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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will hear arguments Thursday morning in two cases brought by 15 states and energy companies seeking to block U.S. EPA from finalizing its greenhouse gas standards for power plants.

Polish air pollution officials are struggling to reduce smog in Krakow by stopping coal consumption.

Quebec plans to develop its northern Arctic region by 2020 in the hopes of generating investment and creating jobs.

Authorities in southeastern Siberia today confirmed at least 15 people, including a child, are dead; 393 people injured; and thousands homeless after grass fires started by farmers burned out of control.

A recent Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection order is the death knell for a controversial multibillion-dollar proposal to build a hydroelectric dam in western China, according to environmentalists who posted copies of the document online.

A Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources service center employee was disciplined last year for allegedly selling sex toys on the job, according to DNR records that show 20 agency staffers were formally reprimanded in 2014.

Washington state lawmakers failed to advance a bill to phase out plastic microbeads in a dispute over what type of plastic particles should be restricted.

Perhaps no area of California better illustrates the discrepancy in water use between populous areas and cities than the Imperial Valley.

Fifteen years after the Oscar-winning film "Erin Brockovich" showed a group of Hinkley, Calif., residents winning a $333 million verdict against Pacific Gas and Electric Co., the town is continuing to empty out and unanswered questions remain.

City officials in Chicago say a plume of rust in the Chicago River was the result of a surge of storm runoff and is not waste or raw sewage.

The Department of Transportation needs to heighten enforcement of training standards for employees responsible for awarding and managing billions of dollars in federal contracts, the agency's inspector general said in a audit report released this morning.

Enough jobs were added in the natural gas, wind and solar industries to offset job losses in the coal industry, but that was not the case in West Virginia and Kentucky, according to a new study.

Richard Post, a 96-year-old engineer studying renewable energy storage methods, died Tuesday in Walnut Creek, Calif.

Support for nuclear power currently sits at 51 percent and has fallen since the Obama administration first announced it would provide multimillion-dollar loan guarantees for new reactors in 2010, according to a new survey.

The FBI has joined state investigators looking into a fraud case involving six solar panel arrays installed for the Oregon University System.

A federal appeals court on Friday narrowly implemented a Supreme Court decision on U.S. EPA climate change rules, limiting the decision's impact to a smaller set of sources than industry and other challengers wanted.

The Cayman Islands have taken an "if you can't beat 'em, eat 'em" approach to invasive lionfish devouring smaller fish, shrimp and crab that protect coral reefs.

The Bureau of Land Management has finalized an updated management plan covering more than 1 million acres in west-central Colorado that includes an oil and natural gas master leasing plan with drilling restrictions in an already heavily leased area.

The departments of Energy and Defense and other federal agencies should collect demographic data about grant recipients to help ensure the "fair and equitable" allocation of billions of dollars in federal science grants, a group of lawmakers said in a letter today.

Jennifer Rokala, previously a top staffer to former Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.), will be the next executive director of the Center for Western Priorities.

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