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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Norman Bay has made his former enforcement adviser the agency's new general counsel.

The security system for one of the country's most sensitive nuclear sites has not met government standards.

A top official seen as the local face of Enbridge Inc.'s controversial Northern Gateway pipeline has died of leukemia, the company said.

Oil drilling companies have cut nearly 4,000 jobs in their latest round of layoffs, and more are expected in the coming months as they figure out how much drilling to do next year.

A lawsuit from a Texas family injured in an explosion they say came from nearby Barnett Shale drilling could put pressure on Texas regulators to restrict the industry there.

The Cheniere Energy Inc. executive responsible for the company's $20 billion Sabine Pass liquefied natural gas terminal in Louisiana was prompted to get into the business, in part, as a result of the O.J. Simpson murder trial.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is ramping up oversight of the troubled Pilgrim nuclear power station in Massachusetts after a series of safety issues.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has decided not to require plant operators to create guidelines for responding to extreme emergencies that could lead to a core meltdown, disregarding a key recommendation made by a task force assembled in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

Climate change is causing an ocean bacteria species to evolve far too rapidly to survive in the long term, according to a study published yesterday.

This year's El Niño could end up being one of the strongest on record, according to experts from the World Meteorological Organization.

The World Bank is preparing a sweeping study on the link between climate change and poverty that will be unveiled ahead of key U.N. negotiations, Special Envoy for Climate Change Rachel Kyte said today.

Michigan's Republican governor yesterday announced the state will craft its own plan to comply with U.S. EPA's new requirements to curb power plant emissions, even though the state's attorney general has joined a group petitioning for an emergency stay of the rule.

A pair of conservation groups yesterday promised to fight the Fish and Wildlife Service over its decision earlier this year to not protect an elusive, forest-dwelling carnivore under the Endangered Species Act.

Conservationist groups yesterday threatened to take the Fish and Wildlife Service to court if it doesn't stop allowing the killing of rare red wolves and review the status of the protected carnivores under the Endangered Species Act.

The world's largest flowering plant indisputably smells awful, but it's also a crowd favorite at botanic gardens in the United States.

Palm oil production helped create new deforestation hot spots in Africa as 18 million hectares (44.5 million acres) of forest -- an area twice the size of Portugal -- was destroyed last year, according to World Resources Institute researchers.

A local county board yesterday unanimously backed a proposal from Utah Republican Reps. Jason Chaffetz and Rob Bishop to designate a quarry packed with dinosaur fossils as a national monument.

An off-highway vehicle (OHV) group last week asked the Obama administration to push back its legally binding Sept. 30 deadline to decide whether to protect the greater sage grouse, warning it is prepared to join a "flurry of litigation" against the government's actions.

Researchers from universities and environmental groups are calling for global standards on seismic surveys, asserting in a new paper that the United States has underestimated their effect on marine life.

A growing list of lawmakers are asking for action against the practice of purchasing structured settlements awarded to victims of lead exposure after a recent report of abuses.

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