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A supply vessel collided with an oil platform in the North Sea yesterday, but no one was injured and no oil was spilled, operator Apache Corp. said.

A biofuels company backed by a multi-agency defense program announced plans today to start construction this summer on a biorefinery in Oregon.

Authorities in northern Idaho charged a woman who allegedly beat a hunter's falcon to death with a beaded scarf after seeing it prey on a duck.

A federal judge has ruled that the state of Washington must dismantle its water pollution task force and instead set limits on the amount of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, that can be discharged into the Spokane River.

Environmental groups are threatening to sue the Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement, hoping the agency strips West Virginia regulators of oversight powers.

Larry Boggs, a longtime environmental attorney for General Electric Co., has joined Crowell & Moring.

For the first time since 1947, a pair of bald eagles may have reproduced in Washington, D.C.

A Canadian company's supply barge that broke free of its tug in October is now drifting near the Russian coast.

Florida's annual statewide manatee survey has counted more of the marine mammals than ever before.

Wildlife managers in Idaho yesterday blamed avian cholera for the deaths of at least 2,000 migrating snow geese because of the way the birds died.

Several environmental and conservation groups are objecting to a Forest Service plan to allow mineral exploration inside Idaho's Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration plans to update nautical charts for the Arctic, using new data that covers almost 12,000 nautical miles to ease the way for increasing commercial shipping traffic.

A national mining group is blasting federal efforts to protect and restore sagebrush ecosystems that are critical to the survival of the greater sage grouse and other species in the Great Basin from threats posed by wildfires and invasive plant species.

Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist announced yesterday that he will not run for Senate in 2016.

Al Gore, the former vice president-turned-climate change activist, says he's becoming more optimistic about humans' ability to avoid the impacts of climate change.

A government employee union is accusing House Republicans of treating federal workers with "contempt and derision" in their latest budget proposal.

An electronic draft of an industry-backed bill to overhaul how the federal government manages toxic substances bore the fingerprints of a key player: the American Chemistry Council.

Disasters are taking an increasing toll on lives and property, according to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management, which is making the issue the focus of a roundtable discussion tomorrow.

Legislation expected in the House and Senate today would block U.S. EPA's efforts to toughen the national ozone standard.

Liberal senators and an animal rights activist this morning took shots at provisions in a bipartisan sportsmen's package that would strengthen Second Amendment rights on public lands and protect the use of lead-based ammunition and fishing tackle.

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