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A Hawaii judge will decide today whether to postpone voting in two precincts on the Big Island set to cast ballots tomorrow in a tight Senate Democratic primary contest, responding to Rep. Colleen Hanabusa's (D) request to give residents more time to recover from recent storm damage.

Former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is helping lead an effort with dozens of conservation groups and business leaders to beat back recent attempts by Western states to acquire millions of acres of federal land.

BALTIMORE -- Jones Falls, one of the main streams feeding into the Inner Harbor here, is seemingly swallowed by the city somewhere near Pennsylvania Station, traveling through viaducts and sweeping up trash before being spit unceremoniously out next to the National Aquarium and some of the city's greatest tourist attractions.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell has informed Alaska's top elected lawmakers and the leaders of an Alaskan village that she will not reopen her decision of last year rejecting the construction of a road through a federal wilderness area that locals say is needed to improve public safety.

The country's top electricity regulator today said that the current process for ensuring the U.S. grid remains reliable as newly proposed carbon rules take effect is working and that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission doesn't need a more active role in advising U.S. EPA.

Despite its age and technology, the 60-year-old McMeekin Power Station near Columbia, S.C., consistently ranks as one of the most efficient coal-fired power plants in the United States. It's especially surprising because McMeekin starts at a comparative disadvantage -- most other top-rated coal plants have larger boilers that operate at much higher temperatures and pressure, automatically providing about a 3 percent efficiency boost.

Sixteen workers remain trapped in a flooded coal mine in China's northeastern Heilongjiang province, according to state media, after nine miners were rescued today.

Queensland authorities in Australia have granted an Indian mining company approval to build a railway connecting a coal mine to a massive coal port close to the Great Barrier Reef.

Approval of a seemingly small regulatory step forward has opponents of dam construction along a free-flowing Tibetan river concerned.

Instead of catching dinner during a fishing trip, an Alaska man might have netted a house down payment when he bagged a 12-foot mammoth tusk fossil.

Ohio agencies will assist cities with testing and treating their drinking water and will provide more than $1 million to help farmers install new equipment to cut down on fertilizer that leaves their fields, officials announced yesterday.

U.S. EPA does not plan to make changes to its air standards for backup generators at power plants and other industrial facilities.

The Department of Homeland Security will formally launch a rulemaking process to update how the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards program operates, the agency announced today.

U.S. EPA has had some problems getting on the cloud, the agency's watchdog office has found.

Environmentalists in Illinois want the state to respond to U.S. EPA's greenhouse gas proposal for existing power plants by boosting renewable energy and demand-side efficiency rather than "bailing out" the state's existing nuclear fleet.

A judge has ordered the release of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's 34-year-old son, who was in jail on charges unrelated to his father's armed standoff with officers over a cattle roundup on federally managed land in April.

A federal judge has allowed BP PLC to negotiate the terms of a proposed subpoena of government documents related to the moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.

A federal magistrate tossed out most of a lawsuit brought by environmental groups challenging U.S. EPA's approval of a variety of pesticides but said the groups can pursue claims that officials improperly allowed 11 chemicals on the market without considering the hazards posed to endangered species.

Researchers in South Carolina are harnessing the power of citizen scientists in a multiyear project to track whether fireflies are dwindling in urban centers.

Conservation groups want the New Zealand government to halt all oil and gas exploration overlapping a sanctuary established to protect the critically endangered Maui's dolphin.

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