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Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station's urgent need for more water to fill its troubled cooling canals got some relief this week from the South Florida Water Management District.

The operator of a California pipeline that ruptured and leaked oil into the Pacific Ocean says as much as 105,000 gallons of crude could have leaked during the spill.

French nuclear giant Areva Inc. signed an agreement yesterday to build and operate the first U.S. private, temporary storage site for spent reactor fuel in the arid western corner of Texas.

Cold days cause far more deaths than heat waves, according to a new study.

U.S. EPA is not commenting on claims that the administration has decided to drop a key mandate from a proposal to regulate carbon emissions from new power plants.

A federal magistrate judge has ruled that information about a Gulf of Mexico oil spill that has lasted a decade cannot be kept confidential.

Federal judges yesterday asked U.S. EPA for an updated timeline for when it plans to issue regulations requiring large industries like hardrock mining to assure the agency they can cover the costs of cleaning up pollution they cause.

The Obama administration this week urged the Supreme Court against reviewing claims by Mississippi that Tennessee is stealing groundwater.

A district judge in California yesterday rejected Barclays PLC's request to dismiss a $488 million fine from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for gaming the state's power markets.

HOUSTON -- A few battles ended yesterday in the legal war over the massive 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

The most famous gray wolf in Oregon and California is showing all the signs of becoming a father for a second straight year.

The Florida manatee faces a low risk of extinction, according to a new study that estimates a less than 1 percent chance the population dips below 250 adults over the next 100 years.

The National Marine Fisheries Service recently issued an "incidental harassment authorization" for a seismic survey off Alaska that could harass almost 10 percent of the endangered beluga whale population.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) said he believes the climate is changing but that determining man's contribution to global warming is complicated.

President Obama has scaled back his goal for a fully fuel-efficient government fleet and 1 million plug-in vehicles on U.S. roads as technology and sales lag behind what he hoped to achieve with his 2009 executive order.

A bipartisan alliance of 38 mayors from across the country called on Congress today to reauthorize and fully fund the nation's primary land conservation law.

President Obama should "quickly" nominate a permanent head for the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and nine Democratic colleagues said in a letter to the White House released today.

Democrats this week reintroduced legislation to protect as wilderness 9.2 million acres of Utah's scenic red rock desert, canyons and hoodoos.

The Senate voted today to close debate on its fast-track trade bill, paving the way for a final vote that is expected to take place before the Memorial Day recess.

Senate appropriators this afternoon approved a $35.4 billion measure to fund the Department of Energy and the Army Corps of Engineers.

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