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Scientists considering a new version of the nation's dietary guidelines have been warned by Congress not to consider the environmental impact of different food choices.

Newly introduced legislation by Rep. John Delaney (D-Md.) would tap U.S. multinational corporations' earnings held overseas to help pay for a six-year highway and transit bill.

Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) is blocking a Democrat-backed bill that would use revenue from the sale of federal lands to prevent sand and gravel mining on the edge of a Southern California national monument.

The Senate may have to stay in this weekend to wrap up its year-end business but could be finished today if Republicans would agree to speed up the process, outgoing Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said today.

LIMA, Peru -- U.S. officials fought hard in the U.N. climate talks that ended here yesterday for a deal that would play well with the American public.

The head of the International Energy Agency called coal's continued global growth "unsustainable" without the faster deployment of technologies to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

Obama administration officials from the lower rungs of government, not just A-list figures like Vice President Joe Biden, have often used a vacation lodge in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park.

President Obama's critics have seized on recent reports about environmentalists swaying EPA's climate plans as proof that the administration has improperly schemed with greens to set environmental policy. But the practice of borrowing outsiders' policies -- and the scathing rhetoric that is unleashed when it's uncovered by opposition -- are nothing new. "Thus has it ever been," said Scott Segal, an industry lobbyist at Bracewell & Giuliani.

What role could advanced nuclear technology play as part of the solution to climate change? During today's OnPoint, Joshua Freed, director of Third Way's Clean Energy Program, discusses private-sector funding and progress on advanced nuclear and the role the federal government could play in helping to commercialize these technologies. He also discusses the potential for nuclear legislation during the 114th Congress.

Two years after a court ordered the government to clean up a polluted creek, residents in a small village in western Thailand are still suffering from lead poisoning, said the Human Rights Watch today.

A proposal to ban diesel cars in Paris is creating an uproar from local drivers.

Having eased environmental regulations two years ago, Wisconsin has spent nearly $260,000 to oversee a proposed iron mine in northern Wisconsin.

The lava flow that has threatened the small town of Pahoa, Hawaii, for months is set to reach a supermarket and gas station in seven to 10 days, said officials.

Teaching that humans have contributed to global climate change could soon be allowed in Wyoming classrooms if a Sheridan Republican has his way in the Legislature.

A plan to eliminate landfill waste in Maryland in the next 25 years is drawing criticism for not being environmentally friendly.

Authorities in Minnesota are investigating after 9,000 gallons of anhydrous ammonia leaked from a fertilizer plant yesterday.

Scientists said yesterday that they have detected a drug-resistant "super bacteria" in the waters near Rio de Janeiro, where Olympic sailing events will be held in 2016.

As Chesapeake Bay states undertake a major effort to stanch the flow of nutrient pollution into the long-ailing estuary, Obama administration officials and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) today touted the possibilities offered by market-based trading programs.

PacifiCorp notified 182 employees they were out of a job yesterday with the closure of the Deer Creek mine in central Utah.

The San Diego branch of SeaWorld Entertainment is downsizing as controversy in the wake of the documentary "Blackfish" prompts it to restructure nationwide.

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