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The Nevada Public Utilities Commission ignored a Nevada public utility's plan for rooftop solar fees yesterday in favor of a commissioner's proposal that has left both sides of a long-running debate confused.

When Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005, it wiped out power at seven of Coast Electric Power Association's substations, grids that are vital to powering thousands of homes and businesses in Mississippi. Since the storm, the stations have been repaired but are just as vulnerable to extreme weather events as they were a decade prior.

U.S. EPA is proposing changes to its program requiring that large sources of greenhouse gases report emissions on a yearly basis.

Americans searched for drought and wildfires more than all but five other news topics in 2015 thanks to California Gov. Jerry Brown (D), Starbucks and actor Tom Selleck, according to online search engine records from Microsoft Bing.

Environmentalists yesterday sought to defend U.S. EPA in an industry challenge to recently finalized regulations to limit toxic metals in power plant wastewater.

Environmental groups are threatening to sue the Obama administration for approving an expansion of the Navajo coal mine and extending the life of the Four Corners Power Plant.

Although conservationists were "understandably frustrated" with the government's sluggishness on endangered species decisions, they didn't give the Fish and Wildlife Service proper advance notice before suing them, a federal appeals court ruled today.

New research out of New England indicates that fish thrown back after being caught don't die as often as previously thought, a finding that could alter federal fishing quotas.

Fifty-nine grizzly bears have died in the Yellowstone region this year, breaking a 30-year record and prompting the Sierra Club to warn against removing the bear's protections under the Endangered Species Act.

Last year, scientists made a discovery while on a research cruise in Cuba's Guanahacabibes National Park: Condoms can't plug holes in coral.

House Democrats from Northern California who are being left out of negotiations on a bill dealing with the state's drought are pressing Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) publicly for more details.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) pledged to revisit the extension of a key tax credit in the omnibus spending deal that also lifted the ban on crude oil exports, saying it was "inadvertently" applied only to solar, when other renewables should have received the same treatment.

Top officials at U.S. EPA waiting for Senate confirmation will not have to be nominated again in the foreseeable future.

The League of Conservation Voters will begin the 2016 election year without its political director, after Daniel Weiss stepped down from his post as senior vice president of campaigns.

President Obama says it's "perfectly legitimate" for some Americans to see his administration's actions as being part of a war on coal.

The Interior Department will leave lasting marks on the nation's land, wildlife and energy resources in 2016.

The legal battle over the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan is so contentious that lawyers are fighting about the ground rules for arguing the case in court.

Wyoming is challenging the Obama administration's signature climate change rule on the grounds that it'll hamper efforts to protect the greater sage grouse.

Thanks to a 1908 Supreme Court ruling, Native American tribes almost always have the most senior claim to water in the West, but while the high court was clear that tribes have rights to water, it didn't say how much. And that's a big problem. In many cases, tribes claim a share large enough to crowd out neighboring cities' and farmers' water supplies and stanch future development.

California may still be enduring a record drought, but this winter has seen more snowfall than average in the Golden State.

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