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Last week Alpha Natural Resources Inc., one of the largest coal mining companies in the United States, announced it was laying off roughly 250 workers. The company had telegraphed most of the cuts in previous weeks and said hundreds more could be on the horizon.

U.S. EPA is looking to trim about 200 employees from its ranks by early January.

Although former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar returned home to Colorado last year, he has never ruled out a return to politics. Could a looming vacancy at the helm of the Justice Department lure him back to Washington, D.C.?

In a new report, the Johnson Foundation at Wingspread argues diminishing water supplies in many regions of the United States pose a threat to the country's economic and social security. What are the primary infrastructure and water use challenges facing the U.S., and how can these challenges be addressed by industry and policymakers? During today's OnPoint, Lynn Broaddus, director of the environment program at the Johnson Foundation at Wingspread, discusses her group's recommendations for developing the next generation of water infrastructure.

The European Union could see cuts in deep-sea fishing quotas in the northeast Atlantic Ocean over the next two years with a new proposal unveiled Friday.

U.S. EPA has declined to grant a request by industry groups to extend the public comment period an additional 90 days as it works to update its risk management program.

After years of neglecting Meadow Lake, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation officials are focusing on restoration projects to clean up the city's largest lake.

Loving County, Texas, population 95, is booming with the construction of three new homes in unincorporated Mentone.

Environmentalists are raising concerns that coal and coal byproducts from a Louisiana export facility are leaking into wetlands in Plaquemines Parish.

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In Houston's Energy Corridor, a mecca for America's oil and gas industry, there is a quiet revolution afoot to give commuters more ways to get to work.

Cleanup continued today in Mer Rouge, La., after a freight train yesterday hit a truck stuck on the tracks, according to state police.

A popular brand of laundry detergent will soon contain cellulosic ethanol under an agreement announced today between the detergent's maker, Procter & Gamble Co., and chemical giant DuPont Co.

The Department of Energy has overpaid for computer software, according to an inspector general report released today.

U.S. EPA is putting taxpayer cash at risk by failing to adequately manage its multimillion-dollar vehicle fleet, according to a new watchdog report.

The Transportation Department is expanding the types of highway and transit projects that may qualify for "categorical exclusion" from National Environmental Policy Act reviews, under a final rule published in today's Federal Register.

Despite a new study underway examining the links between oil drilling and health, residents of a county in Colorado may not get answers to their questions about burning eyes and nosebleeds that some people began receiving 18 years ago.

Federal regulators have given the green light to a methane gas storage project near Seneca Lake in New York state despite warnings of a potential geological risk.

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz yesterday rejected arguments from critics that the Energy Department is dragging its feet on approving liquefied natural gas export applications, saying a new, streamlined process is working well.

More than $1 billion in penalties is at stake in a civil trial starting this week over companies accused of dumping cancer-causing chemicals into pits along the San Jacinto River in Harris County, Texas.

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