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Under pressure from California policymakers, the state will start using children's blood test results as a way to focus a cleanup of lead-contaminated taps in southeast Los Angeles County, officials said yesterday.

Mosquitoes transmitting the Zika virus may be more far-flung in the United States than previously thought, but that doesn't necessarily mean people are more likely to be infected, federal health officials yesterday said.

The White House Office of Management and Budget is weighing in on a final rule that would set long-delayed limits on formaldehyde emissions from wood products.

The United Kingdom will ship more than 1,500 pounds of nuclear waste to the United States as part of a deal, according to a British government source.

Neighbors of a St. Louis-area Superfund site scored a long-sought meeting yesterday with U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, who they said was "receptive" to their demands for relocation aid.

In the wake of last year's Gold King mine spill in Colorado, state and federal officials are looking to build a complete inventory of the hundreds of inactive mines that drain into Colorado waterways.

Updated U.S. EPA air pollution monitoring regulations will take effect late next month, more than a year and a half after the agency initially rolled them out.

Washington, D.C.'s aging Metro system could require shutdowns on entire lines for months at a time, the system's chairman, Jack Evans, said yesterday. At the very least, he said, riders should expect parts of individual lines to be closed for certain periods.

A vision of massive airships that deliver workers and supplies to the Canadian oil sands and mining sectors is a step closer to becoming a reality.

Tesla Motors Inc. will introduce its first mass-production vehicles this evening, but people are already placing reservations for the $35,000 electric cars.

Two former Republican-appointed U.S. EPA administrators are urging federal judges to uphold an Obama administration climate rule that's come under siege in court.

Prosecutors in Italy are probing Royal Dutch Shell PLC's connection to an oil deal in Nigeria, which threatens to entangle the firm in a corruption probe.

Attorneys representing Alpha Natural Resources Inc. have asked a federal bankruptcy judge to allow it to sever its contract obligations with the United Mine Workers of America in an effort to reorganize its finances in hopes of weathering the country's ongoing coal decline.

A U.S. federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought against the World Bank regarding a loan the bank granted for a power plant in India.

A New Jersey judge ruled yesterday that the state has the authority to condemn and seize private oceanfront property for beach and dune restoration projects.

The bulk of the Texas congressional delegation asked a federal judge to side with a group of their state's landowners who are suing the Bureau of Land Management over the boundary of the Red River.

In a narrow victory for conservationists, a federal court yesterday ordered the Fish and Wildlife Service to reconsider an authorization to harass or kill grizzly bears that it granted to the National Park Service.

The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish plans to use a pesticide suspected of causing health risks for humans and wildlife to aid trout in the Gila National Forest.

The damage incurred by the occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge will cost $1.7 million to clean up, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staff are getting back to work.

Restoring the Everglades could end up costing $16.4 billion and not the initially estimated $8 billion, according to a five-year update from the Army Corps of Engineers.

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