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Residents in a Kansas town may still live on top of contaminated soil that U.S. EPA determined to be an "imminent and substantial" threat 10 years ago, according to a…

Swiss commodities trader Glencore International PLC announced new delays to its $76 billion merger with miner Xstrata PLC because of ongoing regulatory problems in China. Today, Glencore said it had…

Royal Dutch Shell PLC is set to enlarge its research and development budget over the next few years while it looks to bolster extraction of traditional hydrocarbons and push into…

Oil industry groups have claimed that more natural gas drilling will help manufacturing jobs rebound in the United States, but it may take years for that to happen. If more…

The former director of the U.S. Geological Survey, Marcia McNutt, will become the next editor in chief of the journal Science and its associated publications. McNutt will become the first…

The Republican grandson of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is planning to pump carbon dioxide into the ground in an effort to free oil hidden deep beneath the surface. Elliott Roosevelt…

A long-delayed coal-fired generation plant has gotten another extension on its construction target. Members of Wyoming's Industrial Siting Council approved a proposal to delay construction of the Two Elk Energy…

The number of babies born with a thyroid disorder jumped in five West Coast states following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster in Japan, a new study says. Positive tests…

A Washington, D.C.-based federal judge struck down a plan from the federal government that would have eliminated the "critical habitat" designation on nearly 4 million acres set aside for the…

A federal judge yesterday decided that Transocean Ltd. must turn documents related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster over to federal investigators. Following the rig explosion and oil spill, the…

Dominion Resources Inc. will retire an Indiana coal-fired power plant and spend nearly $10 million on environmental mitigation projects at two others in Illinois and Massachusetts as part of a…

A soil bacteria might help land managers in the western United States get rid of cheatgrass. The invasive plant, brought to the country by 19th-century settlers, covers millions of acres…

Sharpshooters killed about 20 deer in last week's cull at Washington, D.C.'s Rock Creek Park. The National Park Service had aimed to harvest between 60 and 70 deer -- which…

Southern California residents for months have been finding abandoned sea lion pups washed ashore, malnourished and unusually sick. Although it's not unusual to find some abandoned pups, this year's strandings…

Interstate 90 is a vital transportation corridor linking the farms of eastern Washington state with the ports of Puget Sound. On a typical day, 27,000 vehicles travel over Snoqualmie Pass…

A widely used method of pest control regarded to be friendlier to the environment than pesticides may not be as effective as originally thought, according to a new study. The…

With just four weeks to go before a special Democratic Senate primary in Massachusetts, Rep. Ed Markey continues to hold a substantial lead over Rep. Stephen Lynch, according to a…

Two Washington heavyweights are slated to introduce Ernest Moniz, President Obama's nominee to lead the Energy Department, when he's vetted by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee next week.…

Concerned that top U.S. EPA officials use instant messaging technology to get around federal disclosure requirements, two free-market groups have filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in U.S. District…

Regulatory watchers already concerned that the federal rulemaking process is agonizingly slow won't be happy to learn that staffers in the small White House office responsible for vetting every rule…

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