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The Supreme Court today declined to review a nearly $105 million judgment against Exxon Mobil Corp. for contaminating New York City water.

An osprey named Rodney returned to his Washington, D.C., nest last week after completing a 3,000-mile flight from his wintering grounds in Venezuela, according to conservationists tracking the migration habits of Rodney and another osprey named Ron. Ron returned a couple of days earlier from his journey to Brazil.

President Obama tomorrow will visit Oso, Wash., one month after a landslide that killed 39 people.

Efforts to regulate genetically modified crops in Hawaii have made the island's farms a flash point in a national debate on the role of technology in agriculture.

More than $1 billion of rebuilding aid that New York and New Jersey planned to spend on infrastructure projects and repairing homes damaged by Superstorm Sandy may be destined for other disasters.

Wet weather has allowed California to slightly increase the amount of water it will deliver to farmers grappling with drought, officials announced last week.

Former Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) has registered his first lobbying clients, including a biofuels company.

U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy will mark Earth Day this week by taking to the road to stoke public support for the president's Climate Action Plan.

U.S. EPA's staff is getting squeezed to its lowest level in decades, and former agency bosses are worried.

A senior federal official ignored the advice of her scientists and state partners in agreeing to a pharmaceutical company's request to move a pollution monitor farther from its factory, according to an internal Fish and Wildlife Service investigation that found multiple violations of the Interior Department's scientific integrity policy.

The Obama administration finalized $6.5 billion worth of loan guarantees for the country's first U.S. reactors in decades without requiring developers to pay a "credit subsidy fee" -- money that protects taxpayers should the developers default, according to documents obtained by Greenwire.

In February 2011, Rep. Robert Hurt (R-Va.) voted for an amendment by Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) to slash funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund by 90 percent in the House's spending bill. But the next year, Hurt urged the Forest Service to use LWCF money to acquire a 292-acre tract of privately owned forest in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests, a proposal he said was strongly backed by hikers on the Appalachian Trail. Over the past five years, Hurt and more than a dozen other Republicans have privately lobbied federal land management agencies to support LWCF projects in their districts, according to a records request to the agencies from Greenwire. It's a break from conventional GOP wisdom that land acquisitions and other conservation spending are an unnecessary luxury for a nation mired in $17 trillion in debt.

Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the Obama administration's Mercury and Air Toxics rule. How significant is this win for U.S. EPA? What is the impact of the ruling on future air regulations coming out of the agency? During today's OnPoint, James Rubin, counsel in the global energy, transport and infrastructure sector at Dentons and a former Department of Justice representative to the White House Climate Change Task Force, breaks down the ruling and its significance.

China has submitted new environmental legislation to the country's parliament, the first change to the law in a quarter-century, official news agency Xinhua said late yesterday.

The Blackleaf Wildlife Management Area in Montana will expand to encompass 320 acres of critical grizzly habitat after the state's Land Board yesterday approved a $345,000 land purchase from the Conservation Fund.

An often-overlooked aspect of tornado response comes well after the twister has left the area: cleaning up the mountains of waste left behind.

Employees at a DuPont Co. chemical plant in Belle, W.Va., reported a small chemical leak yesterday, officials said.

Washington state has halted a program that put prisoners to work removing asbestos-containing material for 23 years, The News Tribune reported yesterday.

The world's largest technology company has laid out plans to become more environmentally friendly just in time for Earth Day.

Wichita Falls, Texas, is getting ready to become the first U.S. city to use treated sewage as drinking water as it copes with a growing drought in the state.

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