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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his opponent, Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes (D), traded a barrage of accusations last night over the coal industry's steep decline in the Bluegrass State.

Executives from nearly three dozen oil companies today called on President Obama to hold firm on a proposed rule that would roll back the nation's biofuel blending targets.

The Sierra Club's Victory Corps is deploying staffers to key battleground states in the midterm elections, the group said today.

The League of Conservation Voters spent more money on the 2012 election cycle than it did on the previous three cycles combined, and the results showed.

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Republicans released emails between the Natural Resources Defense Council and U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy that they say show the group and agency colluded on a proposal for curbing greenhouse gases from power plants.

The Supreme Court today dove into a decadeslong water dispute between Kansas and Nebraska, with both sides seeming to gain traction while arguing for different remedies.

The Department of the Interior's inspector general spent years investigating BP America Inc. for allegedly underpaying the U.S. government by millions of dollars in royalties.

The Department of the Interior's inspector general closed 457 investigations last year -- and released public reports for only three.

Next spring, the United States will assume chairmanship of the Arctic Council, an intergovernmental panel of eight nations bordering the Arctic. How is the U.S.'s chairmanship significant to the agenda established by the council? During today's OnPoint, Rafe Pomerance, former deputy assistant secretary of State for environment and development and a member of the Polar Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences, urges the State Department to prioritize climate action in its Arctic agenda. He also discusses his expectations for how the priorities of the U.S.'s chairmanship will differ from those of the current Canadian chairmanship.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe continues to face an uphill climb in his unpopular bid to restart Japan's nuclear industry, which has idled since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster more than three years ago.

The United Kingdom has installed its first geothermal test well in 20 years in an effort to establish an additional renewable energy source.

Italy will require all cars and trucks to run on fuel that is mixed with advanced biofuels by 2018.

The French transition away from nuclear energy inched toward completion yesterday as the lower house of Parliament passed a measure streamlining regulations to help expand wind, solar and other renewable production.

American soldiers sent to Iraq to find former leader Saddam Hussein's purported weapons of mass destruction instead often encountered and were wounded by chemical munitions supplied to the former dictator by United States and European companies during the 1980s, though the incidents weren't disclosed at the time.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration plans to update limits for workplace chemical exposures amid evidence the 1971 standards are "not sufficiently protective."

Coast Guard officials in Alabama said two boats carrying 2,000 gallons of oil capsized yesterday in a shipping channel near Mobile, leaving behind a mile-long sheen.

Arizona regulators have cited the owner of an abandoned mine after heavy rains sent orange sludge flowing from the site last month.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti issued an executive order yesterday aimed at slashing water use in his city of 3.9 million.

Burrito giant Chipotle yesterday threw its weight behind ballot measures in Colorado and Oregon that would mandate labeling of genetically modified food, though the company hasn't donated money to the campaigns.

Whole Foods Market Inc. today is set to launch a new ranking system based on suppliers' farming practices across its 400 stores in the United States and Canada.

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