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Transportation-related construction and maintenance will carry a $273 billion economic value this year, outpacing that of car manufacturing, wireless communications and other key economic sectors, an industry trade group concludes in a new overview.

The new leader of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board says she wants her tenure to be smoother than the one of the man she replaced.

Army commanders deployed abroad now have updated guidance on how environmental concerns should factor into decisions.

Security problems persist at the Department of Energy's Y-12 National Security Complex, a sensitive nuclear site, including the discovery of uranium samples on a laundry truck.

Charif Souki, chief executive of Cheniere Energy Inc., says his company will drastically change the way liquefied natural gas is traded when it opens its Louisiana export terminal in December.

The controversial Denali Commission has come a long way.

Corporate actions that worsen climate change are being driven by fossil fuel executive pay, a Washington, D.C., think tank said Wednesday.

The Obama administration will allow mining on a 20-acre tract in Colorado after a new analysis showed the operation wouldn't have significant environmental impacts.

Drought is expected to cost the global economy more than $8 billion in the coming months as the El Niño weather pattern intensifies, according to reinsurance firm Aon Benfield's latest monthly catastrophe report.

Three people were charged with wire and securities fraud yesterday for their roles in a $54 million Ponzi scheme that promised clean energy technology to turn trash into fuel, among other things, and never materialized.

Local residents in northwestern Montana are asking a federal judge to halt a deal giving the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes control over a hydroelectric dam.

Canada's Supreme Court today ruled that a group of Ecuadoreans' bid to recover a $9.5 billion judgment for environmental damage from Chevron Corp. may move forward.

As the world fell victim to "pandamonium" over the twin panda cubs born last week at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, some scientists criticized the vast resources zoos spend on "flagship species," as opposed to important -- but less popular -- species.

The ongoing wildfires in the Pacific Northwest have destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of habitat for wildlife while costing the U.S. Forest Service a record $243 million this year.

Spray-painted signatures and the letters "OSU" written on ancient rock art have authorities in Utah investigating the graffiti's connection to Ohio State University.

Scientists have found a mathematical function that predicts many of the patterns in life on Earth, from the ratio of predators to prey to the effect of an organism's size on its life span and reproductive rate.

Former Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.) has become a K Street defender for wild horses.

Higher fuel taxes, new fees on motorists, and revenue from California's cap-and-trade program for carbon emissions would be used to fund $3.6 billion in road repairs annually under a proposal Gov. Jerry Brown (D) unveiled yesterday.

In a letter released this week, investors representing over $320 billion in assets called on companies associated with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to pressure the prominent business lobbying group to stop fighting the Obama administration's plan to curb power plant emissions.

The White House has scheduled a series of meetings with industry and public interest groups on U.S. EPA's proposed air standard for ozone.

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