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Leaky oil and gas wells are to blame for the contamination of drinking water above shale plays in Pennsylvania and Texas, but hydraulic fracturing does not appear to be at fault, according to a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

What is the impact of SolarWorld Industries' trade cases against Chinese solar panel manufacturers on the United States' solar industry? During today's OnPoint, Timothy Brightbill, a partner at Wiley Rein and lead counsel to SolarWorld, defends SolarWorld's second round of litigation and explains why he believes higher tariffs against Chinese manufacturers are necessary. He also weighs in on how vulnerable the U.S. solar industry is to competition from the Chinese market.

A change in the winds brought more smoke from Indonesian forest fires but also an end to the archipelago's more-than-decadelong holdout from a regional plan to address smog fueled in large part by annual slash-and-burn clear-cuts of the country's rainforests.

A report by British lawmakers contends the government is less effective at reducing air pollution, preventing flooding and protecting wildlife than it was four years ago.

Australian lawmakers yesterday released the details of a 35-year plan to manage risks to the Great Barrier Reef in an effort to stop the United Nations from reclassifying the giant coral formation as "in danger."

Chinese regulators have banned the use of low-quality coal in a move to curtail air pollution and an excess of the material.

A lava flow moved through vacant lots yesterday in a rural subdivision on Hawaii's Big Island, and work continues to find alternate transportation routes as a crucial highway remains squarely in the lava's path.

Fort Belknap Indian Community Council President Mark Azure said tribal police detained and cited a Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks game warden Saturday for criminal trespass as tempers flared amid an ongoing dispute over poaching on tribal land.

Lawmakers are giving honeybees a fighting chance amid the loss of foraging grounds, encroaching invasive species, climate change and disease that have decimated populations worldwide.

The chemical subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corp. will pay New Jersey regulators $190 million to resolve pollution violations in the Passaic River, the state said yesterday.

Mercedes-Benz is introducing its first plug-in hybrid car with a modified version of its S-Class sedan.

The Obama administration wants to see the corn ethanol industry grow to the full extent that Congress envisioned when it passed the renewable fuel standard in 2007, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said today.

Federal regulators today approved the first new nuclear reactor design in three years -- slated for use in Virginia and Michigan -- following a yearslong review in which the developer was fined for allegedly concealing safety information.

A California utility and three cities are suing the Obama administration in a bid to lower payments for habitat restoration in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

Scientists are examining a rare colossal squid as long as a minibus and with tentacles like fire hoses after pulling it from a deep freeze where it has sat for the past eight months.

Researchers from the Miami Bat Squad have discovered the first known roost of the endangered Florida bonneted bat in decades in a house on a golf course.

Environmental officials are getting ready to start a 10,000-acre controlled fire this week in a bid to stop the spread of an invasive fern in Florida's Everglades National Park.

The body of a Montana BASE jumper has been discovered at the base of Glacier National Park's Mount Siyeh after the man fell about 1,500 to 2,000 feet to his death.

A conservation group has petitioned the federal government to stop killing bison in Yellowstone National Park as it attempts to stop the animal from spreading a disease to cattle on nearby Montana ranches.

The United States, the European Union and other countries yesterday condemned Iceland over its commercial whaling practices.

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