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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) yesterday called those who protested the Bureau of Land Management's roundup of hundreds of cattle owned by rancher Cliven Bundy in southern Nevada last week "domestic terrorists."

Some top technology firms are expressing concern about U.S. EPA's proposed rules to limit power plant carbon emissions, questioning whether they will truly encourage innovation.

One of the wildest Greenpeace protests in recent memory began with a tweet posted by the organization at 5:34 p.m., Sept. 17, 2013: "BREAKING: we've got 4 boats in the water heading towards Gazprom's Arctic rig. We're going to try and stop the drilling #savethearctic." Despite the social media buzz around the activists who were eventually arrested, dubbed the Arctic 30, and the useful information it generated, Greenpeace failed to focus the narrative around climate change. Gazprom is still drilling away. Social media efforts like Greenpeace's could be the next big thing, or they might get lost in a sea of likes and retweets and leave the status quo unchanged.

In the absence of federal action, could the future of clean energy finance be in state and local bond markets? During today's OnPoint, Mark Muro, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the policy director of the Metropolitan Policy Program, discusses a new paper on state and local capabilities to finance clean energy development through the use of public finance bonds.

Elephants are facing increasing risks from ivory poaching in Zimbabwe as political and military leaders seize protected areas in one of the animal's few remaining bastions in Africa, research shows.

During his 2008 campaign for the job, Washington state's top logging regulator promised to restore faith in his office by refusing to take campaign contributions from the timber industry as his opponent did.

The Mississippi River will likely carry enough sand to supply wetland restoration efforts in Louisiana for at least the next 600 years, according to a new paper.

The slow pace of a landslide above a Wyoming resort town doesn't diminish the threat it poses to dozens of homes and business.

California might delay new diesel emission rules to give small trucking companies more time to comply with the law.

Some beekeepers in California are blaming pesticides for damage to nearly 80,000 bee colonies that recently pollinated almond trees in the San Joaquin Valley.

Researchers from North Carolina State University say farmers should be safe to use water from the Dan River for livestock and to water crops.

The Obama administration saved about half-a-billion dollars by ceasing the Energy Department's activities at the now-abandoned Yucca Mountain repository in Nevada -- but those savings were temporary and costs are now piling up without a waste solution, DOE's inspector general found.

Wegmans Food Markets Inc. has jumped into the growing battle over labeling products containing genetically modified organisms. It wants the Food and Drug Administration to mandate labeling of non-GMO foods and create a certification program for new foods that do contain GMOs.

Two environmental groups are highlighting the Highway Trust Fund's money woes as another argument against proceeding with a $5.4 billion interstate highway project near Birmingham, Ala.

Amid a statewide debate on whether to ban current environmental building standards for schools, researchers in Ohio are investigating whether attending a "green school" actually helps children learn.

A Tijeras, N.M., cement plant is seeking permits to burn tires to fuel its operations. It would be the first plant in the state to use tire-derived fuel.

The dispute over the Hanford nuclear site continues as Washington state and the federal government both rejected each other's cleanup proposals.

Dozens of environmental and public interest groups are calling on U.S. EPA to suspend contracts again with oil and gas giant BP PLC.

Producing biofuels from cornstalks, husks and other agricultural wastes will increase greenhouse gas emissions compared to gasoline, according to a new Department of Energy-backed study.

Minnesota state leaders are promising to appeal a key federal court decision that last week invalidated a 2007 anti-coal law in closely watched litigation about the nation's energy future.

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