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The Pentagon's promise to develop 3 gigawatts of renewable energy on Army, Navy and Air Force installations by 2025 is heating up with a new biomass power plant at Fort Drum.

The Department of Energy on Friday approved some export of liquefied natural gas from a proposed Alaskan pipeline.

An Irish investor is being ordered by a federal jury to pay $2 million in damages to an Iowa doctor in a conflict over an ethanol development in Croatia.

A Baltimore jury Friday awarded $5 million to two women who said they suffered permanent brain damage from ingesting lead paint in a home they rented 20 years ago.

An Amish couple is facing misdemeanor charges in Minnesota after attempting to build a house without a basic system for water disposal.

Federal judges appeared reluctant today to question the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's determination that a Northern California hydropower facility requires a federal license.

A plan to make Craters of the Moon a national park could cross Idaho off the list as the last Western state without a park totally within its borders.

Yellowstone National Park officials opened up a public comment period Friday for a proposal to build an ecological monitoring station in the park to track the effects of climate change, invasive species and other factors over the next 30 years.

Alligators are thriving in most of Florida after a brush with extinction, but biologists indicate populations in the Everglades are continuing to shrink while costs mount to restore their habitat.

The Interior Department today announced it will hold an auction Jan. 29 of 742,000 acres of federal waters off Massachusetts for commercial wind development, the agency's largest competitive lease sale to date.

The Interior Department late last week confirmed that a female northern Rockies gray wolf wandered more than 450 miles across rugged terrain and busy interstate highways to the north rim of the Grand Canyon, likely in search of a mate.

The Republican Party's weekly radio address doubled as a campaign message for Louisiana Rep. Bill Cassidy (R) on Saturday, as the GOP Senate nominee urged voters to support his Dec. 6 runoff bid.

A quartet of House Democrats from the sunny states of Arizona and Texas are asking the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for assurances that consumers are being shielded from misleading sale practices as a nascent rooftop solar market rapidly expands.

Eight governors have lobbied the White House to open up access to offshore oil and gas deposits through an organization called the Outer Continental Shelf Governors Coalition.

Two conservative groups announced today they will continue urging lawmakers to end a key renewable energy tax credit through print and online advertisements and other efforts to mobilize activists in their home states.

A Massachusetts-based wind energy company has hired Podesta Group, one of K Street's highest-profile lobby shops.

Officials in the Army Corps of Engineers headquarters pushed against conducting a full environmental impact statement for the smallest of three proposed coal export projects in the Pacific Northwest, according to newly released documents.

Negotiators will converge on Lima, Peru, one week from today for the final round of U.N. climate change talks before next year's Paris summit, which is intended to produce an agreement on emissions and finance.

A federal appeals court struggled today with a second challenge from home builders to an Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. EPA determination that two stretches of an Arizona river are navigable and qualify for Clean Water Act protections.

Lawmakers are quietly pressing U.S. EPA to answer for personnel scandals and management concerns.

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