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Federal lands could be managed more cost-effectively and with better environmental results under a trust model used by Western states, according to a new report from a free-market think tank.

California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) makes lists of his environmental goals. While mayor of San Francisco, he carried clipboards and notes holding details on his targets, along with possible initiatives he'd jotted down while traveling through the city.

The Bureau of Land Management announced today that it will begin the formal permitting review process on a proposed commercial-scale solar power project in California for the first time in more than a year.

Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young suggested to his House colleagues yesterday that he'd like to introduce gray wolves into their congressional districts to clear up the "homeless problem."

Former Energy Department Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman is slated to take the helm of a uranium enrichment company that the federal government was found to have illegally propped up in recent years.

This week, Washington gears up for another Federal Energy Regulatory Commission technical conference on the Clean Power Plan, a visit from the nation's municipal electric utility leaders, a conference of the National League of Cities and a Senate panel discussion featuring state perspectives on the draft rule.

Five Greenpeace activists were detained in Paris today after dangling from a bridge over the Seine River and unrolling banners calling for cuts to France's nuclear power.

A plan by the Japanese government to bury 30 million tons of radioactive debris near the defunct Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is drawing criticism from locals, many of whom were victims of the 2011 tsunami.

Nearly 1 million birds were killed in two months by illegal poachers on a British military facility in Cyprus last year, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said.

Some states are refusing to adhere to new U.S. EPA restrictions on wood-burning stoves, saying that doing so could put low-income residents at risk.

U.S. EPA began air testing inside dozens of homes in California near two sites where trichloroethylene, benzene and chlorobenzene were dumped, seeking to determine whether a process called vapor intrusion is causing the chemicals to evaporate through the soil.

After disappointing sales of its electric vehicles in China, Tesla Motors Inc. plans to cut jobs there.

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has introduced a new tire concept that could generate electricity for electric cars.

Mass transit ridership climbed again last year to almost 10.8 billion trips, the highest level in 58 years, the American Public Transportation Association reported today.

More than 1 million federal employees are eligible to sue the government if they worked during the 2013 shutdown, according to the Justice Department.

The White House's recommendations for pollinator-friendly landscaping at federal facilities are "largely unachievable," according to trade groups for landscapers and florists.

Two Swiss pilots have begun a flight around the globe in a plane powered by solar energy.

Clocks rolled forward an hour over the weekend, but campaigns in several states are looking to make daylight saving time permanent, citing a predicted reduction in heart attacks.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. did not check whether $842 million in new equipment at the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant could pass a seismic safety test before starting the work in 2008.

One coal miner was killed and two were injured in an accident at a Marshall County, W.Va., mine late Sunday, authorities said.

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