfunction, officials said yesterday.

A new research initiative aims to find out whether the 15 million rail ties replaced by railroads each year could be turned into energy.

Consumer advocates are calling on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to investigate whether a private equity firm decided to close New England's largest coal plant to game regional power markets there.

Idaho Aquarium Inc. yesterday was sentenced for conspiring to traffic in marine life, the Justice Department announced.

Two oil trade groups have asked a federal court to place a hold on their challenges to a U.S. EPA rule that set the amount of renewable fuel that refiners had to use last year.

A U.S. district court judge has upheld the Bureau of Land Management's decision to lease roughly 350 million tons of federal coal for mining in the Powder River Basin.

A new program in central California is paying farmers in an effort to restore the region's once-thriving bird habitat.

As the Jewish holiday of Passover begins, supply of a crucial fish is scarce -- another downside of the cold winter this year in the eastern United States.

A particular strain of bacteria, around "one millionth of a meter" in size, might play an outsized role in the global carbon cycle that directly affects climate change, according to a new study.

Those convicted of growing marijuana on public lands could receive harsher sentences under a proposal unveiled late last week by an independent federal panel that was cheered by California lawmakers of both parties.

The marine research lab in Beaufort, N.C., traces its roots back to 1899, when the U.S. Fish Commission handed $300 to a professor at the University of North Carolina for the rental of a house downtown.

Former Energy Department and U.S. EPA officials have signed up some top-shelf lobbying clients, including corporate giant General Electric Co.

Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu released her first ad today in her re-election bid, touting her post atop the Energy and Natural Resources Committee as the "most powerful position in the Senate for Louisiana."