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Top Senate Democrats and environmentalists are drawing a line in the sand over the inclusion of policy riders in budget negotiations aimed at averting a government shutdown in December.

DEL MAR, Calif. -- Richard Hertzberg worked on getting crude from the Canadian oil sands decades before the current debate about the Keystone XL pipeline.

As the Obama administration approaches a deadline next month to finalize multiyear renewable fuel targets, climate change is furthering arguments both for and against adding more ethanol to U.S. transportation fuels.

With Canada's contentious elections now in the past, opponents of TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL oil pipeline from Alberta to Gulf Coast refineries say President Obama's decision on the project may be imminent.

The Obama administration is preparing plans for transporting used reactor fuel to temporary storage sites and creating a federal corporation to oversee the process, according to sources and documents obtained by Greenwire.

Does the Clean Power Plan help spur carbon capture and storage technology innovation and investments? During today's OnPoint, Charles McConnell, executive director of Rice University's Energy and Environment Initiative and a former assistant secretary of Energy at the Department of Energy, discusses the Obama administration's fossil energy strategy and the challenges ahead for technological innovation. He also explains why he believes the Obama administration has been "disingenuous" about its plans for an all-of-the-above energy strategy.

Endangered giant pandas are still under siege from logging despite new forestry regulations and conservation efforts, according to a Greenpeace report released today.

Japan has agreed to pay workers' compensation to a man who developed leukemia after working to clean up the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Nine people were killed and two injured in a chemical factory explosion in eastern China today.

American manufacturing facilities have prevented the release of billions of pounds of toxic chemicals through the use of "pollution prevention projects," according to a new study using U.S. EPA data.

The researchers at West Virginia University's Center for Alternative Fuels, Engines and Emissions and the group that commissioned them to study U.S. diesel car emissions had no idea they would uncover a massive scandal.

Clean water advocates are petitioning U.S. EPA to more stringently monitor water regulation in Wisconsin to ensure the state is in compliance with federal laws.

The Interior Department has ruled a Massachusetts college violated federal law governing the return of Native American human remains and sacred objects.

An Oak Ridge National Laboratory official will take the helm of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory next month.

The man who has been the force behind the Department of Energy's bid to make solar energy more affordable and accessible is now turning his sights on a new challenge: desalination.

North Dakota authorities said the amount of oil and saltwater that burst out of a Bakken Shale oil well remains unknown, but 99.9 percent of it was contained to the well pad.

In a mirror of this year's Volkswagen scandal, a British appliance company is accusing two European rivals of misleading consumers about the energy use of their vacuums.

Federal investigators are looking into the death of a worker on a Gulf of Mexico drillship.

More than three-quarters of Americans believe that climate change is happening, according to a poll released yesterday, but views on environmental and energy topics still appear to be closely tied to political affiliation.

The White House has launched a new Twitter account to get out its message on climate change.

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