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The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service could save close to $100 million annually if it did a better job of taking fuel efficiency into account when awarding mail transportation contracts and prodding companies to use innovative technology, the agency's inspector general concluded in a new report.

As China's market for raw goods cools and prices fall, mining companies are looking to save money every which way.

As ground beef prices rise, demand is quietly increasing for the much-derided product dubbed "pink slime."

Panera Bread is unrolling a plan to remove all artificial additives from its food, ingredient by ingredient, by the end of 2016. That includes artificial preservatives, colors and sweeteners.

The world's first major collaboration between a municipality and a biofuels producer to turn garbage into fuel launched today in Canada.

A miner died Monday in northern Idaho after he was caught between a mine shaft wall and a transportation device, according to federal officials.

Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead (R) voiced his support for increased coal exports during a visit to the site of a proposed export terminal in Longview, Wash., calling it a boost for commerce.

The Bureau of Land Management won't punish a well operator and doesn't immediately plan to clean up oil spilled at Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, according to a report the agency released yesterday. It said the oil was spilled on three separate occasions over the course of 40 years.

Scientists have learned to convert biomass to fuel without pretreatment, a development that could lead to cheaper biofuels.

Oil giant BP PLC continued to press the Supreme Court yesterday to place a hold on settlement payments to Gulf Coast businesses that it says were not harmed by the Deepwater Horizon spill.

A federal appeals court asked U.S. EPA, states, industry groups and other challengers yesterday to weigh in by early next month on their remaining challenges to a program for curbing air pollution that drifts across state lines in light of the Supreme Court recently upholding a key part of the regime.

Environmentalists yesterday filed suit against U.S. EPA for approving a pesticide that could potentially harm nearly 1,400 threatened and endangered species.

Only five years off the endangered species list, California's brown pelicans have biologists worried again.

Kansas is pushing back against new protections for the lesser prairie chicken.

Hatcheries that intend to repopulate waterways with steelhead, sockeye and other salmon could be "pouring money into the ocean" by surrounding their tanks with iron and steel that might disturb the magnetic navigation system that guide fish back to their home streams to spawn.

A coalition of environmental groups say they're upset that the Forest Service has proposed formally establishing more than 3,500 miles of off-road trails in the massive Tonto National Forest just north of Phoenix.

The National Park Service is hoping to repair its relationship with ranchers in a California park, after the agency's fight with a local oyster farm fueled tension and government mistrust.

Keystone XL's attractiveness as a potential terrorist target carries notable and so far undebated national security risks, a former Navy SEAL wrote today in a threat assessment on the pipeline for the advocacy group run by billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer.

Senate Republicans today asked President Obama to pull the plug on U.S. EPA's proposal limiting carbon dioxide from existing power plants or risk sending the country into an economic tailspin driven by costlier, less reliable power.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid blocked Republican legislation today aimed at preventing U.S. EPA from promulgating a proposed rule that would curb greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants.

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