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Consumers are 10 times more likely to pay for more expensive electricity from renewable energy if it is the default option rather than an "opt-in" plan, according to a new Stanford University study.

The Energy Department today finalized the last remaining portion of an $8 billion loan guarantee for the country's first new reactors in more than three decades, despite the project's delays and escalating costs.

The ultimate cost of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill to BP PLC could be $60.2 billion to $68.2 billion, analysts say.

Four flight attendants have filed a lawsuit against Boeing Co. in response to toxic fumes they contend leaked into an Alaska Airlines flight in 2013.

A decades-old pollution case concerning nuclear weapons production in Colorado will be remanded to the district court that in 2006 ordered companies that ran the facility to pay damages of $353 million.

A San Joaquin County, Calif., Superior Court judge agreed to transfer a contentious water transfer case out of the county, conceding to a demand by the state that the matter should be heard at a neutral site.

The Obama administration's hydraulic fracturing rule will not take effect until August at the earliest, thanks to a federal judge's decision to stay the new regulation until he has more information.

Oscar-winning composer James Horner, who wrote the musical scores for some of the world's most successful films, including "Avatar" and "Titanic," died when the small plane he was piloting crashed in a Los Angeles-area national forest, his agents confirmed yesterday.

A proposed copper-nickel mine in northeast Minnesota would not significantly affect water quality or endangered or threatened animal species, according to a new preliminary report.

One of the world's most invasive species has been spotted in Florida, putting the entire U.S. mainland at risk, according to a new report.

Four large underwater bombs detonated by the British Royal Navy caused a mass stranding on Scotland's northern coast that killed 19 pilot whales in 2011, according to a report from British government scientists released today.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation's annual list of America's 11 most endangered historic places includes the Grand Canyon and a sacred tribal site in Arizona.

Florida may cut back on its work to conserve the endangered Florida panther, a memo shows.

The Interior Department and its various agencies such as the National Park Service pump billions of dollars into the U.S. economy, according to a report released today that touts the economic impact of federal lands.

Oil companies are launching a new push to elect "pro-energy" candidates in the 2016 elections, setting up a growing contrast with Democratic candidates for president.

Former Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) will not challenge Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) in the 2016 election, according to Roll Call.

Environmentalists and a roster of New York politicians are urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to shut down aging coal-fired power plants instead of charging ratepayers to keep them alive.

A left-leaning think tank today urged the president and Congress to continue working to make the National Park System more reflective of the diversity of the American public.

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) today introduced a bill that would give alternative energy sources the same tax advantages enjoyed by the fossil fuel industry, his third attempt at a tax code fix that has failed to gain traction in the past two Congresses.

California Republican Tom McClintock, the lone congressman to vote against a bill to overhaul federal regulation of toxic chemicals, opposed the measure because it wouldn't allow U.S. EPA to consider cost, his office said today.

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