There’s a high probability Europe's deadly E. coli did come from bean sprouts. We always knew they were gross.

Nuclear Regulator Commission head Gregory Jaczko manipulated his colleagues into killing the Yucca Mountain nuclear storage compound, according to an inspector general report. Also, no one likes him.

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Lower winds are helping Arizona best that wildfire, but the fire could still burn through electrical transmission lines and cut power to the region.

Exxon's buying into shale gas.

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Here are two more arrows for the “climate change exists” quiver. Snow pack in the West has declined before, but the reductions since the late 20th century were different than any since 1200. And summers are going to get hotter.

Nevada is going all in on geothermal power.