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Almost half of all Americans, more than 147 million people, live in counties where the air quality, specifically the ozone or particle pollution, is unhealthy, according to the annual State of the Air report issued today by the American Lung Association.

The world's largest restaurant company announced this week that it will try to connect with sustainability-conscious consumers by boosting its recycling and setting high standards for how it sources its ingredients and supplies.

Three big companies that have placed bets on turning agricultural waste into transportation fuel say they're on track to open production facilities this year.

Monsanto Co. yesterday pledged to advance sustainable agriculture through increasing water and nutrient efficiency at farm operations.

A consortium of Chinese and local investors snapped up the world's largest coal export terminal in the Australian state of New South Wales as the province tries to balance its budget by privatizing assets.

Twenty-seven acres of the North Slope in Alaska was sprayed when strong winds carried an oily mist caused by a pipeline failure across a swath of snow-covered tundra.

Germany would ship radioactive waste to a storage site in South Carolina under a plan proposed by the Energy Department, newly revealed documents show.

Nuclear energy giant Exelon Corp. has agreed to buy the Washington, D.C.-based utility Pepco Holdings Inc. in a deal reportedly worth $6.8 billion.

A former municipal utility executive who pioneered a new way to reward customers for the carbon-reduction benefits of roof-top solar energy will take the helm of the Pace Energy and Climate Center, the think tank announced yesterday.

The state regulators that will play a leading role in implementing U.S. EPA's greenhouse gas rules for existing power plants are putting the finishing touches on guidelines for how the rule should handle state energy efficiency programs.

U.S. EPA's deputy general counsel is joining a Washington, D.C., law firm as a partner.

A federal appeals court yesterday rejected an environmental group's challenge to the Forest Service, allowing trees to be cleared for ski runs at the Snowmass ski resort near Aspen, Colo.

A veteran U.S. EPA official has asked a federal appeals court to reconsider its decision to halt his whistleblowing retaliation lawsuit against the agency.

A federal judge indicated yesterday that she intends to side with advocacy groups trying to force U.S. EPA to set new standards for ozone air pollution by October 2015.

A giant Alaska tourist attraction is up for sale: an 80-foot-high, 105-foot-wide urethane igloo just off the Parks Highway en route to Denali National Park and Preserve.

National Park Service search-and-rescue crews have recovered the body of a Flagstaff, Ariz., woman 400 feet below where she fell Monday from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.

The Forest Service expects to again run out of funding to fight wildfires this summer, forcing it to return to Congress pleading for more cash, Chief Tom Tidwell said today.

A group of federal biologists, engineers and administrators gathered yesterday in a small room in the Interior Department to celebrate a decidedly bureaucratic accomplishment: the use of Section 7(a)(1) of the Endangered Species Act.

The American Petroleum Institute has selected a top Democratic strategist for its No. 2 spot.

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx urged members of a rail travel advocacy group yesterday to get behind the Obama administration's newly unveiled transportation bill at the start of what is likely to be a contentious campaign to turn legislation into law.

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