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Owners of Volkswagen AG diesel cars in the United States may receive up to $1,000 in cash benefits from the company.

A Canadian Pacific freight train derailed in Wisconsin yesterday, spilling crude oil and forcing 35 homes to be evacuated.

Private salaries continue to outstrip their federal counterparts by about 35 percent on average, according to a federal advisory committee.

Chemical company DuPont Co. named Ed Breen as its new chairman and CEO.

Global coal consumption is headed toward a terminal decline, with 2015 potentially ushering the largest drop on record, environmental group Greenpeace said in a report released this morning.

California could get its first offshore wind farm under a plan put forth by a Seattle company recently.

Last year brought record high levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, according to the World Meteorological Organization, leaving the Earth more in danger of climate change.

A new industry analysis predicts that the Obama administration's effort to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants could cost close to $300 billion.

A Los Angeles pilot program will help fight drought by installing computerized systems in residential homes to capture stormwater and put it to use.

Fall storms are starting to register on measurements of California's four-year drought, experts say, though they caution that the drought is far from over.

California's record drought is shrinking the wetlands that provide respite for migrating sandhill cranes, creating crowded conditions that scientists worry could breed disease and starvation.

Some California water agencies are working to save excess water expected during a winter El Niño pattern as a hedge against future droughts.

A former BP PLC engineer Friday pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge related to deleting a text message conversation but maintained he is a scapegoat in the fallout from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

A panel of Washington, D.C.-based federal judges appears inclined to reject U.S. EPA's argument that a California air pollution case belongs in their court.

The Supreme Court won't hear a case involving a Nevada church that alleges the government illegally diverted a stream used for baptisms.

Hungry bears are coming down out of Sequoia National Park into the California town of Three Rivers in search of food, leading to conflict.

Weyerhaeuser Co. and Plum Creek Timber Company Inc. yesterday announced a merger to create the world's largest timber and forest products companies.

The Agriculture Department will spend about $8 million to expand an initiative to help farmers grapple with water scarcity issues across the Ogallala Aquifer, a 174,000-square-mile underground water reservoir that runs from South Dakota to Texas.

Vice President Joe Biden today is hosting a roundtable with fire chiefs to discuss how to protect homes and businesses against wildfires that have grown larger and more complex in the face of climate change.

The League of Conservation Voters Action Fund today backed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, marking its earliest endorsement of a candidate in the organization's history.

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