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Looming environmental rules could prompt We Energies to shutter the only major power plant serving Michigan's Upper Peninsula in coming years. It is a scenario playing out across the Midwest,…

The "Manager's Handbook on Handling Traumatic Events" has this advice on dealing with employees under extreme stress: "Make it clear that this is a difficult period, and it's OK to…

HOUSTON -- A Texas company is aiming to have the nation's first offshore turbine up and spinning by year's end, part of a larger push to make the Lone Star…

In August 2008, conditions were ripe for a meeting held between auto executives, environmental groups and California's air pollution regulators. Gas prices were skyrocketing, Detroit's automakers were losing the market…

Looking to speed emerging energy technologies to its bases -- especially ones that can help its 300,000 buildings use power more efficiently -- the Defense Department on Friday unveiled 27…

Bugs and disease are expected to kill off a third of eastern Washington forests within the next 15 years, according to new state projections. To stop the deterioration, the state…

Opposition is growing to a bill from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) that would promote natural gas vehicles, with conservative groups calling it a handout akin to the Solyndra…

Florida Power & Light Co. is making "virtually a brand new" plant out of its Turkey Point nuclear station with a $1 billion upgrade. The utility company is adding two…

The containment building holding Progress Energy Inc.'s Crystal River plant was already falling apart when monitors found another pile of shattered concrete on July 26. The incident marked the third…

Chevron Corp.'s top Brazilian official said yesterday the oil company "takes full responsibility" for an oil spill off the South American nation's coast and promised to investigate what went wrong…

An appeals court today will hear arguments over the legality of a 2003 water deal that environmentalists say poses a serious threat to the Salton Sea. The sea, in Southern…

A new report by the Civil Society Institute lays out a road map for decreasing the use of nuclear, natural gas and coal-fired power plants while ramping up the use…

Connecticut officials privately say that removing fuel cells from the Connecticut Juvenile Training School will save the state $1.4 million every year to run. The cells were installed for the…

Federal agencies are investigating whether pump damage at an Illinois water district may have been caused by foreign hackers. If hackers accessed the district's system, it would be the first…

A new plan to downsize buffalo herds in Yellowstone National Park would allow for the hunting, slaughtering or transportation of as many as 360 wild bison, according to park documents.…

Silky sharks will get better protected in the Atlantic Ocean as the 48-member International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas has agreed to mandate the sharks be released alive…

Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere rose to a high in 2010, according to the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization. Carbon dioxide rose by 2.3 parts per million between 2009…

Trevor Sparks grew up working on his parents' oil fields, but when it came time to choose his own career, he wanted to pursue a "cleaner" job. As a resident…

Hexavalent chromium has been spreading for three decades under a neighborhood in Garfield, N.J., and the state Department of Environmental Protection has taken little action to correct it. In 1983,…

Environmentalists have compiled a lengthy list of complaints about Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) since his election in 2010, but with the exception of the state's Sierra Club chapter, those…

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