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Activists say geologic activity poses a significant threat to Japan's nuclear reactors after a volcanic eruption at Japan's Mount Ontake last week.

The Chinese government this week announced a media campaign to drum up support for genetically modified crops in an effort to counteract strong public opposition.

Government scientists are visiting New Mexico this week in hopes of learning more about the health impacts from a test of the world's first atomic bomb in a remote stretch of desert decades ago.

Businesses in California that generate large amounts of food waste or yard trimmings will have to separate them from the rest of their trash and send them to recycling, under legislation Gov. Jerry Brown (D) has signed into law.

One in three U.S. children goes to school within the vulnerability zone of a facility that stores hazardous chemicals, according to a report released today by the nonprofit Center for Effective Government.

Residents near the site of a Michigan chemical plant that was closed more than 30 years ago continue to breathe high levels of three contaminants, according to new research.

Mining companies, states and lobbying groups are urging the Obama administration to reject rulemaking meant to reduce nitrogen oxide "orange clouds" from strip mine blasting.

Researchers at the University of Delaware have a new pilot project that allows electric cars to contribute energy back to the power grid they draw from and earn money by acting as short-term mini storage facilities for energy.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation will look for a private company to build and run compressed natural gas filling stations for as many as 37 public transit agencies around the state.

A Canadian company has put forward a $450 million proposal to build a rare earth minerals mine in the Black Hills National Forest in northeastern Wyoming.

Wyoming business and industry leaders are hailing the arrival of a large fertilizer plant as a signal that manufacturers are moving to the Cowboy State to be close to its steady supply of cheap natural gas.

USEC Inc., a struggling uranium enrichment company that has for years tried to secure a billion-dollar loan guarantee from the Obama administration, emerged from bankruptcy today with a new name and a public image overhaul.

The Department of Energy is preparing to empty its loan guarantee piggy bank with a multibillion-dollar push to underwrite the development of innovative nuclear energy systems.

Coastal cities in the United States could avoid the worst impacts of many hurricanes by installing hundreds of thousands of massive wind turbines offshore, according to a study by researchers at Stanford University and the University of Delaware.

The Energy Department today announced that eBay Inc., Staples Inc., U.S. EPA, NASA and 15 other organizations will lower their data center power consumption by 20 percent in 10 years.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the East Coast's first liquefied natural gas export facility yesterday with what foes of the project contend was scant review of the terminal's implications for global warming.

Power plants are still responsible for more emissions of greenhouse gases than any other industrial sector, according to a U.S. EPA report released today.

Environmental groups are asking a federal court to send rules governing what discarded materials are exempt from air regulations back to U.S. EPA for review.

Environmentalists are profiting by suing the Fish and Wildlife Service, collecting legal fees and setting Endangered Species Act policy in closed-door settlements that assign deadlines stretching the agency's already thin resources, according to an oil and gas trade group's analysis that targets two specific groups it calls "serial litigants."

Washington, D.C., residents concerned about a National Park Service plan to cull white-tailed deer living in Rock Creek Park have called for nonlethal methods of population control, but recent efforts on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., to use various forms of sterilization on invasive deer have led to surprising results.

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