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Combatting a coal surplus and bad air pollution, China has placed a moratorium on new mines in its eastern region.

State regulators will take a second look at sand mining regulations after the state's Natural Resources Board voted yesterday to conduct a "strategic analysis" of the industry.

Oil companies in North Dakota are working to change the state's waste disposal laws to cut down on their radioactive waste disposal costs.

One Maryland lawmaker says the state has been put in a regulatory limbo by the new governor's decision to withdraw rules on farm pollution in the Chesapeake Bay.

Wisconsin lawmakers could not agree on what impact the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan was likely to have on their state at a joint hearing held yesterday, and one regulator said the state could spend $3 billion to $13 billion trying to comply.

California regulators again cited battery recycling firm Exide Technologies, issuing eight hazardous waste violations to the company yesterday.

U.S. EPA is working on a plan to prevent a growing trend of corn rootworms that cannot be killed by genetically modified crops engineered to control the pest.

The Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory failed to properly guard classified information in six instances, a review from the agency's inspector general has found.

The Department of Energy has agreed to pay a hefty fine to U.S. EPA for running afoul of hazardous waste law.

Regardless of which team comes out on top this Sunday, energy efficiency is set to be a winner in the Super Bowl.

State investigators searched the homes of former California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey and a former Pacific Gas and Electric Co. executive, seizing computers and other items as part of an ongoing investigation into the utility's effort to have a case heard by a favorable judge.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board voted last night to approve a final report of a refinery fire at Chevron Corp.'s Richmond, Calif., facility in 2012, calling for the company to make safety changes.

The Energy Department yesterday unveiled the first-ever proposed energy efficiency standards for gas fireplaces and other hearth products.

Bidders were interested in only half the offshore wind development leases being auctioned by the Interior Department today.

Pentagon officials and the nuclear industry today urged the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to ease regulations that bar foreign investment in U.S. nuclear plants.

Stanford University scientists have developed a new technique to survey for offshore oil and gas deposits that is less harmful to marine life and cheaper than current methods of detecting hydrocarbons, an important discovery in light of the White House announcement this week to expand offshore drilling.

The world cannot meet its future food needs and produce bioenergy at the same time, a new report from the World Resources Institute found.

Nina Fedoroff, a molecular biologist and adviser to the Bush and Obama administrations, has joined agricultural law firm Olsson Frank Weeda Terman Matz PC as a senior science adviser, the firm announced yesterday.

Hawaiian corals that suffered stress from warm ocean temperatures last year have recovered, but officials are worried their future resilience may be compromised.

With the Everglades already home to one species of invasive python, Florida wildlife officials are hoping to keep another type of snake from following suit.

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