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Weak auditing practices resulted in more than $500,000 in questionable expenses for an $8.3 million high-risk energy technology project, according to a report released today by the Energy Department's inspector general.

U.S. EPA has generally followed the right procedures for analyzing the economic effects of regulations but in some cases has developed estimates that were not as useful as they could be, according to a new government report.

The biggest fish on the planet is also turning out to be a huge source of revenue for a small island country in the Indian Ocean.

The operator of one of the nation's first cellulosic biofuel plants yesterday cast a bleak outlook for its future, warning investors that it has only enough financing to make it through September.

The Southwest needs a lot of work before it can overcome the challenges of exporting energy to markets, according to two officials in the Obama administration.

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz told a group of New Mexico officials and residents yesterday he would restart operations at a troubled nuclear waste dump in the state as soon as possible after a radiation leak shut the facility earlier this year.

Canada is taking steps to enforce its claim on the Arctic by sending two icebreakers to map the seafloor extending toward the North Pole from the country's northernmost island.

A trailblazing wind energy developer who helped establish some of the largest wind farms in California died Friday after a brief battle with cancer, industry officials announced this week. He was 81.

A Florida man yesterday pleaded guilty and was sentenced for trafficking spiny lobsters.

The gas and chemical industries yesterday asked a federal appeals court to reconsider a ruling that sided with environmental groups and threw out two controversial U.S. EPA hazardous waste policies.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday denied a coal mining company's request that it reconsider a much-touted ruling boosting the Clean Water Act's so-called permit shield.

A Virginia-based subsidiary of Dominion Energy is challenging a federal appeals court's continued rejection of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's attempt to divide up the cost of high-voltage power lines in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest.

Oyster harvests in the Gulf of Mexico have dramatically declined in the four years since BP PLC's Deepwater Horizon oil spill, raising concerns among fishermen.

The system for rating threats from bad weather will become a little more nuanced to avoid surprise hail, high winds or tornados spinning out of a "slight risk" warning, the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center said yesterday.

Restaurants and seafood vendors are taking an opportunistic bite out of the fame of Discovery Channel's "Shark Week" to put meat from the toothy predator on people's plates.

A retrofit on two hurricane hunter airplanes will leave only one of the aging machines capable of doing its job in the peak of the upcoming storm season.

A nearly indestructible invasive weed resistant to most pesticides is laying waste to crops as it moves into the Midwest after devastating cotton fields in the South.

As water levels continue to decline at Lake Mead, officials are growing concerned about possible impacts to farmers and the city of Las Vegas.

Trophy hunting may not always create an "unnatural selection" that endangers the biggest sheep with the largest horns, according to new research.

From the mouth of the Columbia River near Portland, Ore., to its Canadian headwaters, American Indian tribes, Canadian First Nations, religious leaders and local residents have been praying for the return of salmon to the river's upper reaches.

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