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A U.S. EPA proposal for substituting computer modeling for air pollution monitors is meeting resistance from industry and some state regulators.

New identification requirements for entering federal buildings kicked in Monday, and that's likely to complicate things for many of the 1,600 or so people expected to attend hearings on a draft U.S. EPA power plant rule next week.

An environmental group came under attack today as Senate Republicans accused U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy of heeding Beltway elites and putting their concerns ahead of needy Americans when her agency wrote rules for curbing power plants' greenhouse gas emissions.

The Department of Transportation unveiled a sweeping oil-by-rail rule today that seeks to overhaul decades-old tank car standards and curb speeds for "high-hazard" trains.

A Greenpeace report yesterday says China's plan to build 50 coal gasification plants will significantly contribute to climate change.

The chairman of an Indian uranium mining company dismissed unusually high rates of physically deformities in villages near his company's mines as biased, saying activists and doctors come in with agendas.

For the first time in more than 30 years, paleontologists are set to revisit a Wyoming cave that has proved to be a treasure trove of prehistoric fossils dating back possibly 100,000 years.

Massachusetts today becomes the ninth state to officially take shark fin soup off the menu with a swipe of Gov. Deval Patrick's pen.

A ballot measure to require genetically modified food products to be labeled has qualified for the November general election, Oregon elections officials confirmed yesterday.

Crews have refloated a drug-smuggling freight ship that has been leaking oil into the Hylebos Waterway in Tacoma, Wash., since it sank in January 2013.

Texas officials are pushing back against a U.S. EPA website that uses data to show that the state has a higher percentage of major industrial plants with "high priority violations" of air pollution laws and that its regulators perform far fewer inspections of its most-polluting facilities than other states.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today the creation of a $10 billion fund to support the development of water, transportation and energy infrastructure, as well as rural businesses, in rural America.

It took about six hours for Williston, N.D., emergency officials to alert residents of a large fire and explosion at an oil services facility storing toxic chemicals, raising concerns that more action is needed to keep people in the loop.

A report from investor activist group Ceres is gauging the nation's major utilities' embrace of renewable energy and energy efficiency with an eye toward encouraging compliance with upcoming federal electricity rules.

Federal appellate judges have denied California's request to reconsider a ruling upholding the Fish and Wildlife Service's finding that California's water infrastructure threatens an endangered fish, setting the stage for a potential Supreme Court appeal.

A study released yesterday finds an "unhappy" intersection of prime blue whale feeding areas and busy shipping lanes off the California coast that could lead to collisions.

The Bureau of Land Management has banned exploding targets at firing ranges in 12 national forests in four Western states, saying the devices can cause wildfires and threaten safety.

A conservation leader in Delaware yesterday accused the National Marine Fisheries Service of "dereliction" after the federal agency left out recent fish and turtle entrapments in its endangered species report on the Salem/Hope Creek nuclear plant.

The Fish and Wildlife Service today finalized protections for a rare fish found in the Southwest.

The National Marine Fisheries Service is considering a fishing ban on Pacific bluefin tuna, in response to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity that called for stronger protections for the species' dwindling population.

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