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The American Petroleum Institute announced a new digital ad campaign today that aims to show public support for fossil fuel development, a response to election-year ballot initiatives aimed at curtailing oil and gas drilling in some states and cities.

TransCanada Corp. today linked arms with Missouri's Democratic attorney general and a Democratic-aligned union to tout a program that positions military veterans for possible construction employment on Keystone XL, striking a positive note while the Canadian government jabbed at former President Carter over his opposition to the controversial oil sands crude pipeline.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) says he's keeping his options open for 2016, including the possibility of leaving Congress, a spokesman said in a statement today.

U.S. EPA chief Gina McCarthy and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz will throw out the first pitch at Fenway Park in front of tens of thousands of fans Tuesday night as the Boston Red Sox prepare to take on their biggest rivals, the New York Yankees.

Fossil fuels states met yesterday and today in Bismarck, N.D., to swap ideas about how to protect their states' economic and energy interests from what they fear could be the harmful effects of U.S. EPA's upcoming existing power plant carbon dioxide rule.

WAKEFIELD, Va. -- This tiny crossroads town, roughly halfway between Richmond and Norfolk, calls itself the Peanut Capital of the World.

Americans of color are exposed to 38 percent more nitrogen dioxide (NO2) outdoor air pollution than white people, according to a new study that finds the differences persist even among income levels.

Heavyweight industry groups are lobbying the White House to scale back the administration's plans to overhaul a controversial George W. Bush-era hazardous waste regulation.

Over the past week, the Bureau of Land Management's Facebook page has become a target for anti-government vitriol -- including death threats to the agency's employees.

Today, farmers and ranchers can freely do any number of things on their property affecting rivers, creeks and wetlands that no other sector could undertake without going to the federal government for permission. Under a major regulatory proposal being pushed by U.S. EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers that wouldn’t change -- but some major farm groups are vowing to kill the plan. The main concerns appear to be less about what federal regulators are proposing now than what both farmers and environmentalists expect could come next.

Facing burgeoning public rage over "cancer villages and poisonous rice," the Chinese government has released a study of the condition of the country's farmland. The results showed that nearly one-fifth of China's agricultural soil is contaminated with toxic metals, with cadmium, nickel and arsenic topping the list.

Japan will roll forward with a severely scaled-down version of its annual whaling campaign in the northwest Pacific Ocean, officials said today, despite media reports yesterday that the hunt might be scuttled (Greenwire, April 17).

West Virginia officials yesterday announced an additional $1.2 million in funding yesterday that more than doubles the Division of Tourism's budget for its annual spring advertising campaign, as the state struggles to repair its reputation from a chemical leak earlier this year in time for the summer tourist season.

A California state lawmaker introduced legislation yesterday that would help emergency responders get more information about crude oil trains traveling through the state.

The mayor of West, Texas, said yesterday that local officials are considering building a fertilizer plant to replace the one that exploded a year ago and killed 15 people.

New Jersey researchers say a new study provides support for industry claims that antibacterial soaps are beneficial for consumers, even as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration considers how to regulate the chemicals and some health officials express alarm about the soaps.

The man accused of peeing into Portland, Ore.'s drinking supply said he urinated near a reservoir, not into it.

A major regulatory proposal from the Obama administration aimed at clarifying which streams, creeks and wetlands receive protection under the Clean Water Act is slated to open for public comment Monday.

Despite considerable progress, only about 20 percent of some 60,000 miles of track routes will be fully equipped with anti-crash communications technology by a December 2015 deadline, the Association of American Railroads said in an update this week on the status of so-called "positive train control" implementation.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says he doesn't have the "sizzle" to run for president.

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