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St. Louis-based Peabody Energy Corp. has launched a new local marketing campaign this week playing up the positive benefits of coal.

The chief of the cleanup operation at an underground nuclear waste facility in New Mexico said recovery efforts could take up to three years.

A woman was killed by a black bear Wednesday at an oil sands site in Canada.

One had the roof, the other the cash. Both wanted to bring solar power out of the suburbs and into underserved areas.

Flanked by hundreds of supporters, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) signed a law yesterday that will make Vermont the first state to require genetically modified foods to be labeled when it takes effect in mid-2016.

A Virginia manufacturer of packaging materials will pay U.S. EPA more than $100,000 to settle suspected violations of hazardous waste regulations, the agency said yesterday.

A tree trimmer whose crew harmed protected shorebirds in Oakland, Calif., said he had "screwed up" after speaking with wildlife officials investigating the incident.

The Fish and Wildlife Service this week published a final rule allowing the reintroduction of wood bison in three areas of the Alaska wilderness.

A crash involving a 20-passenger tour bus, a minivan and a sedan near Grand Canyon National Park injured nine people yesterday afternoon.

The devastating landslide in Washington state that killed more than 40 people last month has renewed concerns about a hillside 15 miles away and the popular campground at its base.

The FBI has opened a criminal investigation into allegations of threats and assaults against law enforcement officers during an April 12 standoff with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and his armed supporters, according to Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie.

A bipartisan pair of House lawmakers yesterday introduced legislation meant to make it easier for the National Park Service to work with outside groups.

Amid a geopolitical crisis that bipartisan proponents of unfettered natural gas exports are using to make their case, 22 senators today called for a closer look at what such moves might do for U.S. consumer prices.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid yesterday blocked the movement in the Senate of House-passed legislation to prevent regulations affecting coal mines and power plants.

The House is expected to vote on a conference report for the "Water Resources Reform and Development Act" when it returns to Washington, D.C., the week of May 19, with the Senate potentially acting on the bill next week, one of the lower chamber's negotiators said this morning.

The House today passed a bill largely along party lines to make permanent a tax credit for research and development without offsets.

DENVER -- The offices of Conservation Colorado's newest effort are nondescript: a single-story beige office building located off the city's busy Federal Boulevard.

The liberal think tank Center for American Progress and the Denver-based Center for Western Priorities today launched a project criticizing politicians who they argue share the views of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy that the federal government should hand over its lands to states and private business.

U.S. EPA today announced that it's looking at ways to achieve disclosure of hydraulic fracturing chemicals.

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