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Specially engineered biofuels crops may pose some environmental impacts, including increased risk of invasiveness, but most concerns can be alleviated by best management practices, according to a draft environmental review by the Department of Energy.

A legal fight in Mississippi is turning nasty as a bankrupt biofuel producer and its billionaire backer accuse state officials of employing a "hyper-aggressive litigation scheme."

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) is not giving up hope on a law that would prevent local levee authorities from suing oil and gas companies over damage they inflict on wetlands.

BP PLC and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. could face Clean Water Act penalties after failing to convince the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals otherwise.

The Supreme Court today declined to wade into a high-profile dispute over federal protections for a tiny threatened fish that limit California's ability to provide water to its residents.

Public perception surrounding dolphins and other marine mammals held in captivity is changing, bringing some long-awaited validation for outspoken dolphin activist Ric O'Barry.

Biologists monitoring wildlife in Big Sur, Calif., were taken by happy surprise last month with the discovery of a baby condor.

Eleven American Indian tribes from across the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains have joined together to ensure that federal officials don't abandon endangered species protections for the roughly 1,000 grizzly bears scientists say live in and around Yellowstone National Park.

A former senior Department of Energy official and his lobby firm have signed on to lobby for Calpine Corp., a major natural gas power producer.

Former Rep. Lee Terry (R-Neb.) is heading to K Street.

Former West Virginia Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller will join the Council on Foreign Relations as a distinguished fellow, the think tank said today.

SAN DIEGO -- From the opening bars of the national anthem, opposition to the Waters of the United States rule rang clear at the annual American Farm Bureau Federation meeting.

The White House is likely to roll out its strategy to curb methane emissions from the oil and natural gas sector this week ahead of next week's State of the Union address, and environmentalists are watching to see if it includes U.S. EPA's commitment to regulate new and existing sources of the potent greenhouse gas.

Attorneys for Nebraska landowners opposed to TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada said today more litigation is possible if the company insists on using the currently approved route.

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Major natural gas producers argued to the Supreme Court today that a federal law shields them from state antitrust lawsuits stemming from the California energy crisis.

Environmentalists are girding for an onslaught of new state bills to delay or kill U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan as state legislatures return to work beginning this week with Republicans now in control of two-thirds of the nation's legislative chambers.

As part of an ongoing dispute, the U.S. Department of Commerce recently moved to impose broad tariffs on solar panels from China. How will U.S. companies be affected by the latest round of tariffs? During today's OnPoint, John Smirnow, vice president of trade and competitiveness at the Solar Energy Industries Association, discusses the solar industry's reaction to the new sanctions and talks about a possible update to 2012 dumping estimates that could result in tariff reductions.

The death toll in Mozambique climbed to 72 people after three more of the hundreds poisoned by traditional beer at a child's funeral over the weekend died in the country's northeastern Chitima district.

An Icelandic brewery has caught the ire of environmentalists thanks to an unconventional ingredient in its latest brew.

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