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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission yesterday made clear it will not reconsider its approval of a controversial Maryland export terminal, a project that's become a rallying cry for climate activists opposed to hydraulic fracturing.

When U.S. EPA hears public comment next week on how smaller utilities should be treated in its plan for curbing carbon from power plants, nonprofit electricity providers will offer recommendations that they hope will be adopted elsewhere in the rulemaking process.

A chef caught serving whale meat at a sushi restaurant in a Southern California airport was sentenced yesterday in federal court.

Eight law professors have sought permission to file friend-of-the-court briefs in support of a U.S. EPA decision on where to draw the boundary for administering federal Clean Air Act regulations on a American Indian reservation in Wyoming.

Authorities arrested New York state Senate leader Dean Skelos (R) and his son yesterday on charges Skelos used his position to take official actions to benefit an environmental management firm.

In a twist from the usual script, environmental groups have sued a New Jersey theme park over plans to build a solar farm.

A Californian will head up the Energy, Environment and Resources Practice Group at Duane Morris LLP.

Environmental groups are asking the Supreme Court to pass on an Alaska case involving the Clean Water Act's "permit shield."

A major coal company's challenge to a safety enforcement action in federal court today boiled down to a single question: Where there is smoke, is there fire?

Federal judges yesterday denied requests by Texas, Wyoming and industry groups to reconsider a ruling upholding U.S. EPA's requirement that the states include greenhouse gas emissions in their air permitting regime.

The price for another white meat has doubled in the past three years as Florida alligator farmers and hunters struggle to supply enough gator tail, ribs and tenderloin.

Nearly two decades after Almiyi appeared on a postage stamp, cancer forced San Diego Zoo officials to euthanize the 32-year-old California condor.

The Atlantic hurricane season is beginning a month early this year, with the National Hurricane Center in Miami predicting the first storm of the summer could form along the East Coast by Thursday or Friday.

Wildfires will have up to 12.5 million trees' worth of extra fuel this season due to the drought that decimated California state forests this year.

Researchers have spent the last three years mapping the path migrating birds take from their winter homes to their summer breeding grounds as wind turbines spring up along the Atlantic Coast, posing a potential threat to avian travelers.

The Agriculture Department announced yesterday the second round of proposed funding for the Regional Conservation Partnership Program, a new model for conservation that USDA hopes will let agencies achieve more with less money.

With the aid of the Fish and Wildlife Service and other groups, the Crime Museum in Washington, D.C., announced plans today for an exhibit focused on the real costs of the illicit trade in endangered species and products made from them.

A new smartphone app created by the U.S. Geological Survey is serving dual scientific purposes along the Atlantic Coast.

Biofuel producers have asked President Obama for a "high level White House meeting" on U.S. EPA's forthcoming rule setting renewable fuel mandates for 2014, 2015 and 2016.

A majority of voters in the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire say energy will be a top issue in the 2016 presidential election, a new poll shows.

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