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A new television ad accuses West Virginia Democratic Rep. Nick Rahall of orchestrating a war against his state's coal industry and miners.

Industry groups are pushing back against a decision by one of the nation's largest nonprofit hospital chains to stop purchasing furniture containing flame retardants.

The fight over a potential $11.1 billion ballot measure that would help fund a major water project in California heated up yesterday, as a new political action committee vowed to stop it.

Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) has introduced a bill to phase out microbeads, plastic particles that are increasingly found in the nation's waterways to the growing concern of environmentalists.

House Republicans and Democrats voiced concerns to the Department of Agriculture's top environmental official today about an interpretive rule that they say is confusing, is risky and lacks input from the agriculture community.

The House Natural Resources Committee today easily passed nine lands bills, including a measure aimed at simplifying fees for owning cabins in national forests.

U.S. EPA is attempting to seize control of the nation's power grid with its new proposal for existing power plant carbon dioxide emissions, GOP House Energy and Commerce Committee members charged today.

Murray Energy Corp., one of the country's largest coal companies, yesterday took a pre-emptive strike against U.S. EPA's proposed rules to control greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants.

The nine Northeastern states that participate in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative hailed U.S. EPA's proposed carbon rule for existing power plants that would let them comply through their interstate cap-and-trade emissions system.

Federal energy regulators today signed off on a politically popular plan that allows California's grid manager to pioneer the first, voluntary "real time" energy market and share its electricity resources with five Western states.

A threatened White House veto led Democratic appropriators to punt a $34 billion energy and water spending bill today, adding to the pile of appropriations legislation stuck in limbo amid Republican attempts to force votes on controversial Obama administration policies ahead of the November elections.

The chief of the Chemical Safety Board came under siege on Capitol Hill today as he was accused of running a highly dysfunctional agency, and the top House watchdog urged him to step down.

EnergyWire's electric utilities reporter Rod Kuckro spent last week speaking with the country's top investor-owned utility CEOs at the Edison Electric Institute's annual meeting. What did they have to say about the evolving utility business model and the challenges posed by U.S. EPA's existing power plant proposal? On today's The Cutting Edge, Kuckro gives a behind-the-scenes look at his coverage and conversations with the industry's leading decisionmakers.

Two farmers today protested the lack of government help for livestock abandoned in areas with restricted access due to fears of radiation from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan.

Missouri's attorney general has reached a deal with the owners of a St. Louis-area landfill that has spewed a foul smell across a suburb for months.

Ten guns are still unaccounted for after an audit recently found the North Dakota Game and Fish Department failed to properly inventory guns used in the agency's volunteer hunter education program, a spokesman said Wednesday.

Utah wildlife officials are reconsidering last week's decision to auction off 1,070 publicly owned acres in a canyon east of Salt Lake City.

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) has asked U.S. EPA to investigate thousands of tons of contaminated materials that were dumped in at least three sites in Islip, N.Y., including one where new homes were being constructed for veterans.