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Environmental groups have asked a federal court to review a recent U.S. EPA rule that establishes a new deadline for states to submit plans to reduce fine particle pollution.

Alpha Natural Resources Inc. announced plans yesterday to idle a number of mines and associated facilities in West Virginia this year.

President Obama officially named Cheryl LaFleur today to lead the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission until next April. The White House has designated Norman Bay to take over the chairmanship on April 15, 2015.

Unlike the clear warning in "The Godfather" of a severed horse head, Australian police remain flummoxed about what it means to find a dead koala with $50 tucked in its mouth outside their police station.

Norwegian reindeer are invading a major highway tunnel in Norway to escape unusually high temperatures.

Sweden's largest forest fire in modern history has killed one person and forced hundreds of others to evacuate, the country's government said.

Singapore today passed a bill that will fine domestic and foreign companies that cause haze pollution on the island country.

Beijing's Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau said yesterday the city will ban the use of coal by 2020 as it works to curb high levels of air pollution in the city.

A Houston oil exploration and production company is facing Securities and Exchange Commission charges over claims made to investors.

A program to finance home improvements that save energy, nixed by federal regulators four years ago, has found a new life in California.

Two environmental groups are threatening to sue U.S. EPA to force the agency to use the Clean Air Act to limit greenhouse gas emissions from flights that pass through U.S. airspace.

A U.S. oil logistics firm and a London-based oil trading company have agreed to pay $13 million to settle a federal price-rigging lawsuit.

A federal judge has dismissed environmental group claims against the Tennessee Valley Authority's decision to spend roughly $1 billion on environmental upgrades at its Gallatin coal-fired power plant near Nashville, Tenn.

Federal employees who had to work during last October's government shutdown could be entitled to more pay.

A British endurance swimmer is planning to swim the Seven Seas to draw attention to the need for protecting the world's oceans.

The United States and Canada appear divided in the lead-up to renewed treaty negotiations governing management of the Columbia River, but American Indian tribes and Canadian First Nations are uniting their prayers for the return of salmon hindered by the Columbia's numerous dams.

Grand Canyon National Park officials are investigating a YouTube video posted over the weekend that shows a man kicking a squirrel to its near-certain death from what appears to be the edge of the canyon.

Biologists are working to keep what some consider Florida's most invasive reptile at bay -- and it isn't the Burmese python.

Scientists studying lesions found on fish in the Gulf of Mexico in 2011 and 2012 can't say for certain whether they were caused by the BP PLC Deepwater Horizon oil spill, but they have ruled out nearly everything else.

New England fishermen could face another cut to the amount of cod they can catch, after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released data that indicates the fish's numbers have plummeted.

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