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A settlement of up to $657.5 million has been reached in the cases of thousands of rescue and cleanup workers who sued the city over damage to their health, according to city officials.

A vote kept alive a deal to pay $536 million for land from United States Sugar, but officials said they continued to struggle with whether the agency could afford it.

The Vancouver Games forecasting system is part of a program to improve the accuracy of short-term, winter storm forecasting.

Negotiations on protecting endangered species will open in Qatar with tensions over efforts to ban trade in bluefin tuna and to reopen exports of elephant ivory.

In the last week, the president of SolarReserve and the chief executives of Clipper Windpower and Aurora Biofuels have stepped down.

Necessity or marketing gimmick? The Bucks blog helps consumers decide whether green insurance is worth it.

The European Commission said on Thursday that five countries were failing to meet goals for renewable energy but that they could make up their quotas by buying electricity from North Africa and the Balkans.

A program to encourage homeowners to add solar panels and make their houses more energy efficient through higher property taxes aims to scale up.

Ontario's Liberal government, citing growing water demand and limited supplies, is angling to make the province a clean-water technology powerhouse.

A Colorado company says ethanol is fine, but isobutanol is better.

When the software mogul Mitch Kapor won planning approval for his 10,000-square-foot house in Berkeley, Calif., neighbors were surprised that it will qualify as “green.”

Federal prosecutors have filed criminal complaint accusing a Japanese restaurant in Santa Monica and its chef of serving whale meat, a violation of the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act.

Proceeds from an electric rate increase would be earmarked for renewable energy purchases and programs.

The review aims to help the U.N. climate change panel avoid the kinds of errors that have brought its work into question in recent months, officials said Wednesday.

"The failure to extend and expand the ecoENERGY program will slow wind energy development and reduce our ability to compete with the United States," a wind industry representative said.

While Google, Wal-Mart and other corporations have embraced fuel cells, California regulators have turned down requests from the state's two biggest utilities to install the technology.

A new agricultural technology that cuts nitrogen fertilizer waste in half while boosting rice yields is spreading quickly in Bangladesh and other poor nations.

Syncrude, the Canadian oil sands giant, is defending itself against criminal charges for the deaths of thousands of birds in one of its tailings ponds.

The countries are the last two major economic powers to agree with the aims of the nonbinding agreement.

Starting in 2011, California will regulate emissions from electric utility equipment of the gas sulfur hexafluoride -- or SF6 -- which is used in high voltage transmission systems in circuit breakers, switches and insulation.