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The Clean Water Network, a nonprofit environmental group, is suing the Army and its contractor BAE Systems Ordnance Systems Inc. over the dumping of explosive chemicals into the Holston River near Kingsport, Tenn.

With a relentless drought still ongoing in California, the San Diego City Council approved a plan yesterday to reuse wastewater for drinking water.

After years of improvement, the U.S. airline industry showed no gain in overall fuel efficiency last year, the International Council on Clean Transportation reported today.

A small Ohio town has been capitalizing on a worldwide high in gold prices.

The builders of the new Brickell City Centre in Miami are hoping a new architecture element will be able to capture nature and cool shoppers in an outdoor retail space without using any electricity.

The world's largest mining company is moving its money from iron and coal to copper and petroleum based on its belief in burgeoning Asian incomes.

Representatives from more than 100 large companies flocked to an environmental conference in Sydney, Australia, to pledge support to a goal to set aside 17 percent of the world's land and 10 percent of the world's oceans for protection.

A study by a Virginia environmental group has found flood damage is having an impact in the low-lying city of Norfolk.

The Agriculture Department is looking to form a taxpayer-backed crop insurance system to pay organic growers who face economic losses when their produce is contaminated by cross-breeding with genetically modified crops from neighboring farms, a science adviser with USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said this morning.

Spanish authorities have detained the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise after clashing Saturday with activists protesting oil exploration near the Canary Islands.

Idaho's largest utility has signed 16 renewable energy contracts, totaling 461 solar megawatts, marking a change for the energy landscape in a state that already has the nation's lowest energy prices.

The number of cyberattacks against energy companies is down, but industry members and government officials remain worried about the threat hackers pose to the U.S. grid.

A mining company owned by a corporation registered overseas and its five top officials were indicted yesterday on charges of violating the U.S. Clean Water Act.

Federal judges struggled today with a complicated challenge to U.S. EPA's air emissions standards for polyvinyl chloride manufacturing facilities, questioning the merits of both the agency's and industry challengers' arguments.

The National Weather Service said all 50 states, even Hawaii, saw subfreezing temperatures yesterday with heavy snow prompting New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to declare a state of emergency for 10 western counties in his state.

Japan has been experimenting in coral regeneration in an effort to maintain a large exclusive economic zone.

The National Park Service said yesterday that it's taken steps to curtail a secondary market for free tickets to a memorial in Hawaii's Pearl Harbor and improve flagging employee morale at the popular historic site.

A Senate panel this morning approved Therese McMillan's nomination to permanently head the Federal Transit Administration, paving the way for a final confirmation vote by the full Senate.

Texas Republican Rep. Mike Conaway will bring three of his own staff members and retain two House Agriculture Committee aides in his office next year, when he takes the committee gavel.

Rep. Frank Pallone of New Jersey beat Rep. Anna Eshoo of California today for the ranking member post on the House Energy and Commerce Committee in a close race that divided the Democratic caucus and served as a rebuke to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

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