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Royal Dutch Shell PLC called off a major Canadian oil sands project yesterday as low crude prices undermined the Alberta facility's profitability.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced yesterday that fewer U.S. nuclear reactors require in-depth seismic reviews than previously thought, allowing the agency to zero in on facilities facing the biggest risks.

Workers are removing a temporary dam from the Los Angeles Aqueduct that was constructed as a drought mitigation measure.

Senior water rights holders in California can start pumping water again after state regulators yesterday lifted the restrictions instituted this summer to cope with California's record drought.

The tree destined to be decorated on the U.S. Capitol grounds this holiday season is en route to Washington, D.C., from southern Alaska.

A new name for a common Atlantic bottom-dwelling fish is spurring fisheries groups and Cape Cod chefs to try and broaden American palates.

Colorado voters are more likely to vote for candidates who support increased domestic oil and gas production when they head to the ballot box next year, according to a new poll released yesterday by an affiliate of the American Petroleum Institute.

The American Petroleum Institute today launched a new advertising campaign targeting the renewable fuel standard as the Obama administration works to finalize new standards for refiners.

Donald Trump, real estate tycoon and a front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, said yesterday the United States needs to get a "better deal" from TransCanada Corp. if it is going to allow the Keystone XL pipeline to cross American soil.

Coal advocates are pressing lawmakers and political candidates to toe the line against Obama administration rules to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R) should resign instead of collecting a paycheck for a job he says he doesn't like, one of the state's largest newspapers said in an editorial published today.

A "paternalistic" Obama administration is crippling Indian Country, House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed today.

Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) wants the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to create a program the protects the agency's employees from sexual harassment and assault.

More than 40 percent of salmon sold in restaurants and grocery stores is mislabeled, with many farmed products falsely sold as wild-caught, according to a new report from Oceana.

An Agriculture Department scientist in USDA's research unit has been suspended for what he believes is retaliation for publishing a paper on a controversial pesticide's effects on monarch butterflies.

Five states launched a lawsuit yesterday against U.S. EPA's new national ambient air quality standard for ozone.

In March, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had a prescription for states unhappy with U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan: "Just say no." But since the rule was finalized on Aug. 3, the Kentucky Republican's campaign has withered. McConnell no longer references it, preferring to cite the legal challenges stacking up in the courts and to Congressional Review Act resolutions in the House and Senate.

With a majority of states moving to comply with U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan, is the "just say no" strategy a thing of the past? On today's The Cutting Edge, Greenwire reporter Jean Chemnick explains how states that were previously committed to "saying no" are now shifting to a strategy of considering compliance options. Chemnick also discusses how the remaining noncompliance states may be swayed to craft state implementation plans.

The gruesome death of an Australian man who was pulled by a leaping crocodile from his boat into the water last year has caused a coroner to ask authorities to warn boaters of the danger from crocodiles in northern Australia.

Bolivia plans to build a $300 million nuclear complex with a research reactor, using Russian technology and assistance from neighboring Argentina.

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