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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is not a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) -- and never has been -- the company confirmed this week.

The fight over global warming in Washington, D.C., has shifted from climate science to the dismal science.

The Forest Service yesterday announced the award of a massive, 10-year logging contract in the Tongass National Forest to Viking Lumber Co., southeast Alaska's last remaining medium-sized mill.

It pays to be a top dog in the energy and environment business -- even in the nonprofit arena.

Oil and gas production is causing excessive wintertime ozone pollution in eastern Utah's Uinta Basin, according to a study led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and released today.

This week, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved Dominion Resources Inc.'s liquefied natural gas export project at Cove Point, Md. What are the next steps for the facility and possible litigation? During today's OnPoint, Bill Cooper, president of the Center for Liquefied Natural Gas, discusses the state of play on LNG export facility approvals and talks about the geopolitics surrounding U.S. LNG exports.

A tractor-trailer overturned near Tulsa, Okla., yesterday, spilling 6,000 gallons of asphalt oil onto the Creek Turnpike and grassy median.

New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez (R) has won a legal battle over her repeal of green building standards implemented when Bill Richardson was governor.

Rising subsidies, along with noise complaints and loss of scenic views, have provoked many in Oklahoma to speak out against the wind power industry.

Utah's inaugural crow hunt reportedly started with just a single bang, when a bird was shot for stealing apples from an orchard, according to state wildlife officials.

General Electric Co. has agreed to study polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contamination along the shorelines of the Hudson River, from Fort Edward to Troy, and develop cleanup plans, U.S. EPA announced yesterday.

A conservative senior citizens' organization released a paper today charging that U.S. EPA's climate change and air quality rules will make older people sicker rather than healthier.

Community groups and state lawmakers are upset that California Gov. Jerry Brown chose to veto a bill this week to make changes to the troubled Department of Toxic Substances Control.

In 15 years of working in a commercial nursery in Florida, Rosalia never received any training on pesticide safety. She frequently gets nosebleeds and loses consciousness, and sees symptoms of sickness in her co-workers almost every day. She doesn't know the names of pesticides that are used at her workplace, which are sprayed as close as 4 feet away from where workers tend the plants.

A chemical used for decades in the manufacture of tires is known to cause cancer in humans, government scientists said today.

The Interior Department branch that regulates offshore drilling lacks standardized procedures for reviewing drilling permits and has failed to complete work on an electronic program meant to improve the process, the agency's inspector general said yesterday.

After initially getting a lackluster response, the Federal Highway Administration is again asking states, tribal governments and transit agencies to furnish lists of what they deem "projects of national and regional significance."

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell yesterday named three officials to temporarily lead the department's budget, science and water programs.

Asian investors who own a majority share of a billion-dollar Canadian coal mine are in talks to sell their interest in the mine for just $2, illustrating the declining value of the fossil fuel.

A California law that forces oil companies to be transparent about certain operational details of the hydraulic fracturing oil and gas production technique has failed in its goal of getting key information to the public.

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