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Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer is stepping up spending on his political action committee's Washington state affiliate, records show.

Former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff (D) repeatedly slammed Rep. Mike Coffman (R) last night over his opposition to climate change policies, as the pair faced off for a third debate in their contentious House contest.

West Virginia Republican Evan Jenkins, the man hoping to defeat Democratic Rep. Nick Rahall this November, is calling his opponent a "phony" in a new ad.

Eliot Cutler needs a big boost if he's going to surge to the front of the pack in the race to be Maine's next governor.

Social networking titan Facebook is joining a stampede of technology companies abandoning the right-leaning American Legislative Exchange Council, citing disagreements over policy, including climate change.

Wyoming's wolf hunt set to begin next week is in jeopardy after a federal judge in Washington, D.C., yesterday reinstated Endangered Species Act protections for the iconic predator.

The draft of a sweeping new plan to guide renewable energy development in the Southern California desert has met with mostly positive reviews from conservation groups that have long argued that properly siting commercial-scale projects should be a priority.

When U.S. EPA Inspector General Arthur Elkins issued a "seven-day letter" to the head of the Chemical Safety Board a year ago, the watchdog was dropping a bomb that only few inspectors general have in the past.

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Randy Simmons never expected he would become Washington's cannabis czar. He didn't even want the job. The day after Washington state voters approved Initiative 502, Simmons, whose official title is deputy director of the state Liquor Control Board, was called into a staff meeting and asked if he wanted to oversee implementation of the new law, which legalized possession of marijuana for adults over 21. "I said no," Simmons recalled during a recent interview in his office here. "About a week later, my boss said, 'You don't get to have that choice anymore, so you're going to be the implementation manager.'" Thus began one of the most interesting experiments taking place in any state capital in the country.

How is Nest Labs providing utilities with game-changing technologies that both promote efficiency and engage consumers? During today's OnPoint, Ben Bixby, director of energy products at Nest Labs and the CEO and founder of MyEnergy, discusses the impact of innovative technology on demand response, and talks about Nests' partnerships with utilities in California and Texas.

Japan's Kyushu Electric Power Co. announced today it would cut off access to its grid for renewable energy suppliers due to network limitations.

An Australian federal court has awarded conservationists more time to appeal government plans to dump dredged silt from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park on land.

The company that operated a controversial petroleum coke storage terminal in Chicago has decided to sell the property, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said yesterday.

A solar-powered aircraft will begin and end its historic journey around the world in Abu Dhabi, according to the government-backed clean-energy company in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates capital.

A movie critic, a sports blogger and a onetime spy are among 24 people chosen for Amtrak's first writers' residency program.

Southwest Airlines Co. announced plans yesterday to use plant-based jet fuel to power some flights.

The Agriculture Department's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has pushed the commenting deadline forward for the draft environmental impact statement for the deregulation of corn and soybeans that resist two herbicides.

If it's 7:45 a.m. in Washington, D.C., and he isn't traveling, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz is sitting down for his morning briefs with a cup of coffee -- regular, black.

Cynthia Quarterman, who has headed the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration since late 2009, is leaving next month for a position with the Atlantic Council, the Washington, D.C.-based international affairs think tank announced this morning.

A man injured in an explosion at a gas storage tank in western Wyoming has died, a hospital official in Salt Lake City said yesterday.

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