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Federal regulators yesterday slapped the country's largest agricultural water district with an uncommon fine for misguiding bond investors about its financial standing.

The Indian sector of Unilever, Hindustan Unilever, has reached a settlement with hundreds of former employees over claims of mercury contamination that led its thermometer plant in southern India to close 15 years ago.

Asthmatic women who are exposed to air pollution even before conception are at significantly higher risk of delivering a baby premature, according to a new study.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is revising notification procedures for lead in its drinking water supply in response to recent contamination crises in Flint, Mich., and the village of Sebring, Ohio.

Michigan, the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit challenging U.S. EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, should drop its appeal and withdraw from the case, a Midwestern advocacy group urged this week in a letter to the state's attorney general.

The Obama administration's fuel economy standards need to be changed to meet the United States' obligations under the Paris climate agreement, the group Safe Climate Campaign argues.

Slovakia has signed up to build Europe's first Hyperloop, reaching an agreement with Hyperloop Transportation Technologies to explore construction of the conceptual high-speed transportation system.

Time is running out on legislation that would send $51 million in Utah sales tax revenue to Oakland, Calif., for a proposed coal export terminal.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's newest member took aim yesterday at recent criticisms from Congress and the nuclear industry about the agency's perceived overuse of "qualitative factors" in deciding regulatory actions.

U.S. EPA is not ensuring fixes meant to bolster cybersecurity have been implemented, according to its own internal watchdog.

Twitter removed tweets containing market-sensitive data from a U.S. oil industry group after it complained to the social media company, according to documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal.

One of the main U.S. solar associations is taking the solar out of its name.

An auction official based in Beverly Hills, Calif., pleaded guilty to partaking in a scheme to traffic illegal items made of rhinoceros horn, elephant ivory and coral worth upward of $1 million, federal prosecutors said yesterday.

Former coal mogul Donald Blankenship, who is already facing up to a year in prison for violating mine safety rules, is now looking at $28 million in restitution fees in connection with a fatal explosion six years ago.

The United States today sued a solar power company and its owner for marketing its panels to consumers with what prosecutors called illegal phone calls.

Final briefs are due this September in the rival legal challenges to U.S. EPA's recently adopted ozone standard, under a schedule issued yesterday by a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

The widow of slain rancher LaVoy Finicum plans to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the police who killed him last month, she announced yesterday.

A federal grand jury this week brought five new charges against the alleged occupants of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, greatly increasing the amount of prison time they could face if convicted.

A group of bison at Yellowstone National Park were transported to a slaughterhouse yesterday in a move to thin the park's herd size and decrease the likelihood of disease.

Mid-Atlantic grocery chain Giant Food Stores LLC will now serve 100 percent sustainably sourced seafood at its service counters, the company announced today.

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