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A report this week from Chinese official news agency Xinhua showing that almost half the country's fertile land is deteriorating has Beijing worried about its ability to feed the world's largest population.

A bill signed by Gov. Tom Corbett (R) last week will increase fees for the state's five nuclear power plants to fund a nuclear safety program.

An unmanned barge carrying 950 gallons of fuel will be stranded in sea ice through the winter, said the Coast Guard yesterday.

California's Central Coast, despite its proximity to the ocean, is highly vulnerable to water shortages exacerbated by the state's severe drought.

Call it a burrito or a beaver dam, but U.S. EPA hopes an erosion-prevention project on northern Idaho's Coeur d'Alene River reduces visitors' exposure to heavy-metal-laced soil and saves riverfront property.

The Lone Ranger protecting the water supply of Oregon's most populous region is hoping for a Tonto.

Amid a statewide drought that shows no signs of abating, Los Angeles has increased how much it will pay residents who rip out their water-dependent lawns.

Auto experts question ethanol emissions modeling

Duke Energy Corp.'s board of directors has elected Richard Meserve, a former Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman, to its board.

An advanced biofuels startup announced yesterday that it's learned to produce omega-3 oils from recycled carbon dioxide, a breakthrough it claims might capture and recycle waste gases from industrial facilities.

The Energy Department wasted nearly $2 million on information technology hardware like desktop and laptop computers, according to a new report from the agency's inspector general.

Bipartisan legislation to expand and overhaul the Surface Transportation Board carries a five-year price tag of $168 million, about one-third more on an annual basis than the freight rail regulator is now receiving, the Congressional Budget Office concludes in a newly released estimate.

Mary Rosenthal, the first executive director of the Algae Biomass Organization, died Saturday after a battle with cancer, ABO said in statement today.

Scientists have announced the discovery of new way to break down the woody waste left after the manufacture of plant-based fuels, opening the door for potential new products that could make biorefineries more profitable.

Frustrated by state delays in processing federally required industrial pollution permits, Utah environmentalists have sued the state's Division of Air Quality to force action on a permit application by the owner of Salt Lake City's largest oil refinery and eight other polluters.

A federal administrative law judge has ruled against one of the Obama administration's first actions under a landmark mine safety rule, amid the industry's efforts to undo the guidelines completely.

Scientists from the University of Strasbourg in France are getting a bird's-eye view of a penguin colony with the help of a robot designed to look like a fluffy baby penguin.

There is not a rat for every human in New York City, according to a new study.

Wildlife officials in Pennsylvania are hoping to contain the invasive spotted lanternfly, which they say poses a threat to the state's fruit orchards, grapevines, forests and timber industry.

A hunting contest that bagged 11 coyotes near Bakersfield, Calif., on Sunday, has enraged conservationists who said such contests are harming predator populations in the state.

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