BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities say 11 people confirmed dead in coal mine explosion, 128 trapped.

DALLAS (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court on Friday said it will again hear arguments in the nearly 15-year legal battle over accusations that Exxon Mobil Corp. loaded abandoned wells with...

DIMOCK, Pa. (AP) — Pat Farnelli says there's something in the water at her house. The last time she drank it, she says she vomited four times. It's made her...

Oil prices pushed higher for a second straight day on Tuesday even though the dollar strengthened and fresh economic data gave mixed signals on whether demand for oil will...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pollution typically declines during a recession. Not this time. Despite a global economic slump, worldwide carbon dioxide pollution jumped 2 percent last...

GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — Homes and office buildings consume three-quarters of U.S. electricity, and the National Renewable...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — At least for the moment, the world's fastest supercomputer is devoted to solving scientific questions that may save the planet — climate change, renewable...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea announced its first greenhouse gas reduction target Tuesday, pledging to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases by 4 percent...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Industrial production edged up 0.1 percent in October, a smaller-than-expected increase that signals a bumpy recovery ahead.

Stronger activity at...

NEW YORK (AP) — "How extraordinary," Catherine Givings observes. "It looks like a farming tool. Where do you put it?"

Indeed.

Sarah Ruhl — MacArthur...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An African has taken over as director of Greenpeace, bringing experience honed as a teenage opponent of white rule in South Africa and a network of powerful...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming lawmakers will soon take up the thorny issue of whether to impose new taxes on wind energy development, a proposal that developers say could stunt the...

VIENNA (AP) — Iranian construction of a previously secret uranium enrichment site is at an advanced stage, with high-tech equipment already in place at the fortified facility ahead...

PHOENIX (AP) — Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday announced plans for a Chinese-owned solar panel maker to build its U.S. headquarters and a manufacturing plant in the Phoenix area, propelling one...

HOUSTON (AP) — Smith International Inc., a provider of products and services used by operators during the drilling, completion and production phases of oil and natural gas development...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — International Coal Group said Monday it has settled a lawsuit filed by two environmental groups challenging a federal water quality permit for an Appalachian...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a draft report detailing previously reported problems with two waste impoundments at an American Electric Power...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Sweeping from lush mountain rain forests to pristine beaches, a corridor of land protected by Puerto Rico's last...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An African took over as director of Greenpeace Monday, bringing experience honed as a teenage opponent of white rule in South Africa and a network of powerful...

MOSCOW (AP) — Moscow on Monday dashed Iranian hopes that a Russian-built nuclear reactor will be switched on this year, a blow to Tehran amid persistent tension over its nuclear...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Independent oil and gas producer Devon Energy Corp. said Monday it will divest its Gulf of Mexico and international assets.

Devon expects the divestitures will...

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — AAA Michigan says gasoline prices are down 9.4 cents per gallon over the past week to a statewide average of $2.57.

The auto club said Monday the statewide...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Prices at Ohio gasoline pumps are down 10 cents this week amid a slump in oil prices.

A survey from auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and Wright...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell says he has the best interest of polar bears at heart, but he doesn't intend to let the federal government's expanded protection for bears...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The burning glow over North Dakota's oil patch is slowly dimming as companies work to capture and sell natural gas instead of flaring it.

Though the flares...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's main militant group in the oil-rich Delta region said Sunday that it had started formal peace talks with the country's president for the first time since it...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sarah Palin's new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven't become any truer over time.

Ignoring substantial parts of...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah oil refinery is shutting down after a gas explosion earlier this month damaged 10 homes.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board has been investigating the Nov....

HOUSTON (AP) — The number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. this week has risen by 23 to 1,101.

Houston-based Baker Hughes Inc. said Friday that 728...

DETROIT (AP) — Small car sales will continue to grow in the U.S. and likely will become the largest segment of the market by 2013, according to Ford Motor Co.'s top sales...

NEW YORK (AP) — Oil slid Friday to its lowest price in a month as investors started to pay more attention to a yearlong slump in American energy demand.

For most of the...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Arch Coal Inc. has signed a lease agreement to mine the vast Otter Creek coal field in southeastern Montana — ramping up pressure on Gov. Brian Schweitzer and...

NEW YORK (AP) — Teekay LNG Partners LP fell to a third-quarter loss, reversing a year-ago gain as it took a loss on derivatives.

The company said the net loss attributable to...

RED WING, Minn. (AP) — State regulators have approved Xcel Energy's request to increase power and radioactive waste storage at the Prairie Island nuclear plant.

The utility plans to...

DALLAS (AP) — While Texas maintains a firm grip on the dubious title of the nation's most prolific industrial polluter, an environmental group's report Thursday found that wind...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Organizers of the 2016 Olympics are pitching host city Rio de Janeiro as a potential "power island" immune from blackouts like the one that left 60 million...

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Hemlock Semiconductor Corp. and Tennessee officials on Thursday broke ground on a $1.2 billion plant and renamed the road leading to the sprawling facility "Solar...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Environmental activists are trying to stop the Tennessee Valley Authority from starting a daily 1 million gallon discharge of water that contains mercury,...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota regulators voted Thursday to drop a complaint against Falkirk Mining Co. for illegally removing topsoil to build a road in an area where the company...

NEW YORK (AP) — Americans spent about the same amount in October as in August and September, according to figures released Thursday by a key data service, and they may be settling...