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Some residents of the San Francisco Bay Area have reported a sour smell and bitter taste in their drinking water, which officials say is the result of algae in an area reservoir that shouldn't affect the water's safety.

The Coachella Valley aquifer is something of an anomaly these days. Despite an ongoing drought in California, the aquifer remains plentiful.

Speed limits in 14 states do not align with safe speeds for most truck tires, in a discrepancy that can have disastrous results.

An alternative grain is helping farmers weather sinking corn, soybean and wheat prices while supplying Chinese hog farmers and moonshiners.

Appalachian coal companies are trapped by falling coal prices.

The U.S. biodiesel industry has petitioned U.S. EPA to halt a program for Argentinian imports of biodiesel.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is investigating what led to the failure of equipment during an early March test at Entergy Operations Inc.'s River Bend plant in Louisiana.

BP PLC says its U.S. oil business does not have enough equity to pay a fifth of the fines that U.S. prosecutors say the British oil company owes for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Domestic gasoline consumption fell 11 percent between 2004 and 2013, despite the United States' population increasing by 8 percent, according to a new paper out of the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute.

A recent gas explosion at a New York City apartment building could be the result of someone improperly tapping into the building's gas line, which authorities say can be a risky practice.

A series of reports about an efficient but potentially damaging form of coal mining in Pennsylvania have rekindled the debate over how to regulate the practice.

The endangered pangolin faces dire threats from poaching, but the animal, which can roll into a ball when threatened, is struggling to gain attention amid more high-profile anti-trafficking campaigns.

Endangered Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep are back in their original home range for the first time in a century.

The National Marine Fisheries Service is again considering whether to list porbeagle sharks under the Endangered Species Act, after a federal court vacated the agency's 2010 decision to reject listing petitions from two environmental groups.

The Agriculture Department today announced $332 million for the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program -- ACEP -- for 2015, a slight increase from last year's allocation of $328 million.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell has promoted the agency's top communications official to be a senior adviser helping advance Jewell's energy and conservation agenda.

Journalists and the White House are still at odds over the press's access to federal agencies.

Democratic senators sent a letter Friday calling on the leaders of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies to preserve funding for the Agriculture Department's conservation programs, despite the Obama administration's budget request to cut those efforts.

Companies that operate on public lands in Utah have yet to plug and reclaim more than 1,000 nonproducing oil and gas wells, according to a new report by a Bureau of Land Management retiree who served the agency for two decades.

San Diego resident Louis Marinelli wants California to take back power from the federal government, making the state more of a quasi-nation.

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