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The Environmental Defense Action Fund today released a new television ad criticizing North Carolina state House Speaker Thom Tillis (R) over cleanup efforts of a massive coal ash spill in the state earlier this year.

Colorado Sen. Mark Udall (D) and Rep. Cory Gardner (R) sought to showcase broad energy platforms last night as they faced off in their final public debate before the November election, but each ultimately fell along party lines, sparring over the science of global warming and climate change policy.

Leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee have joined the ranks of lawmakers urging a ban on travel from West African countries battling an outbreak by the Ebola virus.

A top executive at Southern Co. expressed optimism this morning about the future of carbon capture technology efforts despite her company's troubles with one of the country's most visible projects.

Commuters headed into the District of Columbia from Virginia faced some delays, but the morning commute into the nation's capital was smooth sailing for a group of cowboys on horseback and their mule team that traveled across the country to protest Bureau of Land Management grazing restrictions on public lands.

Pennsylvania is set to join Kentucky in enacting legislation that could make it impossible for the state to comply with U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan, and activists warn that move could require the federal government to step in.

Environmentalists wasted no time yesterday challenging U.S. EPA's final approval of an herbicide that they say threatens monarch butterflies and human health.

It was supposed to be an easy win for Republicans, but in recent weeks, the fight over Kansas' Senate seat has turned into an unexpected all-out brawl that could ultimately determine control of the upper chamber.

Texas environmentalists faced off in court this year against a coal-fired power plant with more than 6,500 alleged exceedances of the federal Clean Air Act limits on opacity, an indicator of fine airborne soot. The Sierra Club was seeking more than $330 million in civil penalties from Luminant Generation's Big Brown unit. It got nothing.The court ruled the pollution exceedances were covered by Texas' "affirmative defense" shield, which uses a Clean Air Act provision that lets states exempt industries from penalties for emissions during equipment malfunctions or plant startups and shutdowns. And now the industry shield for "upset emissions" is in jeopardy.

With crude oil prices on the decline, Saudi Arabia's strategy on production is being called into question. Why isn't production being cut, and how are U.S. projects being affected? On today's The Cutting Edge, EnergyWire deputy editor Joel Kirkland discusses the international implications of the downward trend on oil prices.

A tiny snake that has drawn the ire of developers will be taken off Kansas' threatened species list.

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Fish and Wildlife Service officials told a Florida developer yesterday that a planned Wal-Mart Stores Inc. development on forested land in Miami-Dade County is likely to harm endangered butterflies and bats.

Pennsylvania lawmakers approved a bill Wednesday to remove a regulation that requires a forest buffer between development projects and protected streams.

In an effort to curb air pollution, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District board this week announced plans to cut oil refinery emissions by 20 percent.

A Michigan power plant plans to stop burning coal after being cited for Clean Air Act violations, according to permit documents released yesterday by the Sierra Club.

Dust from mountaintop-removal mining activities can affect human cells enough to generate lung cancer, according to a new study by West Virginia University researchers published this week.

A freight train collided with a sightseeing train taking tourists on a fall-foliage tour in the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas yesterday, injuring more than a dozen people -- five critically, authorities said.

A new study by the Partnership for Public Service has found that while elite government fellows enjoy their work in agencies, their impressions of civil service grow worse over time.

The almond industry, which depends on honeybees to pollinate trees, is teaming with the bee industry in an effort to preserve the insects, according to new voluntary guidelines released yesterday by the Almond Board of California.

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