The juvenile blue crab population in Chesapeake Bay has surpassed its highest level ever recorded, and the overall blue crab population in the Bay reached its highest level since 1993, according to
State government officials in Utah are calling on the Obama administration to reverse its policy of curtailing oil and natural gas production on federal lands in western states.
Mohave County, Arizona is suing the federal government over new restrictions on mining operations that will place one million acres of uranium-rich lands off limits.
Environmentalists have filed a challenge to the U.S. Forest Service’s approval of a wind turbine project slated for Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is underestimating the costs of numerical nutrient restrictions it is imposing on Florida waters, the National Research Council (NRC) reports.
Detroit spends millions of dollars more each month than it receives in revenues and faces a challenge to continue providing the most basic of government services—police, fire, trash collection, eve
A group of California property owners and a public policy organization have filed a lawsuit to force the federal government to remove a beetle from the U.S.
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) issued a call to action to the state’s residents and businesses, urging them to participate in a voluntary initiative for cleaner air.
The Oregon Senate has passed a bill limiting the amount of mercury allowed in compact fluorescent light bulbs that can be sold or distributed in the state. The Senate passed the bill on Feb.
The alternative energy industry has found a reliable benefactor in the form of the Iowa legislature, which between 2003 and 2010 gave most of the state’s economic development subsidies to biofuel f
The average level of state sales taxes fell in 2011 to 5.49 percent, according to an annual report from Vertex, Inc., a provider of corporate tax software and services.
A federal district court has put a temporary stop to a California Air Resources Board (CARB) rule restricting carbon dioxide emissions from transportation fuels.
BP, an energy company that won praise from environmental activists after adopting the slogan “Beyond Petroleum” while investing heavily in solar power, is shutting down its 40-year-old solar busine
Canada is pulling out of the Kyoto Protocol, delivering another setback to advocates of global treaties to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
‘Not a Way Forward’
Chinese solar power companies reported larger-than-expected losses in the third quarter of 2011, with few buyers lining up to purchase solar power equipment.
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