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Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) is adding to the pile of gas export bills jockeying for attention in the Senate with a new proposal that he is presenting as a compromise among the various approaches that have previously been floated.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee in a letter yesterday demanded the Nuclear Regulatory Commission submit a date when it would finalize a rule on storing waste at nuclear plants that must be finished before renewing or approving reactor operating licenses.

More than three dozen green groups today urged the U.S. trade representative (USTR) to rule out any provision in a still-pending pact with the European Union that would speed up exports of U.S. crude oil and natural gas across the Atlantic.

President Obama plans to attend a U.N. climate summit in September that aims to help world leaders coalesce around emissions-reduction goals, the White House said today.

An anti-poverty plan unveiled by House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) today includes several energy provisions, including potentially eliminating Department of Energy subsidies and hamstringing environmental regulations that could increase the price of electricity, gasoline or home heating.

Renewable energy and energy efficiency programs would receive a boost but fossil fuels and nuclear programs would be cut under a $34 billion spending bill for energy and water programs for fiscal 2015 released today by the Senate Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee.

Coal mines owned by billionaire James Justice II have been cited for more than 250 environmental violations in five states with unpaid penalties worth about $2 million, according to sources and records obtained by Greenwire.

A Supreme Court ruling last month on a complicated immigration visa law may figure prominently in the first legal challenges to U.S. EPA's greenhouse gas standards for power plants.

Next week, U.S. EPA will hold a series of public hearings in four cities -- Denver; Atlanta; Pittsburgh; and Washington, D.C. -- to receive comments on its Clean Power Plan proposal. How will these hearings shape the direction of the debate over the rule, and how heated could lobbying efforts become during the listening sessions? On today's The Cutting Edge, ClimateWire reporter Nathanael Massey discusses his expectations for the hearings and the future of the Clean Power Plan.

The Chinese government is considering an adjustable but mandatory coal-use cap that would still allow the consumption of the fossil fuel to grow for years.

Cattle rustling, an old staple of Western movies, is making a comeback in Kentucky with record prices for cows attracting the attention of thieves looking to take a bite out of profits, farmers say.

The bigger the snakehead, the bigger the honor and, Maryland officials hope, the bigger the impact anglers will have on the invasive "Frankenfish" population.

San Francisco's Recreation and Park Commission has agreed to pay $15 million in a proposed settlement to the family of a woman who was run over and killed by one of the department's pickup trucks while sunbathing on the grass.

From inside a tangle of 21 tons of old car parts and scrap metal, Megatron had a grave warning for the children posing for pictures with him in Montenegro's capital city, Podgorica.

Experts aren't sure how to stop a deadly fungus that is threatening trees in the Everglades.

Researchers in Colorado are using "ozone gardens" in an effort to measure the extent of and raise awareness of this summer's air pollution.

U.S. EPA has a new strategy for advancing environmental justice in tribal and indigenous communities.

Oil giant BP PLC announced yesterday that a member of its board of directors is stepping down after 29 years with the company. The same day, U.K.-based utility firm Centrica PLC confirmed he could be headed there.

Japanese macaques that live near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which was wrecked by a 2011 earthquake and tsunami, display lower blood cell counts than monkeys that live nearly 200 miles away, biologists found.

The federal Office of Surface Mining is considering potential new regulations to increase oversight of blasting at strip coal mines.

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