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The end of the line came too soon for an Arizona environmental activist who died waiting to testify at the state Capitol yesterday.

The Senate wants to boost the budget of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, though not to the level the Obama administration requested.

A Senate Appropriations subcommittee swiftly approved a fiscal 2015 transportation spending bill this morning that is more generous in some respects than a rival House measure but falls far short of the Obama administration's request, according to an official summary released after the markup.

Former Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham has partnered with Potomac Research Group (PRG) to advise the firm's investor clients on the energy sector.

As voters head to the polls for today's primaries, Montana Democratic Sen. John Walsh is staying cautious about U.S. EPA's proposal to police greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants.

President Obama trumpeted his administration's proposed greenhouse gas rules in Poland today as he called for the United States and the European Union to set global examples for slashing emissions.

The Senate's top Republican today compared U.S. EPA's new proposal for existing power plant carbon dioxide emissions to another perennial GOP target -- Obamacare.

U.S. EPA is estimating that its long-awaited rule for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants will also substantially reduce conventional pollutants.

Far from the Capitol Hill rhetoric about the Obama administration's "war on coal," some fossil-heavy companies actually appear open to considering the U.S. EPA's carbon-curbing rule for existing power plants released yesterday.

The sweeping proposal to limit the power sector's contribution to climate change unveiled yesterday could pay dividends for states that embraced wind and solar power early on.

California has long said that it didn't want to go it alone running a cap-and-trade program to force down the carbon emissions blamed for climate change. Now there's renewed talk that it could have imitators or even partners.

As states and industry carefully analyze this week's U.S. EPA proposal to regulate carbon emissions from existing power plants, what are the coal industry's plans for lobbying within states on the economics and politics of the plan? During today's OnPoint, Hal Quinn, president and CEO of the National Mining Association, reacts to EPA's proposed rule and talks about his industry's plans for the next stages heading to a final rule.

Permanently dealing with a slow-moving landslide threatening homes and businesses below will be tricky and costly -- with a price tag between $8 million and $25 million, a geologist told the Wyoming resort town of Jackson.

Utah set a Dec. 31 deadline for the federal government to relinquish millions of acres of public land to the state, but it will watch that date fly by without a lawsuit or solid plan of action.

Workers who clean chemical containers for a living say TDI, or toluene diisocyanate, is one of the most difficult chemicals to remove because it hardens instantly when it's exposed to air or water.

A large fire broke out late last night at a chemical plant in the Netherlands operated by Royal Dutch Shell PLC, with local media reporting many residents heard blasts and saw flames soaring into the night sky.

U.S. EPA said yesterday it had traced gritty clouds of dust blowing around Chicago's Southeast Side to KCBX Terminals Inc.'s petroleum coke mounds, contradicting months of denials by the company that it was to blame for the problem.

A dust-storm-ridden Arizona county has brought its air pollution in line with federal standards for the first time in decades.

Ford Motor Co. yesterday unveiled two projects aimed at improving vehicle efficiency.

Tesla Motors Inc. will prepare multiple sites but won't make a decision about the location of its first battery "gigafactory" until the end of the year, the company's chief Elon Musk said yesterday at its annual shareholder meeting.

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