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The debate around genetically modified organisms is lacking the touch of the social sciences, academics and communication experts said at a public meeting yesterday.

U.S. EPA has created the appearance that it's recruiting members of a fellowship program instead of hiring permanent employees, the agency's watchdog office has found.

Renewable energy experts are trying to devise ways to improve solar power connections so they can continue to provide energy when the rest of the grid blacks out.

New York state regulators are locked in a battle with a nuclear energy operator over Indian Point Energy Center's reliance on billions of gallons of daily water and the resulting damage it does to Hudson River fish.

Engineers are turning a schoolteacher's nightmare into a source of renewable energy.

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz today announced a new public-private partnership to help meet an Obama administration goal of increasing energy productivity by 2030.

San Diego and parts of Los Angeles broke records for electricity demand yesterday on the third day of a heat wave. And those new highs topped peaks set just a day earlier.

BP PLC has asked the Texas Supreme Court to interpret an insurance policy in a way that could save the oil company hundreds of millions of dollars in Deepwater Horizon spill costs.

A federal judge yesterday declined to dismiss a Murray Energy Corp. lawsuit challenging what the company calls U.S. EPA's war on coal.

Yellowstone National Park proposed culling a fifth of its bison herd yesterday, a day after conservationists filed a legal petition calling on the Obama administration to end the practice of shipping surplus bison off to American Indian reservations for slaughter.

Retirement gave Ken Miracle a chance to pursue his passion of protecting one of the most controversial birds in the West.

Matt Conn is a one-man force on a mission to restore dozens of acres of Louisiana property to wetlands by planting native trees and killing invasive species with herbicides and a chain saw.

A rare California beetle still requires protection under federal law, the Fish and Wildlife Service announced today.

The Bureau of Reclamation is doubling water releases into the Lower Klamath River after scientists found diseased chinook salmon in the waterway.

The Bureau of Land Management is overstating the impacts of wild horses and burros on greater sage grouse habitat in an effort to deflect attention from the much larger impact of livestock grazing, according to a government watchdog group that says the agency's actions could impede grouse recovery efforts.

A letter to Florida regulators from Republican Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday did not oppose or endorse a plan for a 43,000-acre development near the Everglades but asked officials instead to pay "special attention" to the controversial project.

Republican nominee Bob Beauprez surged to a 10-point lead over Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) in a new Quinnipiac University poll released today.

A Senate committee advanced a bill this morning to fast-track the Food and Drug Administration's sunscreen approval process in a bid to prevent skin cancer.

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee easily approved today a four-year Amtrak reauthorization bill that would maintain the passenger railroad's base federal subsidy at close to this year's $1.4 billion level.

Two top administration officials and Republican members of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee today faced off over whether President Obama's Climate Action Plan is a down payment on limiting global emissions or an unnecessary cost to the American consumer.

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