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The North Carolina Legislature may approve legislation as soon as today that would nullify a recent Supreme Court ruling's effect on lawsuits brought by Marines seeking damages for exposure to contaminated water while stationed at a U.S. base.

U.S. EPA is trying to walk back comments made by Administrator Gina McCarthy on national television late last week that suggested the agency really is waging a "war on coal."

President Obama signaled his administration's shift toward ocean conservation today with a proposal that could create the nation's largest-ever marine sanctuary and establish a comprehensive plan to combat illegal fishing.

How will the Department of Energy's proposed changes to its process for reviewing liquefied natural gas export applications to countries without free-trade agreements impact projects currently under review and future project proposals? During today's OnPoint, David Goldwyn, president of Goldwyn Global Strategies and a nonresident senior fellow with the Energy Security Initiative at the Brookings Institution, talks about how the changes will impact the pace of approvals and long-term prospects for exporting LNG. Goldwyn, who served as the State Department's special envoy and coordinator for international energy affairs from 2009 to 2011, also weighs in on congressional efforts to expedite the LNG export project approval process.

Julian Koenig, an advertising writer who helped come up with the original Earth Day campaign, died Thursday. He was 93.

Cleanup workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in Japan may rely on an obscure particle to help surmount a key hurdle in the recovery effort.

Government officials said a pipeline explosion in central Ukraine yesterday might have been an act of sabotage.

The Iraqi army said today it has retaken the nation's largest oil refinery and killed 40 militants after Reuters reported that insurgents had largely taken control of the Beiji plant.

Research efforts are just beginning in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge as the massive Funny River Horse Trail fire dies down.

Arizona lawmakers made a plan to make a plan this year to reduce the risk of wildfire on state trust lands. Critics saw the move as yet another failure to address the threat to lives and property in Arizona's dusty wildlands.

Residents in the Charleston, W.Va., area used around 20 million water bottles after a chemical spill contaminated their drinking water earlier this year. An estimated 17 million of those bottles ended up in landfills, illustrating the shortfalls of the nation's rural recycling systems.

Four San Francisco-area stores are participating in a new "foam exchange" program to help customers remove flame retardant chemicals from their couches.

One of Oregon's largest vineyard supply companies will stop selling certain herbicides that can accidentally drift onto other farms.

A red substance that spilled into the Mohawk River in upstate New York last month, contaminating a municipal sewer system, was just latex paint, according to the federal military facility originally considered responsible.

A battery recycling company near Los Angeles that has been under fire since last year for polluting the air with arsenic and lead has one more chance to get a permit to handle hazardous waste.

Increased runoff caused water containing arsenic to flow into an Idaho creek from an old gold mine tunnel for the past two months.

A bill in New Jersey is nearing approval that would let Tesla Motors Inc. sell its cars directly to consumers.

A coalition of industry interests is asking the Department of Energy for more time to review a plan that would prioritize natural gas export projects that have already passed several environmental reviews.

The Oakland, Calif., City Council yesterday approved a resolution opposing the transport of fossil fuels, including oil and coal, through its jurisdiction.

The American Petroleum Institute urged the Obama administration today to quickly complete the rule setting this year's biofuel requirements.

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