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The White House today threatened to veto a bipartisan House proposal to replace the current executive branch permitting system for cross-border oil and power projects such as Keystone XL with a 120-day deadline for agency approval.

Senate Finance Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) unveiled legislation this morning to keep the Highway Trust Fund solvent through December with a $9 billion shot in the arm to be paid for by tighter enforcement of tax laws and other means.

Accusing U.S. EPA of using "secret" science to justify regulations, House Republicans today advanced legislation to force the agency to make its data more transparent.

Environmentalists who for years have been pushing to retire coal-fired power plant are now wringing their hands over what they say is an expensive and potentially dangerous downside: dozens of largely unused coal ash dumps.

Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer today stepped back into the Capitol Hill spotlight with a new report on climate change's economic risks that netted him a White House sit-down and fresh jabs from Republicans as well as industry.

Many coal mines won't be required to obtain Clean Air Act permits following yesterday's Supreme Court ruling on U.S. EPA permitting for greenhouse gases under its 2010 tailoring rule.

In announcing the majority opinion for the Supreme Court's ruling yesterday on U.S. EPA's permitting for greenhouse gases, Justice Antonin Scalia -- no friend of EPA -- gave the agency a pat on the back. "EPA is getting almost everything it wanted in this case," the conservative justice said from the bench.

What does this week's Supreme Court ruling on greenhouse gas emissions mean for the future of regulations coming out of U.S. EPA? During today's OnPoint, Thomas Lorenzen, a partner at Dorsey & Whitney and the former assistant chief in the Environment and Natural Resources Division at the Department of Justice, explains why he believes EPA has cause to be concerned about the ruling's implications on its existing source proposal. He also discusses his expectations for how the agency will address specific issues the justices raised as it responds to comments on the existing source rule.

The Japanese government this week said residents of the areas hardest hit by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster can return to their homes by 2021, but other officials called that estimate "too optimistic."

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (D) and the Clean Energy Trust are offering a $4.6 million helping hand to energy startups in the state. Today they announced the creation of a revolving equity fund.

Utah's efforts to conserve agricultural lands are coming up short, according to a new report from the state's legislative auditor general.

Few Republican bills have made it through California's Democrat-dominated Legislature, but lawmakers on both sides have united to try to save a Southern California staple: beach bonfires.

Charleston, W.Va.'s airport is disputing a class-action complaint filed in federal court last week alleging the facility played a role in the chemical spill in the Elk River earlier this year.

Lake Erie will continue to experience massive harmful toxic algae blooms for the next century, experts say.

The largest homebuilder in Utah has agreed to pay a $250,000 fine and address a "pattern of failures" related to stormwater runoff from construction sites.

Albertsons LLC must pay more than $3 million to settle a lawsuit from California agencies accusing the grocery chain of illegal disposal, transportation, storage and mismanagement of hazardous waste at its 188 locations across the state.

U.S. EPA is seeking to better track the movements of used electronic waste around the world.

More than half of commercial nursery plants contain neonicotinoids, a class of pesticides that has been linked to mortality of bees, a report released today from the environmental group Friends of the Earth found.

The Department of Energy announced final energy efficiency standards for furnace fans today, the one-year anniversary of the release of President Obama's Climate Action Plan.

The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition released recommendations today on how to leverage farm bill programs for climate benefits.

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