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Thirty-five million gallons of potentially urine-tainted water in a Portland, Ore., reservoir will be diverted to an empty reservoir instead of sent down the drain.

U.S. EPA announced the offer today of $9 million in grants for clean diesel projects aimed at cutting emissions from diesel engines, such as those found in trucks, locomotives and buses.

In a bid to offset the energy used to make its M&Ms, Uncle Ben's rice and other products, Mars Inc. has partnered with a Tokyo-based trading company on a 200-megawatt wind farm in Texas.

Two workers died and another nine suffered minor injuries in an explosion at a West Texas oil field yesterday, local police said.

Dutch authorities have detained 31 Greenpeace activists who tried to block an oil tanker from docking at the Rotterdam Port.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials have agreed to review a request from 34 environmental groups calling on the agency to take a closer look at the potential dangers of storing hot, radioactive spent reactor fuel in wet pools across the country.

An accidental discovery by the Alaska Earthquake Center revealed that the powerful seismology tracking network has been capturing important data for decades that glacier scientists could use to track ice loss events.

A grand jury has indicted five people in what prosecutors say was a family-led scheme to defraud the BP PLC compensation fund for victims of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

A Florida group yesterday filed suit against the Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to respond to a petition to downlist the manatee.

A California court has rejected environmentalists' suit against the expansion of a landfill that was the subject of a debate over whether counties can bar out-of-county waste from their landfills.

A West Virginia federal judge yesterday faulted Consol Energy Inc. for what he called illegal discharges of the chemical element selenium into state waterways.

A contentious Bureau of Land Management planning process along the Red River in Texas threatens to raise some of the same thorny issues that Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy has protested.

A wildfire ran unchecked through drought-stricken Southern California yesterday, threatening homes in the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains as fire crews dealt with conditions usually reserved for the fire season's end.

The Forest Service this month plans to begin identifying areas of national forests for future timber projects using new environmental streamlining authority in the farm bill.

The Senate Judiciary Committee today for the fourth time delayed a markup of the so-called patent troll bill, but lawmakers praised bipartisan efforts to finalize the proposal and said they plan to bring it up for a vote next week.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee's senior Democrats again requested a hearing on climate science, this time to mull the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's recent report showing that damaging climate change may soon be unavoidable.

House Democrats are attempting to revive an approach to mobilizing private financing for clean energy projects by establishing a national green bank.

Senate Republicans are urging the White House to resist a lawsuit aimed at requiring the administration to finish work on one of its long-delayed environmental goals -- a new governmentwide guidance for how agencies should incorporate climate change into their implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act.

Congress needs to act to promote competition in an increasingly consolidated freight railroad industry, more than two dozen corporations and trade groups said in a letter to leading lawmakers.

California lawmakers are advancing bills that would regulate crude oil shipments by train and require utilities to use more clean electricity and efficiency measures.

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