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Connections in the White House and on Capitol Hill helped several longtime federal judges land their jobs.

The man who led the Department of Energy's marquee program aimed at spurring private-sector investment in green technologies knows that backstop financing isn't enough to spur enough investment to make a difference in the battle against climate change.

When airmen at Los Angeles Air Force Base are done using one of the installation's 42 sedans, pickup trucks or cargo vans, they now have to remember to plug them in.

If the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments are today widely viewed as a common-sense success, the law's passage at the time was anything but assured, former Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) said this morning.

A Senate panel Thursday will vote to advance part of a sweeping sportsmen's package that would promote hunting, fishing and shooting access on federal lands and reauthorize a popular land sales and conservation program, among other provisions. The Energy and Natural Resources Committee will also vote on four nominees for the Interior and Energy departments.

China will finance and build two nuclear power plants in Argentina in a $15 billion deal aiming to export its nuclear technology.

India's Supreme Court ordered an end to wood-burning cremation next door to the Taj Mahal to protect the famed marble domes and minarets from air pollution.

It took an electric saw and a tranquilizer for Maryland wildlife officials to get a black bear's head out of a milk can.

New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection approved a plan yesterday to expand the state's bear hunt next year.

Retailer Lumber Liquidators Inc. will stop selling vinyl flooring made with reprocessed plastic and will limit its lead content, the company and advocacy groups said today.

The Department of Transportation is joining the Department of Energy's effort to bring more electric vehicle charging stations to workplaces across the country.

The world's leading passenger airlines vary dramatically in fuel economy on trans-Atlantic flights, with a gap of more than 50 percent separating the best- and worst-performing carriers, a new study has concluded.

Chemical dispersants used by oil company BP PLC during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 removed oil from the water's surface but did not fully break down the substance, a study found.

There are 6 quintillion -- that's 6,000,000,000,000,000,000 -- gallons of groundwater under the Earth's surface, according to a new study, but the amount available for human use could run out.

The Interior Department's Bureau of Reclamation is backing its recently released report into U.S. EPA's abandoned mine spill in Colorado this summer.

With cotton prices nearing a six-year low, farmers across the country are planting fewer acres of the crop once nicknamed "King Cotton."

Taco Bell announced yesterday that it plans to use only cage-free eggs, a pledge the company said will be carried out by the end of 2016.

Coal companies have scrapped applications for federal leases containing nearly 2 billion tons of coal reserves this year as the industry's fortunes decline.

A delayed small business review panel began meeting earlier this month to assess proposals to update U.S. EPA's risk management program, the agency confirmed yesterday.

Cass Sunstein -- the Obama White House's former regulatory czar -- is now a film critic.

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