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U.S. EPA finalized cleanup plans for a Superfund site in Garfield, N.J., yesterday but admitted funds are lacking to administer the project.

Elected officials in Houston are pressing for the city's chemical companies to reveal where they store some of their most hazardous compounds.

A California dairy company is set to produce conventional milk without genetically modified organisms in a bet that health-conscious customers who cannot shell out for organic milk will still want non-GMO milk.

A joint government-nonprofit report released yesterday says the 72-mile stretch of the Mississippi River that flows through Minnesota's Twin Cities, while slowly healing, needs more protection to prevent pollution.

Pollution levels in the Chesapeake Bay dramatically dropped last year, according to the latest numbers from a public-private partnership group.

Potential carbon emissions from global reserves of oil, gas and coal in currently operating fields and mines would send the global temperature beyond 2 degrees Celsius of warming if they run to the end of their projected lifetimes, environmental groups said in a report released yesterday.

A federal judge ruled yesterday that a permit allowing Nestle to pipe water out of the San Bernardino National Forest in California is valid, even though the permit is 28 years out of date.

Court testimony revealed yesterday that a man who drove Ammon Bundy's Jeep on the day of his arrest was a government informant.

Louisiana auditors have found that the state's Department of Wildlife and Fisheries bought iPads, cameras, fishing equipment and entire boats with money intended to test fish for safety after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

The National Park Service is on the lookout for a suspect who drove through an off-limits area of Death Valley National Park and left 10 miles of tire tracks that marred a fragile landscape.

The United States and Canada yesterday brokered an agreement to share the cod population in the Atlantic Ocean next year.

The federal government is committing to spend an additional $360 million through 2018 to preserve the greater sage grouse and its habitat, aiming to ensure the bird will not need federal protection in the future.

Environmentalists yesterday filed a lawsuit over critical habitat for the bull trout in national forestland in Idaho.

Enterprise Rent-A-Car has left its membership in the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), an organization that has opposed climate change legislation.

A coalition of more than 1,200 archaeologists, historians and museum directors has written the Obama administration to criticize the Sept. 3 bulldozing of several sacred sites by the company behind the Dakota Access pipeline.

The largest manufacturing association in the country is launching a seven-figure ad campaign calling on President Obama to allow the Dakota Access pipeline to move forward.

A group of 16 donor countries and philanthropists, including Bill Gates and the Barr Foundation, today announced they will provide $80 million in assistance to boost the Obama administration's yearslong quest for an international amendment to curtail hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).

Former Alaska Sen. Mark Begich (D) said today he will not seek a return to Capitol Hill as a write-in candidate this November, rejecting a last-minute challenge to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R).

House Democrats today offered their own solution for lead contamination in public water systems: hundreds of millions of dollars in grants to communities and increased authority for U.S. EPA to set safe drinking water standards.

Speaker Paul Ryan suggested today the House could provide assistance to Flint, Mich., in its version of a water projects bill now due on the floor next week.

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