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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) considered filling a top-level position in the state Department of Natural Resources with a mining industry lobbyist backing a controversial mine, according to documents obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via open records law.

A group of environmental organizations have filed suit against U.S. EPA to force the agency to crack down on pollution from coal-fired power plants in Utah.

A chain reaction of ship collisions yesterday spilled almost 420 gallons of oil into the Mississippi River near Convent, La.

California and federal officials are planning to release new details within weeks of their controversial plan to tunnel underneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

Efforts to curb pollution in the Chesapeake Bay watershed over the past five years are apparently working, a regional organization overseeing the restoration said in a report released yesterday.

Within five years, anyone with a smartphone may be able to access information on harmful algal blooms in his or her local lake, thanks to a new $3.6 million federal research project.

Biotechnology firms and advocacy organizations backed by food manufacturers have opposed regulations to require foods made with genetically modified organisms to be labeled, citing claimed increased costs to consumers.

British banking giant Barclays PLC is turning its back from financing mountaintop-removal coal mining projects, according to a new policy statement touted by environmental groups today.

The operator of a Northern California wind farm blamed for bird deaths has been a significant donor to three Alameda County supervisors who recently voted to let the company keep operating the site.

A 25-turbine wind project planned for Maryland's Somerset County has been scrapped, with developers blaming unforeseen political obstacles.

A team of scientists from Virginia Tech has discovered a way to produce hydrogen out of corn waste to power cars, reducing costs and carbon emissions.

Two major oil companies yesterday asked a federal appeals court to reconsider its decision that they must pay federal rates for moving oil in an 800-mile Alaska pipeline that doesn't leave the state.

Feral chickens on the Hawaiian island of Kauai have given researchers insight into evolution.

An alleged poaching ship sank off the coast of West Africa under suspicious circumstances after one of the longest ocean pursuits in history, according to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

More frequent wildfires could spread radiation from the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine to other European countries, scientists warn.

Maryland has cracked down on oyster poaching in the Chesapeake Bay as part of the largest oyster restoration project on the East Coast, but frustrated commercial watermen are now pushing to weaken penalties and open oyster sanctuaries.

Drought conditions helped fuel a drastic improvement in the clarity of Lake Tahoe last year, researchers reported today.

Development pressures around the Grand Canyon earned the stretch of Colorado River running through the park the title of "most endangered river" in this year's annual ranking of U.S. rivers by the nonprofit American Rivers.

Alaskans blasted proposed new federal waters rules yesterday at a Senate subcommittee field hearing in Alaska.

In what's billed as a two-day "road show," House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) is traveling across his home state today and tomorrow with the goal of drumming up awareness of public works needs.

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