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If coal companies get their way when the Supreme Court reviews U.S. EPA's air standards for mercury and other hazardous emissions, they could undermine their primary legal challenge to another landmark pollution rule: President Obama's greenhouse gas limits for power plants.

Two nuclear reactors were given clearance by Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority today.

A controversial petroleum pipeline running through the Upper Peninsula released an undetermined amount of natural gas liquid, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette (R) announced yesterday.

Some Californians have turned to rain-catching systems in the face of the state's crippling drought.

Multiple health and environmental groups have sued oil company Tesoro Corp. over its plans to expand a Salt Lake City refinery.

A proposed rule from the Agriculture Department's Agricultural Marketing Service would allow organic producers to opt out of paying for conventional commodity checkoff programs, organizations that promote or fund research for a certain crop, livestock or other farm product.

The reuse of coal-combustion waste has dropped in recent years, a trend utilities and recyclers blame on the potential for U.S. EPA to regulate the material as hazardous.

Crop dusting is becoming more dangerous by the day as wind turbines pop up across rural landscapes.

Utility owner Pepco Holdings Inc. has for years been the butt of jokes, protests, even candlelit rock ballads about the scourge of power outages in the utility's Washington, D.C., and Maryland footprint.

The veteran clean energy advocate Rocky Mountain Institute announced yesterday that it is partnering with the Carbon War Room, the breakout business solutions organization founded by Virgin Airlines CEO Richard Branson.

The federal government and five American Indian tribes in California have finally settled a decadeslong legal dispute over water rights to the San Luis Rey River.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) said yesterday he will review whether to continue using hunting and fishing fees to help cover the costs of a proposed iron mine in northern Wisconsin after the practice drew scrutiny from conservationists and political opponents.

The Obama administration today pressed the Supreme Court to reject appeals by California water contractors and some farmers to review an appellate court decision upholding the Fish and Wildlife Service's ruling that California's complicated water infrastructure endangers a small threatened fish.

Marine scientists at the University of Oregon are going to pay a $175,000 reward for the best "big data" approach to sort through tens of millions of photographs of plankton.

Researchers at the University of Guelph say they have created a drug to stop a honeybee-killing pathogen from doing harm.

New Zealand might love nature more than any other country per capita.

Environmentalists and regulators are working with California dairy farmers to help save the endangered tricolored blackbird.

A pregnant killer whale found dead in Canada died from a bacterial infection, according to preliminary necropsy results.

After more than four years of closure, commercial fishermen are now allowed to fish around Elmer's and Grand Terre islands off the Louisiana coast, according to the state's Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.

Native American groups are pressing the State Department to intervene against water pollution from several Canadian mining projects in northern British Columbia near the Alaska border.

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