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More investors are listening to their conscience, rather than looking only at financial prospects, according to the U.S. Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment.

Some of the nation's largest retailers say U.S. EPA's standards for hazardous waste disposal from their stores create unnecessary burdens and are asking for clarification on how they may legally process unsold or expired items that could contain toxic substances.

The Norwegian Coast Guard on Friday removed a Greenpeace ship that had tried to block Statoil ASA from drilling for oil in the Arctic.

The Department of Energy said Friday that safety concerns mean it can't meet a deadline to remove radioactive waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

Former employees at an Arch Coal Inc. mine in West Virginia pocketed lucrative kickbacks in a five-year, $2 million pay-to-play scheme, federal prosecutors charged Friday.

The state of Alaska has moved to intervene in Pebble LP's lawsuit that aims to block U.S. EPA's potential veto of the company's copper and gold mining project in the Bristol Bay region.

Thousands of businesses in Gulf Coast states today urged the Supreme Court to reject BP PLC's request to suspend settlement payments.

The Supreme Court ruled today that the federal government should not have used an international treaty on chemical warfare to prosecute a woman who poisoned her husband's mistress.

The Supreme Court today declined to take up a Pennsylvania power plant's appeal to overturn state penalties for contaminating nearby property.

California's record drought has caused losses around $1.7 billion, researchers said recently. But gold prospectors are looking to strike it rich as lower flows at waterways give them access to areas they haven't been able to reach in decades.

Abu Dhabi's crown prince joined with other international donors yesterday to pledge a total of $80 million to protect at-risk wild cats like tigers.

A $2 billion plan to restore the central Everglades could be stuck in limbo for years.

Protections for a threatened shorebird species are roiling beach towns up and down the East Coast.

Mount Rainier National Park officials yesterday said "there's no certainty" it will be possible to recover the bodies of six climbers likely killed climbing the peak in Washington state.

The Fish and Wildlife Service will finalize protections for a ground-hugging rose found in California and Nevada.

Biofuel companies have brought on top-notch lobby firms as the battle over the renewable fuels standard continues in Washington, D.C.

U.S. EPA's inspector general (IG) touted its successes -- including its investigation into John Beale, the CIA impostor employed by the agency -- in a report released to Congress today.

The Obama administration today threw a potential -- and limited -- lifeline to the country's ailing nuclear industry, highlighting the ability of existing reactors to help states curb emissions.

Coal production and mine employment would decline under the Obama administration's rule proposal for controlling greenhouse gases from existing power plants, according to U.S. EPA's analysis.

Environmentalists and industry groups are doubling down in the aftermath of today's long-awaited proposal for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from existing U.S. power plants.

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