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Following a worldwide trend, Maryland may outlaw the shark fin trade in the state. The state's House of Delegates this week passed legislation that would do just that. It now…

Skeptics of mountaintop wind power in Vermont were disappointed yesterday when the state Senate reduced the scope of a bill to study its impacts. The bill originally called for an…

California officials promised yesterday to continue pushing for a new fire safety rule that would ban the use of toxic flame retardants in household furniture and baby products sold across…

A West Virginia Senate committee yesterday approved a plan to kill state tax credits for alternative fuel vehicles, including electric cars. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin (D) has endorsed the plan.…

Some of the cleanup operations surrounding Superstorm Sandy have focused not only on getting rid of wreckage left behind but also on finding debris that may be recycled. Since the…

A broken pipe from an oil sands project may have spilled contaminated water into Canada's Athabasca River. A 4-inch pipe carrying wastewater from Suncor Energy Inc.'s oil sands project in…

The Natural Resources Defense Council and water utilities across the country are calling for new standards for water meters to stave off the effects of dripping faucets and leaky toilets.…

Cells are dramatically altered when they're exposed to certain mixtures of environmentally prevalent chemicals, according to a study released Monday. The study tested pituitary cell responses to combinations of three…

After problems with the National Flood Insurance Program were revealed in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, people can expect significant rate hikes, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency…

The Mine Safety and Health Administration is reducing grants to states and delaying internal regulatory improvements because of the sequester's across-the-board budget cuts. MSHA chief Joe Main told stakeholders recently…

An American-Japanese consortium and a Russian-led team are competing to build two new nuclear reactors with $10 billion in Czech tender. Both companies, Russia's Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corp. and…

France's power grid may not be able to handle increasing numbers of electric cars if owners all recharge the batteries when they sit down for dinner, energy executives said. The…

Longtime proponents of California's bullet train have begun to criticize the project they supported for so long. The compromises that have been made to keep the $68 billion project afloat…

The British government is setting up a command center that will work with businesses to analyze data and fight cyberthreats. The program, the Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership, will source…

A Maryland energy company is planning to generate 500 megawatts of power using a massive hollow tower it plans to construct on the Arizona-Mexico border. Solar Wind Energy Inc. has…

Nebraska utility officials said yesterday that a problematic nuclear plant that has sat idle since 2011 may be able to restart this spring, but first they will have to convince…

The widows of two men who died as the result of a Gulf of Mexico oil platform explosion last year are suing the platform's owner and operator, Black Elk Energy…

A legal fight that might define the limits of water pollution enforcement at Appalachian strip mines is now before the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. At issue…

Two of the largest biotech seed companies announced yesterday that they have inked a multibillion-dollar agreement to share technology rights over the next decade. As part of the deal, Monsanto…

The best way to stem the decline of lions in Africa is to fence them in and keep them away from people and livestock, researchers said in a new study.…

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