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A measure that would decrease payments to paper companies that burn a byproduct of the pulping process last week failed by one vote to pass a state House committee. The…

New federal flood insurance maps are putting the people of Plaquemines Parish, the swampy land-and-water tip of Louisiana, in a difficult situation: Spend more than $100,000 to elevate their homes,…

Mounting research on the impact of endocrine-disrupting chemicals compelled a group of scientists from around the world to sound an alarm today in a statement intended for other scientists and…

Corporate sponsorships and souvenir egg sales have helped keep at least one National Park Service program afloat this year: the White House's annual Easter Egg Roll. Today, about 35,000 people…

Jonathan Powers is leading the way to a greener government as the White House's federal environmental executive. Powers first began focusing on sustainability while serving as an Army platoon leader…

A new fence next to a Tennessee nuclear facility hinders free speech rights, anti-nuclear protesters say. The grassy area next to the Energy Department's Y-12 National Security Complex has long…

The sales of Tesla Motors' electric sedans are higher than predicted with the company expecting to show a profit for the first quarter of this year. The company made 4,750…

A bankrupt stimulus-funded electric car battery maker will still use the name A123 in its new life as part of a Chinese auto manufacturer, the company said late last week,…

An $800 million project that was slated to provide 100,000 homes with coal-fired power and supply dozens of people with full-time jobs has been stalled for 17 years. The Two…

International oil companies are seeking offshore oil in the Caribbean, often with the full support of nearby countries hoping to become more energy independent and diversify their economies. An increasing…

Lawmakers in half the states with renewable energy standards for electric utilities are mulling a scale-back of those requirements. Of the 29 states that have renewable energy purchasing mandates, at…

A piece of heavy equipment fell yesterday at a nuclear power plant in Arkansas, killing one worker and injuring three others. The plant's owner, Entergy Corp., shut down two nuclear…

Crews from Exxon Mobil Corp. are continuing to clean up thousands of barrels of oil that spilled in Arkansas over the weekend. The leak from Exxon's Pegasus pipeline -- which…

Researchers have engineered plants that can provide large amounts of sugar with a less intensive and expensive extractive process, the Energy Department's Joint BioEnergy Institute announced Friday. Institute scientists were…

A federal judge sentenced the owner of Texas-based biodiesel company Absolute Fuels LLC on Friday to 15 years and eight months in prison for selling tens of millions of dollars…

If an appeals court ruling throwing out U.S. EPA's cross-state air pollution rule stands, it will have "serious adverse consequences" for air quality in the United States, the agency told…

The Supreme Court today denied a call from industry to review U.S. EPA's air pollution standard for nitrogen dioxide pollution. In deciding against hearing the petition from the American Petroleum…

The promise of a genetically modified blight-resistant potato is giving hope to some in Ireland, where the rot that led to the Great Famine of 1840 remains a constant threat.…

The rabbit once so common in New England that it inspired author Thornton Burgess to write "The Adventures of Peter Cottontail" could now be in jeopardy. The New England cottontail…

Workers in the southwestern Philippines have removed the final major part of a U.S. Navy minesweeper from a protected coral reef where it ran aground in January, officials said yesterday.…

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