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Congressional Republicans called on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to explore whether changes are needed to improve a law crafted in the Carter administration to boost renewables and efficiency.

U.S. EPA's inspector general has found that more than a half-dozen agency workers were placed on administrative leave -- essentially paid to sit at home and not come into work -- for drug use, hostile office behavior or violating their probation.

The world's first commercial-scale carbon capture and sequestration project in the Canadian oil sands has opened, but it could be one of the last such initiatives -- at least for the next decade.

Peabody Energy Corp. has agreed to disclose in public filings financial risks due to future climate change laws and regulations.

The leader of the Department of Energy effort to drive down the cost of solar power enjoys a big challenge. When Lidija Sekaric was recruited for the SunShot initiative in 2010, she turned up her nose at the program's goal -- lowering the installed cost of solar from $2 a watt to 50 cents by 2020. "We were not ambitious enough for her," then-Director Minh Le recalled. "I pitch it to her that we are going to reduce costs by 75 percent, and her immediate reaction -- with a straight face -- was, 'Why not 25 cents per watt?'"

An 800-pound alligator found in a Houston-area shopping center will be taken to a reserve to safely live.

A New York assemblyman who worked to craft a new state law to protect nail salon workers from labor abuses and toxic chemicals now opposes the measure.

Deputies were "completely unjustified," according to the family of an Idaho rancher shot and killed after an altercation stemming from a car striking the rancher's bull on a dark rural highway.

An employee of California's oil and gas regulatory agency filed a complaint after being directed to map and measure the potential of Gov. Jerry Brown's (D) private land, according to her attorney.

Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. is mulling a takeover of U.S. railroad Norfolk Southern Corp., which could further consolidate the rail industry.

Modernizing the Northeast Corridor rail line would lead to lower energy usage and greenhouse gas production and more economic activity and mobility, a draft environmental report found.

NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore will pay more than $50,000 to U.S. EPA after it was accused of violating air and hazardous waste laws at the coastal launch site.

The Department of Energy is falling short in protecting its data systems from cybersecurity threats, despite making progress in the last year, according to reports released this month by the DOE inspector general.

Mining on the moon or an asteroid would be cheaper than building Earth's largest natural gas terminals, according to new research.

The Department of Energy is launching a program with the National League of Cities, the National Association of State Energy Officials and other partners to help local jurisdictions boost energy efficiency in buildings and slash costs.

The rising Pacific Ocean is inundating the Quinault Indian Nation, and the salmon that still sustain many tribal members are fading, putting the reservation on Washington's Olympic Peninsula at the vanguard of climate change.

Greenhouse gas emissions are on the decline among the world's 20 major economies for the first time, a study found yesterday.

A Southern California water agency is moving closer to purchasing two islands in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in a bid to stem cuts in water deliveries from the area.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) is requesting greater public oversight of plans by Nestlé to bottle water from the Columbia River in northern Oregon.

A federal appeals court is denying a request by environmental groups that it force U.S. EPA to respond to their petition to scrap West Virginia's Clean Water Act permitting authority.

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