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After an alarming Islamic State group video warned Washington, D.C., could face a strike similar to the Friday attack on Paris, the presence of local law enforcement remains heightened across the city.

California regulators are considering new standards that would establish light-emitting diodes as the go-to technology in the state and scrap some other lightbulbs that waste more energy.

The White House today announced new partners in a federal initiative to broaden Americans' access to solar power -- particularly in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods -- with more than $500 million in pledged funds.

Summer ice melting in the Arctic is creating more navigable routes through the Bering Strait, prompting U.S. Coast Guard officials to raise concerns over potential vessel crashes and oil leaks.

U.S. EPA and the governments of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands will sign an agreement later this week to address climate change impacts in the Caribbean.

A new study says Arizona could meet carbon-cutting goals in U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan simply by developing the state's abundant and already available solar and wind power resources over the next 15 years.

A hearing for a Fargo, N.D.- and Moorhead, Minn.-based flood diversion project, which was first brought forth in August 2013, was held yesterday in Minneapolis, and the matter is now in the hands of a federal judge.

A Georgia newspaper publisher said he won't stop reporters from "aggressively covering" a controversial oil pipeline proposal, despite acknowledging a conflict of interest in his objections to the proposed route, which crosses his personal property.

A federal judge Friday ruled that only the original plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging new federal sage grouse protections could present arguments, denying Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt's petition to join the case.

Environmental groups today sued a subsidiary of Arch Coal Inc., accusing the mining company of what they called widespread pollution in southern West Virginia.

Forests in the West are thicker than they used to be, creating ideal conditions for the spread of wildfires.

Environmental groups have sued the Canadian government over its approval of an American company's plan to produce genetically modified salmon eggs there.

The ulcers, blisters and other skin maladies found on certain American snake species experiencing population declines are caused by a specific fungus, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey study.

A conservative think tank sued the Bureau of Land Management this week, asking a federal judge to settle a long-running dispute about the boundary of the Red River in Texas.

Tesla Motors Inc. has again bolstered its K Street team, adding another outside lobby firm to its payroll.

Biodiesel makers are pushing members of Congress this week to reinstate an expired tax credit to produce the renewable fuel, a financial support whose absence has hurt the domestic industry, according to the National Biodiesel Board.

A lobbyist-led group of 50 technology-related company executives today called on lawmakers to revive a popular land buying and recreation program that it said is important to the industry.

U.S. EPA made its latest argument before a federal appeals court yesterday to keep Murray Energy Corp. attorneys from deposing Administrator Gina McCarthy in ongoing litigation.

Republican Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado said today that Congress should consider a deal on lifting the ban on crude oil exports in exchange for measures that boost renewable energy production.

The Senate today began debate on a bid to use the Congressional Review Act to kill the Obama administration's carbon rules for power plants.

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