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The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today approved President Obama's nominee to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, but with time running out in the lame-duck session, it remains unclear if the nomination will be confirmed by year's end.

Fifth in a series on energy and environment staffers worth watching in 2015.

U.S. EPA isn't alone in rejecting doomsday predictions about the effects its Clean Power Plan will have on the nation's energy sector and sprawling electric grid.

LIMA, Peru -- The paths of two former Democratic presidential nominees will cross today at U.N. climate talks here with each pressing for an ambitious new global warming deal at next year's negotiations in Paris.

The House today barely advanced a massive spending bill in a tough vote that signals potential trouble ahead for the $1 trillion measure meant to prevent a government shutdown at midnight.

In an effort to ensure its World Heritage status isn't downgraded, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is forming a task force to convince UNESCO World Heritage Committee delegates that the Great Barrier Reef is not endangered.

Chinese officials are celebrating the opening today of one section of a water-transport system initially proposed by former Communist Party leader Mao Zedong in the 1950s.

Key proposals to reduce fatal pollution levels and increase recycling are set to be withdrawn from the European Union, according to leaked documents.

Backers of an Oregon ballot measure to require labels on genetically modified food conceded defeat yesterday, after they lost a court ruling and a recount appeared unlikely to change the election result.

Gov. Rick Scott (R) has tapped Jon Steverson to lead Florida's Department of Environmental Protection.

Children of mothers exposed to levels of two phthalates consistent with normal exposure had significantly lower IQs than those who weren't, according to Columbia University researchers.

A small chemical company in Georgia is trying to make safer products, though it's still dealing with the remnants of its more toxic past.

Some of the nation's largest companies -- including social media firm Facebook Inc., Autodesk Inc., hospital chain Dignity Health, Genentech Inc. and Staples Inc. -- have pledged to preferentially purchase furniture that does not contain flame retardant chemicals, as an environmental group also released a list of suppliers offering the products.

The Coast Guard reported a small oil spill yesterday in Sandy Hook Bay, N.J.

Xcel Energy Inc. is set to begin accepting applications today from private energy developers to build large solar parks in Minnesota.

As trade disputes over solar panels embroil other countries, the conflict has helped Malaysia come out ahead.

The Energy Department yesterday proposed new energy efficiency standards for residential dishwashers.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will weigh concerns Thursday about coal deliveries to utilities at its monthly meeting in Washington, D.C.

LIMA, Peru -- Diplomats trying to craft a new global climate agreement boiled down a negotiating text from a stew of 60 pages to seven overnight, but critics say most of the ingredients are lacking, insufficient, unclear or just plain bad for the planet.

BP PLC yesterday appealed a federal district court's ruling that it was grossly negligent in its actions leading up to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

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