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Last year's Superstorm Sandy resulted in the release of 11 billion gallons of sewage into nearby rivers and bays -- enough untreated and partially treated wastewater to fill 17,000 Olympic-sized…

The European Commission will impose a two-year ban on a group of pesticides thought to be harming global bee populations, the European Union's health commissioner said yesterday. The decision comes…

A government audit this week said U.S. EPA is still lagging in its approach to assessing and managing toxic chemicals, but the agency is cautioning that it needs substantive legislative…

The federal government does a poor job of encouraging employees to innovate, though environmental agencies do better than most, according to a new report from the Partnership for Public Service.…

The largest phone carrier in the United States is looking to spend $350 million to replace about 8,000 gasoline-powered vehicles over the next five years. AT&T wants more of its…

Navajo Nation tribal lawmakers voted yesterday to form the Navajo Transitional Energy Co. LLC, a limited liability company that would run the Navajo coal mine near Farmington, N.M. The tribe…

With the construction of California's bullet train slated to begin in July, the state agency behind the project is facing a number of obstacles. Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co.…

Activist groups slammed Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. for financing U.S. coal mining and coal-fired power in a report released yesterday on the links…

Oslo, Norway, where half the city is heated by burning garbage, has taken to importing trash from abroad. The city brings in trash from England, Ireland and neighboring Sweden to…

The Interior Department today said there is likely 7.4 billion barrels of recoverable oil in shale formations underlying North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana, more than doubling its previous estimate…

A jury yesterday found a suburban Chicago water official guilty of lying about covertly mixing contaminated well water into the village's drinking water supply. Longtime Crestwood, Ill., water department supervisor…

Environmental groups sued the South Carolina state-owned utility Santee Cooper in federal court yesterday for alleged pollution seeping from coal ash dumps at a now-closed power plant near Myrtle Beach.…

Federal judges today ruled that the Interior Department may retroactively void an agreement between an outside contractor and a Native American tribe over management of gas distribution on the tribe's…

State commissioners and the nuclear industry yesterday argued in a court filing that the Energy Department's latest defense for continuing to collect nuclear waste disposal fees from utilities is based…

Three species of butterfly are likely extinct, according to an entomologist who has spent years trying to track them down. The disappearance of the butterflies, native to south Florida, almost…

The Fish and Wildlife Service is soliciting public comment on a plan to use genetically modified crops to feed migrating waterfowl in national wildlife refuges in the Southeast. Farmers harvest…

New Mexico will need to manage its increasingly scarce water supplies more carefully and more collaboratively if the state is to have a sustainable future, according to a report commissioned…

Federal judges yesterday declined to rehear a March ruling upholding the Fish and Wildlife Service's decision to list polar bears as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Hunting groups and…

House lawmakers have reintroduced legislation that would allow states to cull large populations of double-crested cormorants. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) introduced H.R. 1788 with eight co-sponsors, including Minnesota Reps. John…

Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) and Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch faced off last night in a boisterous debate ahead of next week's 1st District special election. During much…

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