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St. Louis-based Arch Coal Inc. filed for federal Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today, touting a restructuring proposal that the company hopes will shed more than $4.5 billion in debt without interrupting mining operations.

Seven pro-biofuel organizations are challenging U.S. EPA's latest mandates under the renewable fuel standard program, the first of what many observers expect will be a long legal battle over the legally mandated arrangement.

MALHEUR NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Ore. -- "I did exactly what the Lord asked me to do." So said Ammon Bundy in a video posted to YouTube on Jan. 1, a day before he led an armed break-in of this bird refuge that he and more than a dozen militants continue to occupy. It provides a glimpse into a devout Mormon man who has vowed to roll back the federal government's management of 640 million acres of mostly Western lands, clearing the way for more grazing, logging and mining.

How will the grid need to evolve to meet the pledges made by the United States in Paris? During today's OnPoint, Larry Kellerman, managing partner at Twenty First Century Utilities and the former president of Goldman Sachs' electric power business, discusses the market and regulatory forces that are driving change to the utility business model. He explains how utility customers will be impacted by the evolving industry dynamics.

Oregon regulators yesterday released a list of more than 250 pesticides thought to be safe for use on marijuana crops.

Ohio regulators could make it easier for companies to receive permits even if the projects would affect streams or wetlands.

A key climate researcher indicated yesterday that the effectiveness of clean air laws could have boosted the intensity of storms like Hurricane Katrina.

Water bills in the city of Flint, Mich., remain among the highest in the state despite local officials' acknowledgement that what's coming out of taps isn't safe to drink.

Falling gas prices have consumers buying more trucks and sport utility vehicles, but automakers unveiled new electric cars at the annual Detroit auto show this week as federal fuel efficiency deadlines loom.

Charging a cellphone costs drivers 0.03 mpg in fuel economy, according a retired General Motors Co. engineering executive.

U.S. EPA's inspector general plans to take a wide-ranging look at the agency's ambient air monitoring program, with a goal of determining whether data revisions and gaps comply with agency criteria, according to a memorandum posted online late yesterday.

Another crop-destroying saltwater spill has hit a North Dakota farmer's fields almost a year to the day after his land was fouled by the largest oil drilling byproduct spill in the state.

Scientists have found a way to improve the efficiency of traditional incandescent lightbulbs, which have been phased out of use in many nations because they waste large amounts of energy.

A coal company, environmentalists and Montana regulators brokered a deal that could keep the doors of a Powder River Basin mine open.

BP PLC today announced plans to cut 4,000 exploration and production jobs over the next two years as global business fades with falling oil prices.

An Oregon energy company has withdrawn its lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers before a judge could dismiss it, a move that could allow the company to refile the complaint.

A federal judge has chosen a former FBI director to help settle the more than 500 lawsuits filed against Volkswagen AG over its diesel emissions cheating scandal.

States opposing the Obama administration's contentious rule to define "waters of the U.S." are seeking to limit an environmental group's intervention.

The federal agency that gets called in to shoot problem wolves in Wyoming kept the public and other government officials in the dark about updating wolf-livestock conflict protocol, according to environmentalists.

Members of the small militia occupying a national wildlife refuge in southeastern Oregon tore down a fence in protest of federal land management as others pored over government documents in search of evidence that government officials discriminated against ranchers.

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