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Government-owned entities are more likely to violate certain air and water regulations and less likely to receive sanctions than their private counterparts, according to a new study.

Entergy Corp. announced plans today to shutter Massachusetts' only nuclear power plant in 2019, appeasing green groups and safety advocates while raising questions about whether the state can meet its goals for slashing emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.

In a move that stands to seriously complicate an already tangled legal battle over the Obama administration's controversial water rule, a judicial panel this morning ruled against consolidating the nine separate district court cases challenging the regulation.

When Judge Brett Kavanaugh was picked for a federal court job by President George W. Bush, a Senate Democrat said the nomination was "not just a drop of salt in the partisan wounds, it is the whole shaker." Now viewed as a potential Supreme Court contender, Kavanaugh is again causing the left to fret with some recent opinions assailing U.S. EPA clean air rules.

Following last week's appeals court decision to stay the Obama administration's Waters of the U.S. rule nationwide, what does the legal landscape look like for the rule as it faces multiple court challenges? During today's OnPoint, Larry Liebesman, a senior adviser at Dawson & Associates and a former senior trial attorney in the Department of Justice's Environment Division, discusses the long-term prospects for the water rule.

Australian officials took the time to respond directly to two celebrities who had criticized its plan to cull millions of feral cats to protect threatened species.

A second nuclear reactor was restarted today in Japan since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi crisis, despite fierce public opposition.

China banned bringing African ivory hunting trophies into the country for a year starting today, according to a State Forestry Administration statement.

The Australian government has signed off on a proposal to build one of the world's biggest coal mines, a decision environmentalists condemned immediately.

A black bear showed up an hour early for high school in Montana yesterday but left before the first bell.

Two Denver marijuana growers recalled their products yesterday because of concerns over residue from pesticides that are not approved for use on cannabis.

CSX Corp. is planning to double the length of its coal trains to boost efficiency as demand declines.

Tesla Motors Inc. said two staffers from the Reno Gazette-Journal newspaper snuck through a fence surrounding the electric car maker's massive battery factory in Nevada last week, leading to an arrest.

The Ohio Department of Transportation is poised to formally take over most environmental review and consultation duties for highway projects under a proposed agreement with the Federal Highway Administration.

More than 100 outdoor businesses and winter sports athletes today urged U.S. EPA to require more stringent pollution controls on two coal-fired power plants in Utah.

University of Tennessee researchers cast doubt today on the environmental and economic track record of the renewable fuel standard, the federal policy that requires refiners to use increasing amounts of ethanol and advanced biofuels.

The likelihood of a major El Niño event bringing significantly elevated rainfall to drought-stricken California continues to grow, but federal forecasters today tempered expectations that it will be the strongest event on record.

DuPont has settled with the family of one of the four workers killed in a gas leak at a Texas chemical plant last year.

The Rhode Island Department of Transportation has reached a settlement with the Department of Justice for nearly a decade's worth of Clean Water Act violations related to stormwater pollution fouling already overburdened New England waterways.

More than 26 years after the Exxon Valdez tanker crashed in Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound, the state of Alaska and U.S. Department of Justice have declared an official end to the legal battle over the accident.

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