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U.S. EPA's air chief Janet McCabe is taking issue with The Wall Street Journal's comparing clean air rules with the World War II bombing of Dresden.

One of the world's largest gold producers is pressing the White House to remove its coal-fired power plant in northern Nevada from U.S. EPA's proposed rule for curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

A bipartisan poll shows voters in states with sage grouse habitat support sweeping federal plans to protect the bird across millions of acres of public land, even if doing so restricts some energy development.

A senior official from the National Weather Service refused to testify at a hearing today on allegations that he wrote his own contract for a post-retirement consulting job with the agency.

A meeting in 1997 with a coal miner protesting one of the largest strip mines ever proposed in West Virginia helped launch a young attorney's decadeslong fight against his state's coal industry. "We've cost the coal industry billions of dollars, and that's a very good thing," said Joe Lovett, the executive director of Appalachian Mountain Advocates.

Nearly one-fifth of California groundwater used for public drinking water systems contains excessive levels of potentially harmful chemicals, the U.S. Geological Survey has found.

Mercury controls at an Oregon coal-fired power plant significantly lowered airborne chemicals linked with neurological problems and cancer, according to a new study.

Scientists at Oregon State University have developed a new type of seaweed that tastes like bacon.

Little diversity on major U.S. oil company boards increases the risks of bad investment choices and "groupthink," according to a new report from the University of Oxford.

Farmers who planted cover crops in fields before sowing corn and soybeans reported significant yield increases, according to an Agriculture Department-funded survey.

Top officials at U.S. EPA are looking to tighten up cybersecurity in the wake of a sweeping data hack that targeted federal workers.

U.S. EPA employees have been attending dinner parties around the country to pick up checks from an overtime settlement.

California's largest utility yesterday announced a new management structure as its president prepares to exit.

DuPont Industrial Biosciences is aiming for an October opening of its large cellulosic ethanol plant in Iowa but says all negotiations over future plants in the United States have ceased.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today moved forward with a high-profile effort to protect the U.S. bulk power system from cyberattacks as activists dressed as clowns marched outside the agency's headquarters to protest the spread of gas infrastructure.

Actor Tom Selleck and a Ventura County, Calif., water district formally approved a settlement yesterday for $21,685.55 after the actor was accused of illegally taking water for his ranch.

Farmers turn to pricey technology to survive drought

Grass lawn sizes for new homes in California will be sharply limited following action yesterday by the state's Water Commission.

A California chief administrative law judge has recommended that Uber suspend operations in the state and pay a $7.3 million fine for failing to conform with state laws meant to protect passengers.

Utilities are challenging U.S. EPA's landmark rule that governs the disposal of coal combustion waste.

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