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Court Upholds First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Permit … EPA Allows BP to Write New Federal Contracts … Feds Sued to Force Seafood Labeling for Mercury … Asian Carp Eggs Found 250 Miles Farther North … Settlement Protects Endangered Murrelet From Predators … 74.1 MPG Wins Extreme Hypermiling Challenge […]

Keystone XL Opponents Deliver Two Million Comments … Bison Trap Blockader Arrested, Charged, Released … Kalamazoo Tar Sands Spill Demonstrators Sentenced … EPA Sued Over ‘Inert’ Pesticide Ingredients … 5,900 Gas Leaks Found Beneath Washington, DC … Catalina Island Foxes Multiply in Quick Recovery […]

Polluting Coal Companies Fined Record $27.5 Million … Superfund Project Manager Gets 14 Years for Kickbacks … Clergy Lobby Against Keystone XL Pipeline … Agencies Plead for Human Use of Water Now Protecting Fish … California Man Guilty in $7 Million Alt Energy Fraud … Groups Sue FDA Over Mercury in Dental Amalgam […]

U.S. Prosecutes Importers of Toys Containing Lead, Phthalates … Poll: West Virginia Voters Want Politicians to Protect Air, Water … New Coal Data Browser Digs Into U.S. Coal Sector … San Diego Port Installs Shore Power for Cargo Ships … Petition to Save Monarch Butterfly Targets Weed Killer […]

Billion Birds Die Annually in U.S. Building Collisions … Yellowstone National Park Plans to Kill 800 Bison … Vermont Rejects Biomass Power Plant Over CO2 Emissions … New York Officials Propose Nation’s First Microbeads Ban … Used Plastic Bags Converted to Petrol Fuels […]

New York Executes ‘Operation Angry Birds’ Cockfighting Bust … Duke Energy Spills Coal Ash Into North Carolina River … W.R. Grace Pays $63 Million to Clean, Restore Superfund Sites … Poll: Voters Support Carbon Limits on Power Plants … Groups Urge Public Disclosure of Oil & Gas Chemical Emissions … Oregon Chub Recovered, Says Fish & Wildlife Service […]

EPA Must Finalize Coal Ash Rule in 2014 … Feds Will Cut CO2 Emissions From Apartment Buildings … House Approves Farm Bill, Debate Rages On … Congressman Henry Waxman, Environmental Champion, to Retire … Shell Drops Arctic Drilling Plans for This Year … New Jersey Abbatoir Shuttered for Abuse of Downed Calves … Birders’ Threat to Sue Halts Camp Perry Wind Farm […]

West Virginia Governor Orders Chemical Leak Tank Removed … Court Rejects Chukchi Sea Oil and Gas Lease Sale … U.S. Mayors Plan Energy-Efficient Investments … Keystone XL Contractor, ERM Group, Also OK’d Alaska’s Pebble Mine … $35 Million Helps Conserve Vanishing Coastal Wetlands … Half U.S. Wolf Population Killed in Two Years […]

West Virgina Chemical Spill Prompts New State, Federal Laws … TransCanada’s Keystone Gulf Coast Pipeline Set to Open … California Governor Suspends State’s Environmental Law … Enviros Lose Legal Bid to Halt Birmingham’s Northern Beltline … Zero-Emission Buses Funded for Service Across USA […]

Court Upholds Multi-Billion Dollar BP Settlement … Boxer Spearheads Senate Climate Action Task Force … New York State Prepares for Future Superstorms … RGGI States Slash Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Power Plants … Poll: Latino Voters Reject West Coast Coal Exports to China […]

West Virginia Coal Chemical Spill Pollutes Drinking Water … Texas Court Demands TransCanada Respond to Eminent Domain Appeal … Fossil-Filled Lands Added to Petrified Forest National Park … Court Allows Motorized Vehicles in Custer National Forest … Colorado Outfitter Charged With Illegal Capture, Maiming of Big Cats … Red Tides Kill Hundreds of Florida’s Endangered Manatees … EPA Selects State Capitals for Green Design Aid […]

Icy Cold a Bird Killer … EPA Proposes Strict Air Standards for New Woodstoves … Renewable Energy Tax Credits Expire … Public Comments Invited on 2,4-D Tolerant Corn, Soybeans … Army Corps Recommends Barrier Between Great Lakes, Mississippi … Court Allows Railroad Coal Dust Lawsuit to Proceed … EPA Justified in Texas Fracking Drinking Water Controversy […]

Michigan OKs Road Testing of Self-Driving Cars … Wisconsin Cheese Brine on Ice … Coca-Cola Pours Funds Into Alternative Fuel Fleet … EPA Gets the Lead Out of Soil at Newark Housing Project … Limited Nutrients Changing Great Lakes Ecosystems … Nature Conservancy Works With Feds on Controlled Burns … Household Dogs Protect Against Asthma in Mice […]

Secretary Jewell Rejects Road Across Alaska’s Izembek Wildlife Refuge … Former BP Engineer Guilty: Obstruction of Justice … Bee Industry Seeks EPA Rethink of Bee-Killing Pesticide … New York Lawmakers to Hold Ivory Trade Hearing … No Halt to Ogllala Aquifer Unsustainable Water Loss … Heat Kills Sonoran Desert Tortoises […]

FDA: Antibacterial Soaps Risky, Plain Soap Just as Good … EPA Will Reduce Inspections, Enforcement Cases … Blumenauer Bill Promotes Greener Trade With USA … Groups Urge Tax Credit for Offshore Wind Power Investment … Texas Refinery Settlement Limits Greenhouse Gases, Toxics … Groups Sue to Protect Whales, Dolphins From Navy Sonar […]

Wyden Bill Marries Oregon Timber Harvest and Conservation … 90 Groups Seek Federal Curbs on Methane Emissions … Fracking’s Hidden Climate Impacts Exposed … EPA Adds Nine Hazwaste Sites to Superfund List … Four of Every 10 U.S. Households Could Switch to Electric Vehicles […]