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Facing a large legislative agenda, California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) said yesterday it was unlikely that the state's environmental laws would undergo a major revamp this year. Transforming the California…

Nearly a week after 3,200 gallons of diesel fuel spilled near Alaska's Yukon River, contaminated snow cleanup has not yet begun. On Thursday night, a bulldozer pulling a tanker lost…

Federal regulators have struck deals with the city of Seattle and King County, Wash., to cut sewer overflows by investing a total of $1.46 billion in upgrades with an emphasis…

Toyota Motor Corp. has sold more than 5 million gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles since 1997 when it introduced the option, the automaker said today. The Prius series is responsible for about…

A ratepayer advocate at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power warned that the mayor's plan to move the city away from coal-fired energy ahead of the state deadline…

Lockheed Martin Corp. will build an ocean thermal energy plant in southern China, the company announced yesterday. The plant will use ocean thermal energy conversion, a technology that uses variations…

The world's progress in adopting low-carbon energy is moving too slowly to limit global warming, the International Energy Agency said today. Coal-fired generation rose by 45 percent between 2000 and…

While international climate negotiations have not yielded a treaty with binding emissions reduction targets, major emitters around the world are nonetheless taking steps to ratchet down their greenhouse gases, according…

A second environmental group followed in Greenpeace Canada's footsteps by backing out of a pact with the logging industry to protect the nation's boreal forest. Vancouver-based Canopy said the Canadian…

The voracious lionfish is invading the Atlantic, the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. Native to the coral reefs of the South Pacific and Indian oceans, lionfish were likely introduced…

As more of the ice along the Arctic coastline succumbs to summertime melt each year, bordering countries are mulling an agreement to regulate commercial fishing near the North Pole. Officials…

Alaska regulators have denied a bid to ban certain strip mining activities and boost public notice and comment procedures in an effort to protect salmon habitats. The petition's rejection last…

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell last night said she's looking forward to introducing more Americans to the national parks, warning that there is a "growing disconnect" between people and nature. Jewell…

Rising demands on the Colorado River, which sustains tens of millions of people and endangered fish and wildlife across seven states, prompted an environmental group to name the river as…

While Congress has taken steps to ensure billions of dollars is spent to restore the Gulf of Mexico, it has failed to implement other key proposals to prevent another offshore…

A Republican congressman whose district includes the town inundated with crude after an Exxon Mobil Corp. oil sands pipeline ruptured last month has asked the company to reroute the line…

Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) are scheduled tomorrow to reintroduce their marquee energy efficiency bill. The bill will replace a controversial loan guarantee program that helped sink…

By the end of this week, Sylvia Burwell may be the new director of the Office of Management and Budget, thanks to unusually speedy committee approval. The Senate Homeland Security…

U.S. Capitol Police have evacuated parts of the Hart and Russell Senate office buildings after two separate incidents were deemed "suspicious." In the Hart building, authorities closed off the atrium…

Gregory Jaczko, the former chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission who stepped down last year amid controversy, has inked a book deal with publisher Simon & Schuster. Jaczko's book, slated…

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