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U.S. EPA announced plans yesterday for removing 202,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil at the San Jacinto River waste pits Superfund site near Houston.

Medak, the center of India's antibiotics manufacturing industry, might be feeling the environmental impact of its over 300 drug firms.

Industrial air pollution in the United States is concentrated among a small number of facilities, according to an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity, the Weather Channel and USA Today.

U.S. EPA could soon publish a proposed blueprint for implementation of its 2015 ozone air quality standards now that the White House Office of Management and Budget has completed its review.

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx urged city planners to look to the future and use technology to benefit their communities, during remarks at a Smart Cities Week conference today.

Despite the impacts of climate change, a new study finds that although there may be regional shifts in flooding patterns, there has been no countrywide shift.

Volkswagen AG, still embattled by its emissions-cheating scandal unveiled by U.S. EPA last year, said it is cooperating fully with U.S. authorities to reach a settlement fine.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court yesterday shut down a "special law" that benefited the shale gas industry.

Court testimony revealed yesterday that two FBI agents attended services at a Mormon church in Burns, Ore., in January, as part of the bureau's investigation into the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation.

Sears Home Improvement Products Inc. has agreed to pay a $400,000 penalty to resolve allegations that it violated lead requirements during home renovation projects in six states.

Although policymakers have for years blamed coca farming for deforestation in Peru, Bolivia and Colombia, researchers are now pointing fingers at infrastructure projects meant to open up the western Amazon for investments.

Herring fishing will not be allowed off of sections of the New England coast for most of October.

The Malheur National Wildlife Refuge has become famous for the armed takeover that lasted 40 days and led to the arrest of 27 people earlier this year, but despite all the attention, the wildlife refuge has continued to quietly provide a haven for hundreds of bird species.

Regulators in Wyoming yesterday approved the state's first major coal mine in decades, despite complaints from another coal company.

The Forest Service is planning to streamline its recreation permit process in an effort to expand access to public lands.

The Fish and Wildlife Service will ban 10 foreign freshwater fish and one crawfish from the United States, citing concerns that they pose a "high risk" for invasiveness.

The Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it is extending Endangered Species Act protections to 49 Hawaiian species and a Midwestern rattlesnake.

An agribusiness trade association launched a video advertising campaign this week to promote pesticides by comparing use of the chemicals to sexual protection.