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LE BOURGET, France -- U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres declared that a "world record" was set Monday when nearly 150 world leaders arrived in Paris to kick off landmark climate negotiations.

Top House and Senate Democrats are rejecting a House GOP omnibus spending proposal that includes a number of unspecified "poison pill" environmental riders.

U.S. EPA is poised to launch a 45-day public comment period on a plan that would require significant reductions in many power plants' allowable emissions of nitrogen oxides.

LE BOURGET, France -- French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius today dismissed a U.S. House vote to gut the cornerstone of President Obama's international climate change promises, saying opposition in Congress won't derail talks here toward a new agreement.

Grand Canyon National Park's water pipeline -- one of the Interior Department's most ambitious projects in the 1960s -- is on its last legs. The 16-mile chute, which brings water from a cave far below the North Rim, breaks down as many as 30 times a year, straining park finances and the patience of hikers and campers, who must sometimes haul in their own water. Breakdowns have even forced the evacuations of park visitors. And so the National Park Service is planning a major effort to replace it.

As state governments, industry and regulators dig in to potential Clean Power Plan compliance pathways, which industries could sustain the most significant credit impacts resulting from the rule's implementation? During today's OnPoint, Michael Ferguson, associate director of Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, discusses a new series of analyses on the impact the plan could have on energy markets, credit and the viability of power generators.

Christmas seems to have arrived early for Britain's newest national park after officials requested two gifts this year: "peace on Earth and Google Maps to reinstate the South Downs national park."

The Hawaii Supreme Court struck down a construction permit for a $1.4 billion observatory planned for the state's tallest mountain, Mauna Kea, designed to study planets and distant stars.

The California Supreme Court is expected to rule today on whether customers can sue companies in state court over claims that food products are falsely labeled as organic.

A carbon tax proposal appears to have collected enough signatures to qualify for the ballot in Washington state in 2016.

General Electric Co. has agreed to pay a hefty penalty for submitting false pollution control records at its hazardous waste incinerator in upstate New York that was emitting unsafe levels of air pollution.

A handful of coal-fired power plants owned by Texas-based Luminant remained among the nation's leading sources of airborne mercury last year, as overall electricity utility emissions of the toxic metal continued to decline, according to a new report.

Drilling rigs no longer dot the landscape around the Pennsylvania town of Williamsport, Pa., an indication that the seven-year Marcellus Shale boom might be over.

David Crane is stepping down as president and CEO of NRG Energy Inc., ending a tumultuous, 12-year stint as the head of the power company that recently ran into trouble with its stock price.

A Houston oil company reached a tentative agreement with federal prosecutors over four charges of safety and environmental violations by a subsidiary in the Gulf of Mexico.

Federal officials and a Louisiana energy company want more time to settle outside of court a dispute over natural gas drilling in an area east of Glacier National Park considered sacred by a nearby American Indian tribe.

The Wyoming Supreme Court yesterday held an energy company that sold off coalbed methane wells to another company responsible for cleaning up the now defunct wells -- a decision with broad implications for a state struggling to remediate the remnants of an industry boom.

A judge agreed yesterday to dismiss manslaughter charges against two supervisors who were working during BP PLC's 2010 oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 workers and caused an environmental disaster, a decision reached at the request of prosecutors.

A federal jury in West Virginia today has found ex-Massey Energy Co. CEO Don Blankenship guilty on one of three counts against him.

Two former U.S. EPA administrators from Republican administrations today sought to back the agency in the legal challenge to its landmark greenhouse gas standards for power plants.

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