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Secretary of State John Kerry announced plans yesterday to help fund a new World Bank auction pilot program to curb methane emissions.

A jury has awarded almost $2.1 million to a 17-year-old Baltimore youth who said he was exposed to high levels of lead as a toddler in a rental home in the city in the 1990s.

In light of U.S. EPA's decision not to appeal an agricultural water pollution case, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has extended its schedule for other parties to file briefings in the event that they decide to appeal.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is urging a federal appeals court to not invalidate a high-profile rule for electricity-saving programs until the agency decides whether to ask the Supreme Court to intervene.

Texas, Wyoming and utility groups yesterday asked a federal appeals court to reconsider its ruling in favor of a U.S. EPA decision to force the states to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, claiming a Supreme Court ruling has since overruled it.

Polar bears have long been a poster child for the dangers climate change poses for species as melting sea ice has made it difficult for them to sustain their diet of seals, but the real story is not so simple.

The drought afflicting California contributed to a massive mudslide on a mountain in the northern part of the state Saturday, scientists said.

A wind energy company that planned to install 84 to 118 wind turbines directly in the path of a migratory bird route in Missouri has quietly pulled out of the project.

Sheriffs and state politicians have sharply criticized the management style of the Bureau of Land Management official overseeing federal law enforcement in Utah and Nevada.

A new panel of outdoor retailers and manufacturers, the energy industry, and conservation and sportsmen's groups, among others, will brainstorm ways to boost federal funding for a program aimed at keeping wildlife from becoming endangered.

The Environmental Defense Action Fund is launching a new attack ad against Florida Rep. Steve Southerland today, using the specter of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill as it aims to unseat the Republican lawmaker.

Taxing natural gas extraction has become a sticking point in the race to lead the Keystone State.

Google Inc. failed to look up a political group's stance on climate change before funding it on an unrelated issue, according to the search company's chairman.

Two House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee aides will share the duties of deputy staff director following the departure of Stephen Martinko, according to an announcement from Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.).

The Senate's top climate change skeptic said yesterday that President Obama seems poised to bypass the Senate and commit the United States to a binding international treaty on global warming.

Senate Republicans say they're focused on the task of taking control of the upper chamber this fall. But GOP members are also eyeing top committee spots in a potential power shuffle next year that could reshape policy on key energy and environmental issues.

Among the third-party groups jamming the airwaves this cycle, one political nonprofit has sponsored ads to promote the renewable fuel standard, slammed tax breaks for fossil fuel producers and criticized a candidate backing the sprawling Pebble mine project in Alaska.

The Interior Department is expected today to release a draft plan to manage large-scale renewable energy projects across the California desert, a move that academicians, industry representatives and conservation groups say should finally provide the regulatory structure to balance development with natural resource protection.

Robert Murray, head of privately held coal company Murray Energy Corp., yesterday predicted years of woes for his industry and issued a rallying cry against the Obama administration.

UNITED NATIONS -- President Obama today declared the United States is "stepping up to the plate on climate change," claiming America has cut more carbon emissions than any other nation on Earth over the past eight years. Speaking before world leaders convened by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for the first-ever heads of state summit on global warming, Obama declared unequivocal support for a new international agreement. He repeatedly said the United States will lead but called on other major emitters, particularly China, to march in lock step.

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