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The leaders of nearly two dozen advanced and cellulosic biofuel companies are protesting U.S. EPA's proposal to stray from the statutory targets of the renewable fuel standard, which they say will stymie investment in the very advanced fuels the policy was intended to boost.

U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said her agency takes full responsibility for last month's abandoned mine spill and defended response efforts amid tough questioning from senators this morning.

Solar power developers and environmental groups today announced a new partnership to study the impacts of commercial-scale solar plants on birds.

Three industry groups and Montana today pressed federal appeals judges to reverse U.S. EPA's determinations that three geographic areas failed to meet its air standard for sulfur dioxide, a harmful gas.

U.S. EPA sent its Clean Power Plan to the Federal Register on Sept. 4 for an expected publication next month, Administrator Gina McCarthy told a Senate panel today.

A small Wisconsin town persuaded its county's health board to declare that the sounds of an eight-turbine wind farm pose a "human health hazard." Wind energy opponents from across the country seized on the decision as proof of "wind turbine syndrome," but the industry is strongly pushing back, fearing a nationwide precedent.

Illegal timber trading between Myanmar and China is once again skyrocketing as loggers strip Myanmar's forests, according to a report released today.

Chile is continuing to experience aftershocks today after a strong, magnitude-8.3 earthquake killed at least two people and prompted big waves in coastal towns and tsunami warnings across the Pacific.

FINA, the international swimming federation, is pushing for testing of the Rio de Janeiro waters that will be used in next year's Olympics for viruses.

A report detailing environmental contamination at a U.S. Marine Corps supply base in Japan is being kept under wraps by the U.S. military as it prepares to return the area to civilian use.

Exposure to pesticides is associated with a greater risk of developing diabetes, according to new research.

A Canadian company has reached a tentative deal to provide lithium from a Nevada mine to Tesla Motors Inc. for the company's electric car battery factory.

Researchers at the University of Michigan plan to study how the Detroit River contributes to algae growth in Lake Erie.

A spokesman for a geothermal complex damaged in a raging Northern California wildfire was quick yesterday to downplay the extent of the damage to the plant.

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection is investigating whether a wildfire that has killed two people in Northern California was sparked by a live tree in contact with a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. power line, spokesman Daniel Berlant said.

Weatherizing low-income households, a task that has cost hundreds of millions of dollars, is worth every penny, the Energy Department concluded from the findings of two reports released today.

The Interior Department announced today that it completed its environmental review of plans to lease up to 308,000 acres of federal waters off North Carolina for commercial wind farm development.

When Emily Reichert first met her future colleagues at Greentown Labs, they were working in a basement in south Boston.

The Department of Agriculture presented two designs for tall wooden buildings with a combined $3 million today, with an eye toward sparking interest in large-scale timber construction.

The Energy Department is investing $7 million in five projects aimed at producing fresh water from salty water trapped underground using carbon dioxide emissions.

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