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Environmental protection officials in China were detained yesterday after officials discovered they had tampered with air equality monitoring equipment and falsified data.

The World Health Organization's cancer arm asked scientists on one of its review panels to withhold documents they were told to release under U.S. freedom of information regulations, according to Reuters.

Farmers in California's fertile Central Valley have infused billions of gallons of oil-field wastewater — possibly laced with toxic compounds — into 95,000 acres of crops since 2014, according to a report released today by the Environmental Working Group.

Byron Shaw, a former professor of water resources in Wisconsin whose findings led to the passage of the state's first groundwater protection law, died last week at the age of 73.

Hexavalent chromium, the toxin found in North Carolina wells near Duke Energy coal ash ponds, does not come from the ponds themselves but is naturally occurring, according to a study published today.

U.S. EPA released a white paper today laying out the agency's options as it revises the 25-year-old Lead and Copper Rule.

A train derailment in northern Wisconsin on Monday led to a chemical spill that brought hazardous materials workers to the scene. The wreck, just south of the town of Superior, caused no injuries.

The famous Budweiser Clydesdales have some new competition in the form of a self-driving truck.

Civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson said he will join the Dakota Access pipeline protests, bolstering the notion that Native Americans have a "moral claim to be heard."

Murray Energy Corp. is selling almost 6,000 acres of oil and gas reserves in the Utica Shale, the company said in an announcement this morning.

Texas leads the nation in flood fatalities, according to a tweet from the National Weather Service in La Crosse, Wis.

Death Valley in California does not hold the record of highest temperature recorded on Earth as was previously thought, according to an analysis out this week.

New York City's former mayor, Michael Bloomberg, is tackling climate change in a new book with environmentalist Carl Pope.

Critics of Exxon Mobil Corp. are touting a new study citing a 45 percent drop in company revenue over the past five years and lagging stock prices as evidence of a potentially irreversible decline, impacted by a global shift away from fossil fuels.

A man in southeast Texas has been sentenced to five years of federal probation for killing two endangered whooping cranes.

Former coal operator Don Blankenship is appealing his misdemeanor conviction in connection with the country's deadliest mine disaster in 40 years.

Rancher Cliven Bundy has retained Las Vegas attorney Bret Whipple for his defense in the Bunkerville standoff case.

Ammon Bundy's personal bodyguard during the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge yesterday was sentenced to nine months in jail, which he has already served.

A juror in the trial of seven defendants involved in the armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in January has been accused of personal bias.

U.S. EPA is the government agency that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce most frequently targets in litigation, according to a new report by a watchdog group.

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