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Royal Dutch Shell PLC is the latest company to announce plans to leave the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) over that group's stance on climate change.

A U.S. EPA team investigating mining contamination in southwest Colorado on Wednesday morning accidentally triggered a massive release of rust-colored wastewater into Cement Creek, threatening drinking water, fish populations and paddling on the Animas River that flows south into Durango.

U.S. EPA chief Gina McCarthy doesn't want to duke it out with Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe about her agency's new climate rule, but she does think he's wrong.

Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the author of a seminal decision on when courts must defer to agencies, said the high court's decision this year to invalidate U.S. EPA's air standards for mercury and other toxics was "truly mind-boggling."

Energy efficiency is being trumpeted as the "low-hanging fruit" of U.S. energy policy and the "great test bed of bipartisanship" in Congress. But it's never been called exciting.

With a shift in strategy on natural gas in its final Clean Power Plan, is the Obama administration retracting on its support for the fuel? During today's OnPoint, David Doniger, director of the climate and clean air program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, discusses changes made in the final rule and the impact they could have on the rule's legal defensibility. He also previews NRDC's plans for defending the rule in the courts and in Congress.

Dozens of reporters have been working to update E&E's Power Plan Hub since U.S. EPA released the final rule Monday.

Scottish ministers plan to formally ban genetically modified crops from being grown in Scotland.

Japan is preparing to activate a nuclear reactor for the first time in two years tomorrow while reassuring the public that the industry is now safe four years after the Fukushima Daiichi disaster.

A decade after Hurricane Katrina devastated Louisiana, the state is undertaking an ambitious flood protection program that could be a model for other low-lying areas in a warming world.

Wolf hunting resumes today on state lands near Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve despite calls from conservationist groups to reinstate the controversial "wolf buffer" near the national park.

Federal authorities are looking into how two freight trains collided Friday in central Georgia.

U.S. EPA will conduct additional air quality tests in a Los Angeles neighborhood after detecting contaminants near two Superfund sites.

The government's landlord has been losing tens of millions of dollars each year on badly performing buildings, federal watchdogs have found.

Popular retailer Ikea will stop selling halogen and compact fluorescent bulbs, shifting exclusively to light-emitting diodes, or LEDs.

A Florida man pleaded guilty Friday to charges of trading illegally caught wild snakes, including a live rattler mailed to him in a coffee can.

The Georgia Aquarium will go to court this week with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration over the denial of a request to bring 18 beluga whales from Russia to display in aquariums in the United States.

Federal judges on Friday declined an industry request to reconsider their interpretation of a Supreme Court ruling that trimmed U.S. EPA's greenhouse gas regulations.