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A recent proposal to roll back federal renewable fuel mandates would undermine the Obama administration's efforts to address climate change, the biofuels industry told President Obama today.

Twenty-three governors, including several opponents of U.S. EPA carbon dioxide regulations for existing power plants, have asked the agency to take full advantage of wind energy when promulgating its upcoming rule.

Some coal mines will be required to get permits for greenhouse gas emissions under U.S. EPA's tailoring rule, the agency said this week.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) this morning blamed the "obstructionist" wing of Republicans for imperiling a popular energy efficiency bill that appears set to fail amid broader procedural squabbling and claimed that Republicans who had worked on the bill asked him to block amendments to it.

A plan to end presidential authority over pipelines and other border-crossing energy projects, such as the contentious Keystone XL, is headed to the House floor after two Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats joined a united GOP in approving it.

CRAIG, Colo. -- The fate of the greater sage grouse lies largely in the hands of ranchers like Wes McStay, whose efforts to preserve the charismatic bird are being replicated across the West. But the clock is ticking on the Obama administration’s court-ordered listing decision, and some fear the effort will be too little, too late.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is scheduled to consider President Obama's pick to lead the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission during a May 20 hearing. What are the senators preparing to ask Norman Bay and how contentious could the hearing become? During today's The Cutting Edge, E&E Daily reporter Hannah Northey gives a behind-the-scenes look at the questions surrounding Bay's nomination and possible outcomes of his confirmation proceedings.

China yesterday defended its right to place an oil rig off the Vietnamese coast and warned Vietnam to end the two countries' dispute over contested parts of the South China Sea.

South Carolina lawmakers yesterday passed a bill that would weaken the state's ban on new sea walls in a move that could lead to more beachfront development.

The nation's top coal-producing state recently became the first to reject new K-12 science standards, largely over concerns about children being taught the validity of climate change.

Many of the regulatory gaps that contributed to the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, last year that killed 15 people also exist at Arizona's fertilizer facilities, according to a review by the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting and ABC15 Investigators.

A report from a team of experts hired by West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin (D) suggested re-evaluating cleanup goals set in the wake of a chemical spill in the Elk River earlier this year that contaminated 300,000 residents' water.

A three-alarm fire damaged a Pennsylvania chemical plant yesterday, and solar panels on the roof complicated firefighters' efforts.

A single herbicide-resistant weed is capable of swiftly overtaking cotton fields, according to a new Arkansas study highlighting the risks of weeds that have become immune to herbicides.

Scientists searching for genes that cause resistance to antibiotics found them everywhere they looked, according to a new study.

Insecticides applied to corn and soybean seeds are at the root of the recent collapse in honeybee colonies, according to a new study in the ongoing debate over pesticides' contribution to bee deaths.

Missouri yesterday became the latest state to consider banning direct sales of Tesla Motors Inc.'s electric cars to consumers.

Infrastructure-related employment accounts for 1 in 10 jobs in the United States, according to a new Brookings Institution study that seeks both to attach a firm definition to the concept and broaden it beyond the stereotype of a construction worker in a hard hat.

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy hasn't forgotten her hometown roots.

U.S. EPA's inspector general found that the agency took months to provide fish contamination data that could have helped protect public health, according to a report released today.

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