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A California utility has abandoned a plan to trap and burn natural gas leaking from an underground storage site in Los Angeles but said it might be able to stop the leak ahead of schedule.

The Department of Energy is funding for the first time a portfolio of projects aimed exclusively at connecting solar power to energy storage systems.

Dying of cancer and thinking about climate change, NASA's acting Earth Sciences Division Director Piers Sellers said he doubts nations will be able to limit global temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, as was recently decided at global climate negotiations in Paris.

Heat soaked up by the world's oceans has significantly increased in the past two decades, a signal that climate change continues to worsen despite a slowdown of Earth surface temperature rises, a U.S. study showed yesterday.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton signed a pledge yesterday from billionaire Tom Steyer's political action committee to achieve 50 percent clean energy in the United States by 2030.

Flint, Mich.'s small-business owners say their balance sheets are hurting as residents shun their establishments amid concerns about being exposed to lead.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) said in an interview yesterday he had made mistakes in his management of the Flint water crisis, but state employees also played a role.

Two class-action lawsuits will be filed today in Michigan county courts against Republican Gov. Rick Snyder as well as state and local officials for their actions related to the city of Flint's drinking water becoming contaminated with lead.

A group of former government officials -- including former high-ranking U.S. EPA staffers -- has launched a new environmental law firm.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is leaving his namesake firm, Bracewell & Giuliani LLP, to join another global law practice, Greenberg Traurig LLP.

Alcohol consumption while rafting on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon has led to deaths and aided incidents of sexual harassment by male employees of the National Park Service, federal investigators said this week.

The worldwide growth in commercial wind farms and the spread of white-nose syndrome in North America are the main causes of "mass mortality" in bats since 2000, according to a study that suggests these new threats spell trouble for the survival of some bat species.

Experts have significantly underestimated the amount of fish caught over the last six decades, according to a new study that suggests the world's fisheries should be more closely monitored.

Federal judges appeared skeptical today of environmentalists' challenge to a government decision removing a "roadless" designation from Colorado ski areas.

Two Oregon brothers have launched a fundraising campaign to counter the ongoing occupation of a national wildlife refuge by Ammon Bundy and an armed group of militiamen, promising to take donations until they leave.

National and local conservation groups today plan to protest the armed occupants who have seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, casting the militants as thieves trying to rob Americans of their land.

After four years of a crushing drought, Californians are hoping El Niño storms bring relief this winter.

The Supreme Court today refused to revive an industry challenge to U.S. EPA's permitting rules for greenhouse gases.

The colorful case of the Alaskan moose hunter arrives tomorrow at the Supreme Court.

Use the buddy system. Keep an eye on Twitter. And you may just have to postpone a meeting or two. These are some of the steps recommended for federal officials whose agency is caught in a public lands feud with heavily armed libertarian protesters. More than 270 pages of Bureau of Land Management records obtained by Greenwire under the Freedom of Information Act give a behind-the-scenes glimpse of how the agency responded to activists who descended on Josephine County, Ore., in a protest last spring.

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