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- HOUSTON (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp on Wednesday was digging out oiled lawns to replace them with fresh sod in an Arkansas neighborhood where a crude oil pipeline ruptured last week, but the line remained shut with no estimate of when it would...
- A new survey finds a strong majority of Republicans and conservative independent voters seek action on climate and non-polluting energy sources.
- (Seattle – April 3, 2013) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10 has ordered Oil Re-Refining Company (ORRCO) of Portland, Oregon to properly dispose of PCB-contaminated oil or pay a federal...
- In his post-White House life, Bill Burton is now fighting to block the Keystone XL pipeline extension. And when it comes to predicting how President Obama will decide whether to grant a permit, Burton -- who is now a senior adviser to the League of...
- BrotherMagneto Bill Pracht has bad memories of last summer. “The drought was so bad here that the corn was just decimated,” he recalls of the farm country around Garnett, Kan., where he oversees East Kansas Agri-Energy, an ethanol plant. “Many...
- Scientists have decoded the genome of the western painted turtle, one of the most abundant turtles on Earth, finding clues to their longevity and ability to survive without oxygen during long winters spent hibernating in ice-covered ponds.
- As the White House makes a concerted push to change the conservative makeup of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, it's worth asking, are his judicial nominees really controversial? Read full article >>
- (DALLAS—April 3, 2013) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced monitoring data from three schools in Texas indicate specific air toxics are below levels of concern. The EPA partnered with the Texas Commission on...
- The report released today describes the “water budget” approach being taken to assess water availability for the nation. Water budgets account for inputs to, outputs from, and changes in the amount of water in the various components of the water...
- April 3, 2013DOE Names Mark A. Gabriel as New Western Area Power Administration Administrator The Energy Department has chosen Mark A. Gabriel to be the new Administrator of the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA)
- The mountain ranges of the North American Cordillera are made up of dozens of distinct crustal blocks. A new study clarifies their mode of origin and identifies a previously unknown oceanic plate that contributed to their assembly. Geologists were...
- More useful projections of sea level are possible despite substantial uncertainty about the future behavior of massive ice sheets. In two recent articles, researchers present an approach that provides a consistent means to integrate the potential...
- Humans' closest animal relatives, chimpanzees, have the ability to "think about thinking" -- what is called "metacognition," according to new research.
- During the cold and dark of Arctic winter, sea ice refreezes and achieves its maximum extent, usually in late Feb. or early Mar. According to a NASA analysis, this year the annual maximum extent was reached on Feb. 28 and it was the fifth lowest sea...
- Shutterstock / Brandon SeidelThe electricity that powers Dallas is about to get a whole lot windier. Something refreshing is about to blow into Dallas, Houston, and other oil-soaked Texan cities: wind energy. Lots of wind energy. A wind-farm boom...
- EPA Finalizes $6.5 Million Cleanup Plan for Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation Superfund Site in Saratoga Springs, NYContact: Larisa Romanowski, (518) 747-4389, romanowski.larisa@epa.gov (New York, N.Y....
- If the sheet of ice covering Greenland were to melt in its entirety tomorrow, global sea levels would rise by 24 feet. Three million cubic kilometers of ice won't wash into the ocean overnight, but researchers have been tracking increasing melt...
- Climate models for the early Pliocene might be missing key processes. If researchers can uncover these missing processes, they can apply them to models of modern climate and improve future climate predictions.
- A huge pool of warm water that stretched out from Indonesia over to Africa and South America four million years ago suggests climate models might be too conservative in forecasting tropical changes. Present in the Pliocene era, this giant mass of...
- A new study shows clean-air regulations have dramatically reduced acid rain in the United States, Europe, Japan and South Korea over the past 30 years, but the opposite is true in fast-growing East Asian megacities, possibly due to lax antipollution...
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