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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's plan for building up rural America includes support for ethanol and investments in conservation, she said yesterday.

A federal judge yesterday denied a bid by a coal giant to block the Obama administration's controversial rule for establishing which waters qualify for federal protection from going into effect this week.

DENVER -- Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet (D) yesterday criticized U.S. EPA's proposal to tighten the ozone standard, asserting that he supports protections for public health but that the current plan "doesn't make sense on the ground."

The White House yesterday escalated an ongoing feud with billionaire conservative brothers Charles and David Koch over energy subsidies and the oil and gas industry's role in influencing politicians.

PATUXENT RESEARCH REFUGE, Md. -- On Chandler Robbins' first day of work here as a federal scientist, World War II was raging, FDR was in the White House, and Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!" was opening on Broadway. The year was 1943. Seventy-two years later, Robbins -- whose ornithology career is the stuff of legend -- is still at work as a federal scientist and still at Patuxent.

China's Environment Ministry has installed a 24-hour pollutant monitoring system at the site of two chemical explosions in the port city of Tianjin and will release the data to the public.

A coyote dragging a leash through southern Maryland was captured and euthanized Wednesday, according to the Calvert County Sheriff's Office.

Chris Baker, president and CEO of the Arizona-based American Conservation Experience, is recovering from moderate injuries after a bison gored him on Santa Catalina Island off the Southern California coast.

Health advisories are plastered along a well-known stretch of Hawaiian shoreline for the second time this week following a roughly million-gallon sewage spill.

Members of a U.S. EPA cleanup crew working at the Gold King mine near Silverton, Colo., were trapped and had no way to warn downstream communities after they accidentally released toxic wastewater from the mine, documents show.

An official at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been put on administrative leave while police investigate the violent death of his son-in-law.

The Energy Department is searching for a new chief of staff for its Office of International Affairs, a post that longtime Obama campaigner and staffer Damian Bednarz is about to leave.

Stock of shallow-water rig contractor Hercules Offshore Inc. is no longer being traded on the Nasdaq exchange, according to company filings.

Pipeline operators use a range of devices known as "pigs" to keep the lines operating smoothly and safely.

Two workers were injured when a natural gas pipeline caught fire after a rupture in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, the Coast Guard said.

Four biologists whose research has led to media reports this summer that California's drought may be killing giant sequoias say those conclusions are premature.

A federal judge ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to pay the $3 billion cost to restore wetlands damaged by the agency's botched construction and maintenance of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet.

A federal judge yesterday tossed out a lawsuit by conservation groups and Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen aiming to force the Interior Department to scrutinize its coal leasing program.

A federal judge yesterday sentenced four Florida residents to prison time ranging from a year to more than five years for their participation in a biodiesel fraud scheme.

New Yorkers are grappling with the state's ban on the sale of shark fins, with some turning to substitutes while others go underground.

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