Greenwire

Tension is mounting in California over shrinking farmland as solar developers, oil companies and the state's planned bullet train fight for open space.

As states, industry and other stakeholders prepare their public comments to U.S. EPA on the agency's proposed existing power plant regulations, how much flexibility has been built into the rule and how much power do states have to either make or break the regulations? During today's OnPoint, Kenneth Kimmell, president of the Union of Concerned Scientists and a former commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, discusses the challenges to linking state and federal goals on energy and environment agendas and the role regional trading systems should play in helping states comply with the rule.

Scientists in Norway are testing a novel use for captured carbon dioxide: turning it into food for fish.

At least 12 people died in the Philippines when a typhoon swept through, but the storm only sideswiped the capital, Manila.

China has removed a drilling rig from disputed South China Sea waters claimed by both China and Vietnam.

Thirteen trees in a California park named after former President Reagan have been chopped down, police said.

Nearly two years after two college students asphyxiated beneath a pile of coal that spilled from a derailed train in a Baltimore suburb, their parents yesterday for the first time blamed the railroad.

New plaques at the Pennsylvania state Capitol in Harrisburg will list the well-known criminal histories of state lawmakers under their portraits.

Officials in New Jersey are warning people to keep toxic blue claw crabs from area tidal waters away from their dinner plates.

Aided by a grant from a local Sierra Club chapter, Amtrak is upgrading some of its diesel locomotives to reduce the amount of time they spend idling at a New York station.

Californians could face fines for washing cars under emergency drought regulations passed by state regulators yesterday.

Workers at the Chelopech mine in Bulgaria now use digital tablets to send real-time data to their supervisors in a central control room. The mine, owned by Canadian firm Dundee Precious Metals Inc., also boasts an underground Wi-Fi system and other high-tech improvements.

A South Carolina nuclear power plant is likely to be shut down for up to two weeks after a leak was detected.

The Department of Energy yesterday said it would fund $6 million in biofuels research in California and North Carolina.

The Energy Department is creating energy efficiency standards for computers and backup systems.

TOKYO -- Japanese regulators signaled today that two reactors in the country's southern region would be the first to meet strict safety standards imposed after a magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami triggered a nuclear disaster three years ago in the Fukushima Prefecture.

The Environmental Defense Fund's latest attempt to assess methane leakage across the natural gas system kicked off today when it partnered with Google Earth Outreach to map how much of the potent greenhouse gas is being released from pipes under Boston, Indianapolis and Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City.

Arctic lakes formed from melting permafrost could stabilize long-term global temperatures by storing more greenhouse gases than they release into the atmosphere, according to a new study released today.

A federal appeals court has ruled that BP PLC employees can sue the managers of the oil giant's savings plan over losses stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill.

Federal appellate judges have declined a request from Ecuadoreans to reconsider their ruling in favor of a defense contractor who sprayed pesticides in neighboring Colombia in a U.S. anti-narcotic campaign.

Latest Images