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The Obama administration this week quietly stopped collecting fees that have propped up a nuclear waste program strangled by politics.

A federal appeals court has granted U.S. EPA's requests to allow the agency to take another look at several air standards for industrial boilers and power plants in order to justify the statistical methods used in the rules.

Groups skilled in opposition research and separate from the traditional political parties have bombarded U.S. EPA and other federal agencies with Freedom of Information Act requests.

How do the solar industry's various competing business model concepts fit into the United States' utility evolution? During today's OnPoint, John Berger, co-founder and CEO of Sunnova Energy Corp., discusses his company's role in expanding residential solar and the challenges facing the industry as net metering is debated around the country.

A popular Japanese manga has sparked a debate about the effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

China is battling to preserve ancient Buddhist statues damaged by coal dust and acid rain.

Turkish authorities have arrested at least three mining executives and detained 25 people after an initial examination showed safety warnings were ignored leading up to the worst mining accident in Turkey's history.

A meteor that struck around 74 million years ago could be the reason a small Iowa town has failed three times to drill a new water well.

As underground water levels drop, state-ordered pollution pumping removed 3.3 billion gallons from Minneapolis-area aquifers in 2012.

With Americans throwing away millions of tons of food every year, federal agencies, producers, cities, universities and citizens are looking for solutions that will send less to the landfill.

An influential environmental group in the South has criticized a mining company's move to create a riverfront nature preserve near Columbia, S.C., saying it isn't nearly enough to compensate for plans to dig what would be the biggest gold mine in the eastern United States.

Sailors training for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro may want to avoid falling into the city's notoriously dirty water, as the sport's governing body plans to conduct independent water-quality tests to quell mounting concerns.

Pregnant women exposed to air pollution in their second trimester might be giving birth to babies with elevated risks of developing asthma in early childhood, a new study found.

Several universities in Southern California are competing to land the California Air Resources Board's planned new motor vehicle emissions laboratory.

Fisker Automotive Inc.'s billionaire owner said he plans to produce electric cars in the United States.

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz talked about the benefits of clean energy during a weekend trip through the Northeast and touted Vermont's embrace of clean energy as a model for the nation.

The Bureau of Land Management today named Ruth Welch as the agency's Colorado state director, a role that oversees 8.3 million acres of public lands in the Centennial State and requires a political tightrope walk between energy development and conservation.

A radiation leak at an underground nuclear dump in New Mexico likely originated with a container of waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory, authorities said Friday.

An environmental group is formally challenging a planned federal oil and natural gas lease sale in north-central Nevada in advance of the Silver State gearing up for what some believe is a potential shale oil boom.

A Mississippi court last week tossed a couple's lawsuit against Exxon Mobil Corp., ruling that the oil giant can't control the wild alligators living on a dump site it owns in Centreville, Miss.

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