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Tesla Motors Inc. CEO Elon Musk and a group of 44 environmentalists are asking California regulators to let Volkswagen off the hook when it comes to repairing its polluting diesel cars and instead require the German automaker to produce electric vehicles.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's budget shrank only slightly from last year in the omnibus appropriations bill passed by Congress.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has moved to grant presumptive disability status to more veterans who served at the heavily polluted Camp Lejeune military base, drawing praise from North Carolina's senators.

Lawmakers have yet to determine whether an overhaul of the nation's chemical safety system will be considered by a conference committee or can be worked out in private, senators said today.

There will be no Christmas miracle for U.S. EPA nominees waiting for Senate action.

Citing "far too much federal land," Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) this morning blocked a package of public lands and water bills from advancing on the Senate floor.

CARLSBAD, Calif. -- At the dedication of the desalination plant here this week, lawmakers heralded the $1 billion facility as a turning point for drought-ravaged California.

Federal judges in Washington, D.C., ruled today that their court shouldn't be the one to hear challenges to a California air pollution rule, sharply rejecting the Obama administration's arguments.

U.S. EPA will not shrink from social media after the Government Accountability Office found its promotion of the agency's controversial water rule violated federal limits on lobbying and propaganda.

Congress passed a $1.15 trillion omnibus spending bill and $629 billion package of tax cuts in under three hours today, keeping the government funded through September and lifting the ban on crude oil exports.

Following a major turning point in the global discussion on climate change at the Conference of the Parties meeting earlier this month, what role will the private sector and state and local governments play in helping the United States meet its commitments? During today's OnPoint, Bob Perciasepe, president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions and the former deputy administrator of U.S. EPA, discusses the next steps for the deal, including Clean Power Plan implementation. He also talks about how a potential party shift in the White House could affect the deal's future.

Three hundred miles of the Doce River, which wends its way to the Atlantic Ocean, has turned an unnatural shade of bright orange, the consequence of a Brazilian dam collapse at an iron ore mine a month ago that left 13 people dead (Greenwire, Nov. 6).

A man-made mound of mud and construction waste gave way in southern China on Sunday, leaving 91 missing and burying 33 buildings.

A black bear attacked and injured a New Jersey Boy Scout troop leader yesterday near a reservoir in New Jersey just west of New York City.

Gov. Brian Sandoval (R) of Nevada signed four bills into law Saturday, finalizing a deal to bring a $1 billion electric car manufacturing plant to North Las Vegas.

Terry Backer, a former 12-term Connecticut state representative, fisherman and environmentalist who pushed to preserve Long Island Sound, died last week from complications of brain cancer.

Disguised as fishermen, members of a small group known as Coordinated Combat Against Environmental Crime hid outside of an oil service company on Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay in late August, taking pictures of a pipeline leaking contaminated liquid into the Brazilian waterway.

A complaint to U.S. EPA's Office of Civil Rights by Flint, Mich., residents in 1997 paved the way for what critics say is the office's high bar for civil rights determinations.

U.S. EPA is reorganizing its information technology office.

A U.S. EPA employee who sprayed a pesticide on an indoor plant roiled a Northern Virginia office building and sent at least 25 employees to seek medical screening, according to documents released today by a nonprofit watchdog.

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