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Six recipients of the 2016 Goldman Environmental Prize, the world's largest award that honors individuals for their grass-roots environmental activism work, were announced today.

An American mining company has abandoned plans for a gold mine in the highlands of Peru after years of concerted local opposition that today won a local farmer a major award for grass-roots environmental activism.

Congressional Democrats asked the Department of Health and Human Services today to send more funds to Flint, Mich., as the city continues to struggle with public health crises.

Despite U.S. EPA's regulatory retreat, there's a need to explicitly exempt souped-up racing cars from the Clean Air Act's ban on emissions system tampering, the sponsor of one such bill to do so signaled late Friday.

Congress should approve legislation to require that all federal agencies factor in a price for carbon emissions when they review energy infrastructure projects, the liberal Center for American Progress said today.

President Jimmy Carter, who during his single term in office more than doubled the land managed by the National Park Service, was named an honorary national park ranger yesterday.

The Supreme Court shot down an appeal today in a case over companies' injection of acid into oil and gas wells in Illinois.

The National Flood Insurance Program is jeopardizing salmon and other endangered species in Oregon, according to a new federal biological opinion that could result in less development in high-risk flood areas.

North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem (R) may be the heir-apparent to retiring Gov. Jack Dalrymple (R), but he's got anything but an easy path to the governor's office this fall.

As President Obama looks for more lands to permanently protect as national monuments in his final nine months in office, he's unlikely to find many allies in the ranching community. Livestock officials argue monument designations under the 1906 Antiquities Act lead to grazing cuts that make it harder for ranchers to make a living off those lands. But the truth is far more nuanced, according to a Greenwire review of grazing data from nearly a dozen of the largest monuments designated by President Clinton.

The fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe is still taking its toll in Belarus 30 years later.

The European Commission has ordered a halt to two weedkillers linked to endocrine disruption, thyroid cancer, infertility, birth defects and reproductive problems.

Environmental groups are demanding new laws and an investigation into how hundreds of students became sick after being enrolled at a school built on a toxic waste dump.

Authorities say 11 empty train cars derailed yesterday morning in Fostoria, Ohio, located about 35 miles south of Toledo.

In the summer of 2013, Texas' then-governor, Rick Perry (R), announced that Chevron Corp. would build a 50-story tower in downtown Houston.

An oil pipeline owned by Marathon Pipe Line LLC in Illinois has spilled 1,150 barrels of diesel fuel.

Engineers in Colorado Springs, Colo., are poised to turn on a new $825 million pipeline to obtain up to 50 million gallons of water per day from the Arkansas River 50 miles away.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) will drink filtered tap water from Flint for the next month in a bid to show it poses no threat to residents.

Farmers in Denmark sharply cut discharges to water after the government linked them to how much in subsidies they would receive.

A leak inside a double-walled nuclear waste storage tank at the Hanford Site in Washington state got worse over the weekend, sparking an alarm at the site and stalling cleanup operations.

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