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Honda Motor Co. will begin selling a hydrogen-powered car to Japanese customers in March 2016.

No pork is being sold at about one-third of Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc.'s approximately 1,700 U.S. restaurants to preserve the company's socially responsible reputation after an unnamed supplier was found in violation of its pig housing standards.

President Obama is requiring federal agencies to provide their employees with six weeks of paid parental leave.

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said today that his department is now getting a handle on some of the government's most massive projects.

U.S. EPA's watchdog office is launching an investigation into employees' use of text messages for official business.

U.S. EPA shed nearly 200 staffers in the latest round of buyout and early retirement offers, according to the agency.

Harold Hamm, chairman of Continental Resources Inc., is using more than a quarter of his majority stake in the Bakken oil shale giant as collateral for a personal loan.

The solar energy industry added tens of thousands of domestic jobs last year and will soon support almost twice as many jobs as the coal industry, according to a new report by nonprofit advocacy group the Solar Foundation.

In what's being dubbed a "David and Goliath" trial, Colombian farmers have sued oil giant BP PLC, saying it destroyed their land with mislaid pipeline.

In an effort to protect brown pelicans, workers have finished installing a series of vertical metal poles along Texas Highway 48 meant to direct the marine birds away from traffic.

Officials at Nevada's Great Basin National Park are baffled by the discovery of a Winchester rifle that appears to have been left propped up against a tree for more than 100 years.

A ranch owned by media mogul Ted Turner has asked permission to import endangered black-footed ferrets.

It took 19 days and plenty of bloody fingertips, but two climbers yesterday became the first ever to ascend a particular face of Yosemite National Park's El Capitan with only ropes to catch their falls.

The Fish and Wildlife Service today released a final policy to guide the growth of the 150-million-acre National Wildlife Refuge System, a plan that aims to maximize conservation investments to protect wildlife and taxpayer dollars.

The country's largest trade groups, especially energy and natural resources associations, are investing considerably more of their money in lobbying the public than federal officials, according to a new Center for Public Integrity investigation.

The Club for Growth will oppose legislation to shore up the Highway Trust Fund through tax increases or more transfers of general Treasury revenue and instead favors slashing the federal gas levy, the conservative group's president, David McIntosh, said in a letter to Republican congressional leaders released this morning.

The Center for American Progress this morning released a new poll of likely 2016 voters that it says found strong opposition to the energy and environmental agenda of the Republican leadership in Congress.

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, appeared to break from his GOP colleagues this week by offering an amendment to fast-track liquefied natural gas exports to 160 members of the World Trade Organization.

The American Petroleum Institute said this morning it would launch an ad campaign to coincide with the president's State of the Union address scheduled for Tuesday.

The White House has appointed the staff director of President Obama's Blue Ribbon Commission on nuclear waste to the second-highest post at the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy.

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