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West Virginia House members introduced legislation yesterday aimed at halting U.S. EPA's bid to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

Utilities that led the march to clean energy sources and efficiency are assessing whether they'll get full credit for their efforts under U.S. EPA's proposed climate change rule for existing power plants.

The unveiling last week of a high-profile U.S. EPA climate rule was accompanied by a media frenzy as Obama administration officials took to the airwaves, the Internet and the phones to rally public support.

An Obama administration study aimed at addressing possible global warming impacts of liquefied natural gas exports managed to add fuel to an already intense debate over possible LNG exports.

The Bureau of Land Management's standoff with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and an armed militia was a dangerous, high-stakes confrontation, but BLM is no stranger to risky business in a still-wild West.

The Obama administration moved quickly yesterday to dismiss claims brought by Marines and their families concerning groundwater pollution at a North Carolina base in light of a new Supreme Court ruling.

Scanners at Prague's Vaclav Havel Airport revealed 47 endangered turtles being smuggled in from Asia.

A London-based oil company has come to an agreement with the World Wildlife Fund not to drill in a national park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that harbors 200 endangered mountain gorillas.

Chile yesterday rejected a proposed $8 billion dam project in Patagonia, drawing praise from environmentalists who called it a major victory.

Farmers, fruit growers and ranchers sued Hawaii County in federal court Monday over a local ban on genetically modified organisms.

Fire investigators think they've found the place where Colorado's most destructive fire first sparked, but they might never know how it happened, a local sheriff said yesterday.

An Indiana police department yesterday began using a chemical that leaves a unique DNA-like signature on property and potential thieves.

Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) signed a controversial bill yesterday launching a new chemical safety program in the state.

States with river systems that enter the Chesapeake Bay have made progress in reducing pollution but are falling short when it comes to cutting back on farm pollution and runoff from metropolitan areas, according to new research.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is making sure California knows he plans to win the competition for Tesla Motors Inc.'s giant battery "gigafactory." Riding in a Tesla electric car, he cruised past California's state Capitol yesterday afternoon.

Climate modeler Gavin Schmidt will take the reins of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, one of the world's foremost climate research institutions, NASA announced Monday.

Tangles of eels have filled the nets and bellies of tribal fishermen along the Columbia River for centuries, but modern nets have nearly gone still.

Technology giant Hewlett-Packard Co. this week debuted an energy-efficient computing system that cools itself using water.

Scientists have singled out five more barrels of radioactive waste that could potentially be explosive after one barrel leak caused the shutdown of the nuclear waste facility in New Mexico since February, the state's environment secretary said yesterday.

Commissioners for the Port of Long Beach in Southern California voted earlier this week to allow two companies, including Oxbow Corp., to lease facilities for the storage of coal and petroleum coke.

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