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A long time ago, not too far away, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx found inspiration in a story focused more on spaceships than on cars and trains.

U.S. EPA awarded a Baltimore AmeriCorps program $200,000 to turn 72 city residents into environmental cleanup professionals.

Toyota Motor Corp. representatives said yesterday that the company will focus on making cars that run on hydrogen fuel cells and will not renew its battery-supply deal with Tesla Motors Inc.

Genetically modified corn could one day be harvested from the most unlikely of places: former mines and caves.

Oil workers yesterday were struggling to secure a well that went out of control Friday and has released an unknown quantity of oil, gas and water in North Dakota.

Two miners are dead after a ground failure at a West Virginia coal mine, according to an email today from officials at the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration.

U.S. EPA has reached a settlement with Chevron Corp.'s pipeline unit over two oil spills in Utah.

NEW YORK -- Federal energy regulators have approved projects that would increase the amount of natural gas flowing into the Big Apple by next winter.

Billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer's former hedge fund helped finance coal project acquisitions in Indonesia and Australia valued at more than $2 billion during his time there, according to company disclosures and interviews. He's under fire from conservative critics who accuse him of hypocrisy.

A federal appeals court today rejected a coal company's challenge to an Interior Department fee levied on mined coal destined for export.

Federal appellate judges today rejected an environmental group's bid to force U.S. EPA into regulating a host of potentially harmful air pollution emissions from coal mines.

A federal judge in Ohio has dismissed a coal company's lawsuit against The Huffington Post and one of its bloggers for defamation and invasion of privacy.

A lone wolf that captured media attention after wandering into California may no longer be lone.

The head of the Bureau of Land Management said yesterday that people who broke the law during an April 12 confrontation between the agency and Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy "will be held accountable." BLM was trying to seize Bundy's cattle over his failure to pay an estimated $1 million in grazing violations, fines Bundy called unconstitutional. The roundup was called off over threats of violence.

Federal officials have decided to remove the Pacific walrus from a list of animals that have been affected by a mysterious skin lesion disease.

U.S. EPA is working to reduce the effects of pesticides on migratory birds that are protected by federal law, agency representatives said today.

The United Mine Workers of America is expressing "qualified support" for the Obama administration's new rule to protect miners from black lung disease.

Mining companies have joined industries pressing U.S. EPA to review a proposed rule on the recycling and reuse of hazardous waste.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said yesterday he expects to be re-elected to his post when House Republicans vote in November, but he didn't give a firm answer on whether he'd finish his next term.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today indicated that several Obama administration nominees for key energy and environment posts could sail smoothly through the upper chamber.

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