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Corn farmers from around the country are meeting in Washington, D.C., this week to work on policy initiatives and to press legislators and the administration on U.S. EPA's Clean Water Act proposal, the federal renewable fuel standard and other top issues.

A coalition of energy industry groups has hired a top K Street lobbying firm to push for liquefied natural gas export projects.

Farmers in the Chesapeake Bay watershed aren't doing enough to keep fertilizers and sediment out of the bay, according to two new reports that analyzed government water-quality data.

U.S. EPA scientists believe at least 330,000 Americans may be exposed to the toxic chemical trichloroethylene at degreasing facilities and dry cleaning businesses but must work with industry first because forcing companies to stop using the chemical could be costly and take years, according to one of the agency's top officials.

Coal-state lawmakers are plotting a legislative response to an appeals court ruling last week that upheld key Obama administration actions taking aim at Appalachian mountaintop-removal coal mining.

Five days before Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast, weather forecasters predicted its infamous "left hook" -- the sharp turn that drove it straight into the New Jersey shore. That early warning was mostly due to polar-orbiting satellites, the high-tech flecks in the sky that rotate just 600 miles above the Earth's surface. Circling the planet on a north-south orbit, the satellites provide forecasters with high-resolution images and detailed data that their geostationary counterparts miss from a 20,000-mile-high perch. But soon, some of that data could disappear.

A centuries-old British tradition called swan upping is taking place once again this week, but the theme of the annual census has switched from food to conservation.

Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead (R) yesterday announced the launch of a website detailing his energy strategy for the resource-rich state.

National Transportation Safety Board documents released yesterday indicate a small break in the rail line likely derailed a coal train that killed two Maryland college students.

U.S. customs officials seized 67 giant African snails in two picnic baskets at Los Angeles International Airport, officials said yesterday.

Seismic testing off the New Jersey coast could start any day after the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday rejected New Jersey's bid to halt the research.

Tesla Motors Inc. has agreed to pay a Wisconsin man $127,000 to settle what's believed to be the first lemon law claim filed against the company.

Groundwater tainted with gasoline caused a stink that led to a voluntary evacuation of more than 150 homes Sunday outside Philadelphia, officials said yesterday.

On Dec. 9, 2010, brothers James Eugene Fish and Jeffrey Scott Fish went to work at a metals recycling plant in New Cumberland, W.Va., a town along the Ohio River about 40 miles west of Pittsburgh.

U.S. EPA next week will kick off a series of listening sessions on how to implement a controversial provision of a major water law relating to infrastructure financing.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) yesterday backed Holtec International Inc.'s plan to build a nuclear manufacturing facility in Camden, N.J.

Public Service Enterprise Group's closed-down Salem Unit 2 nuclear plant in New Jersey began a restart this weekend and had reached 18 percent of its full power yesterday morning, according to a Nuclear Regulatory Commission status report.

Protests against hydraulic fracturing yesterday outside the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission building in Washington, D.C., ended with the arrest of 24 demonstrators.

The nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is "generally maintained" to keep it ready to release crude oil in the event of an unforeseen supply shock but needs further maintenance to meet maximum goals, the Energy Department's independent inspector general said in an audit released today.

Eight of the 10 states in the Lower 48 ranked as producing the highest monthly energy bills have some of the lowest electricity prices in the nation, according to a Greenwire analysis of a report released yesterday from a leading personal and small business finance website.

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