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An Airbus craft became the second electric plane to fly across the English Channel today, just hours after an independent French pilot beat the aviation company to it.

Airports on two of Indonesia's most famous resort islands remained closed today as volcanic ash disrupts air travel in one of the world's most crowded flight paths during peak vacation season.

In a sign of the times, a major energy company is considering dropping the word "oil" from its name.

California's only nuclear power plant is facing a stiff challenge from a local environmental group as it seeks to renew its license for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan.

Federal regulators tasked with ensuring pipeline safety floated new rules today that would require operators to sound the alarm within an hour of confirming an oil spill.

The operator of Michigan's Palisades Nuclear Generating Station has been ordered to disclose documentation of the safety risks of the plant's aging infrastructure.

California could have a better chance of emerging from drought this winter as an El Niño weather pattern continues to strengthen in the Pacific Ocean, a federal report found.

A California water district has settled a dispute with actor Tom Selleck over allegations of water theft.

A Missouri environmental group has settled lawsuits against a proposed coal ash landfill.

BP PLC's settlement with the U.S. government for $18.7 billion over its role in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is a chance for the oil company to close a chapter, but it's not clear where it will go from here.

Homebuilders urged a federal appeals court today to reconsider its rejection of their challenge to a landmark settlement requiring the Fish and Wildlife Service to decide whether to list 251 animals and plants under the Endangered Species Act.

Montana's state veterinarian yesterday said anthrax may have played a role in the deaths of more than a dozen bison on a Montana American Indian reservation since July 4, but he warned that sounding the alarm may be premature.

A Canadian copper-gold mine can resume scaled-back operations after it was shut down last year following a spill, the mine's owner said yesterday.

The National Park Service and Marin County struck a deal that will cap the number of daily visitors to Muir Woods National Monument in hopes of addressing long-standing overcrowding problems.

Blackfeet tribal leaders walked away from formal negotiations with the U.S. government and a Louisiana company looking to drill for natural gas on land the tribe considers sacred.

State and federal officials yesterday released a new version of their plan to remodel California's main water hub designed to get it past stringent environmental permitting processes.

The Commerce Department's inspector general's office gets less bang for its buck than other IGs and failed to conduct audits in two high-risk areas, according to a report released today by the Government Accountability Office.

The Agriculture Department's Natural Resources Conservation Program is expected to make major changes to its Conservation Stewardship Program starting next year, according to the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition.

The Department of Energy has suspended Recovery Act funding for a California project to trap carbon emissions from a coal-fired power plant, an agency spokeswoman said.

Katherine Archuleta, the embattled director of the Office of Personnel Management, resigned today after a massive data breach that compromised private information for millions of federal employees.

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