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California's efforts to get residents to save water during the state's historic drought have met with some success, according to figures released yesterday.

The United States' current negotiations on two major free-trade deals fall far short of a "21st century" pact that reduces poverty and protects the environment, bearing more resemblance to the Clinton-era North American Free Trade Agreement, noted economist Jeffrey Sachs said at an event this morning.

Federal transportation officials would be able to rely more on state and local planners' work when carrying out National Environmental Policy Act reviews of road and transit projects, under a new regulation proposed today.

Although many refer to the Energy Department's national lab system as the "crown jewels" of U.S. innovation, a new report says a greater focus on regional industry partnerships could increase U.S. innovation-driven economic growth.

Two men were cited after paragliding from South Carolina's Lake Monticello into a restricted area near the V.C. Summer nuclear plant.

Licensed indoor marijuana production in Washington state is expected to increase demand for electricity over the next 20 years by up to 160 megawatts, roughly enough to power a town of 60,000 people, according the preliminary results of a study presented yesterday by the Northwest Power and Conservation Council.

Several Canadian oil sands producers will announce voluntary environmental impact reduction targets later this month.

A series of energy-related projects in Oregon and Washington plus the Canadian province of British Columbia would pack a climate punch several times stronger than the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, according to a new report.

A former preparation plant foreman at a West Virginia mine has sued Murray Energy Corp. alleging she was fired for not making campaign contributions to the political candidates preferred by Murray chief executive Bob Murray and for gender discrimination, according to a legal complaint filed in Monongalia County Circuit Court.

The Supreme Court should require plaintiffs seeking damages as a result of the 2010 BP PLC oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to prove their losses were tied to the disaster, the former head of the oil company's original claims fund said.

A federal judge rejected a last-minute attempt to prevent the National Park Service from closing a Marin County, Calif., oyster farm, dealing another setback to the effort to keep the company in business.

A federal court has halted U.S. EPA's plan to curb haze-causing pollution in Wyoming until legal challenges by the state and industry are resolved.

A small Minnesota lake became the first in the country Monday to use dead bacterial cells to eradicate zebra mussels choking waterways around the country.

A proposed rule published yesterday in the Federal Register would protect an endangered bird from fishing activities on the West Coast.

Bird populations are dipping in habitats ranging from grasslands to forests, but conservation investments could help stem such declines, according to a new report.

Top officials at the Forest Service and Interior Department expressed optimism this week that they'll have enough money to fight wildfire through the end of the fiscal year -- a major break from the last two years that saw the government borrow from nonfire programs to cover $1 billion shortfalls on wildfire budgets.

Opponents of expanding a Pacific marine national monument yesterday intensified their quest to halt the proposal, bringing their concerns directly to the West Wing.

The National Mining Association is touting the results of a poll this morning showing the unpopularity of U.S. EPA environmental regulations in Kentucky, plus an advantage for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in his tough re-election battle.

Ohio lawmakers today put forward a bill that would require U.S. EPA to provide more information about the safety of the form of toxic algae that contaminated the water of hundreds of thousands of Toledo residents last month.

Koch Industries Inc., the company run by billionaire conservative industrialists Charles and David Koch, is launching a new campaign to improve its public image.

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