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Senate and House Republican leaders have introduced bills allowing the U.S. Export-Import Bank to operate beyond June without new anti-coal policies that are part of President Obama's climate plan.

The Department of Energy has been slow to take on radioactive buildings for cleanup, despite a promise to do so years ago, the Government Accountability Office has found.

Like the murkiest waters of the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland's phosphorus regulations have been a tricky political quagmire for a state eager to clean up its waterfront. But after four years of back-and-forth between farm groups and environmentalists, a phosphorous management plan will finally get a chance to roll into motion.

President Obama's senior climate adviser thinks Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's campaign for states to ignore pending power plant rules is way out of line.

The Obama administration released its final rule today for drilling and hydraulic fracturing on federal land, its biggest foray yet into the divisive issue many call "fracking." The rule announced by Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, offered something for each side in the divisive debate.

What jurisdictional challenges exist within states between air agencies and public utility commissions in determining how best to comply with U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan? During today's OnPoint, Bob Martineau, president of the Environmental Council of the States and a commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, explains how states are working behind the scenes to figure out next steps on the power plan.

Executives of the nation's largest electric utilities are optimistic that U.S. EPA's final Clean Power Plan will give states more time to start implementing carbon cuts, following a meeting with agency officials last week. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and air chief Janet McCabe sat down with the Edison Electric Institute executive board Wednesday to hear the utility industry's chief concerns with the proposed rule as the agency moves toward finalizing the regulation this summer.

Pakistanis in the forest-covered mountains of the Gilgit-Baltistan region are armed with new powers to battle illegal loggers and corrupt government officials.

British wild horses have been deployed to a former military zone in the Czech Republic with the mission to defend biodiversity.

Japan has rejected imports of Norwegian whale meat because tests found pesticides at levels twice the country's food safety standards, according to documents released by two environmental organizations.

The Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners rejected a measure banning coyote hunting contests Friday by a 7-1 vote.

Federal prosecutors struck a deal this month with the operator of a Vernon, Calif., battery recycling plant, but much remains unanswered about how the company will fix decades of pollution and hazardous waste.

Scientific evidence shows that glyphosate, the main ingredient in the Monsanto Co. pesticide Roundup, is a "probable carcinogen," according to an international health organization.

A New Hampshire-based company is teaming up with food giant Perdue Inc. to build a $200 million anaerobic digester that will collect and use nearly all of the chicken manure on the Chesapeake Bay's Eastern Shore.

Trains derailed in Texas and Colorado over the weekend, leaking industrial solvent in one case and dumping coal in the other.

In a rare midyear change, the Pentagon has cut the price it charges military branches for refined fuel.

Fewer scientists and engineers at the Department of Energy are attending conferences after tough travel restrictions have come into play.

When Molycorp Inc. reopened an old rare earth elements mine in California in 2010, policymakers and technology firms saw it as America's answer to Chinese limits on exports of the coveted materials.

An Oklahoma oil and gas company has filed a lawsuit against the developers of a nearby wind farm, saying the company was not given adequate notice of construction.

An electrical issue forced the nation's oldest nuclear power plant to shut down yesterday.

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