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The Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory has named the current division leader of the Condensed Matter and Materials Division at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California as its new director.

In an unexpected partnership, billionaire oil company operator Steve Farris often turns to a bearded Vermont environmentalist for advice.

As a way to shrink its carbon footprint, Swedish furniture giant Ikea plans to introduce a "veg ball" alternative to the popular meatballs it offers alongside its self-assembly furniture.

The Agriculture Department today said it will begin requiring pork producers to report cases of a deadly virus that's sweeping across U.S. pig herds.

Work crews may have discovered the source of radiation that leaked from a federal nuclear waste dump half a mile underground in southeastern New Mexico, authorities said yesterday.

The incoming chief of the Nuclear Energy Agency said small, cheaper underground plants could replace hulking nuclear facilities in the future as the industry struggles with safety concerns stemming from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi disaster.

Russia made its first shipment of oil today from an offshore rig in the Arctic that was the focus of protests leading to the arrest of 30 Greenpeace activists.

House Republicans are gathering information to gauge the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's response to a high-profile data leak about grid vulnerabilities that triggered a federal management alert.

A former BP PLC official who was accused of dumping stock before the public became aware of the severity of the company's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has settled civil charges of insider trading.

A real estate developer yesterday received a 15-month sentence for draining and filling wetlands on a Mississippi property.

A federal appeals court today vacated the part of U.S. EPA's air standards for portland cement kilns that shields violators from civil lawsuits if they exceed the limits during malfunctions.

California's ongoing water shortage is placing new strains on farms and bringing farm owners and workers together in a way rarely seen.

The increasing size and frequency of wildfires across the West over the past three decades indicate a larger problem, not poor management, according to researchers at the University of Utah.

Some of the oldest ice on the planet protects relatively intact soil dating from millions of years ago in Greenland, new research has found.

Despite large-scale losses to the world's biodiversity, new research shows that the number of species in local areas has remained steady over time.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) yesterday jumped into the ongoing fray over management of red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico, calling for more flexibility in federal fisheries law.

The Obama administration has completed the draft environmental analysis of a commercial-scale wind farm project in the foothills of the Tehachapi mountain range, an area that has some of the nation's best wind resources near habitat for California condors and golden eagles.

Voters in southwest Florida will head to the polls Tuesday to anoint the likely successor to ex-Rep. Trey Radel (R), ending a contentious GOP primary in the state's 19th District.

Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) released the first television ad of his re-election campaign yesterday in what is turning out to be one of the nation's toughest races of the year.

Nashville, Tenn., will be able to proceed with a controversial bus rapid transit project known as the Amp despite a newly passed state bill giving the Tennessee General Assembly more say-so over the endeavor, according to backers.

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