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Hundreds of water fountains in Chicago have been shut down after tests showed high levels of lead in drinking water.

The Environmental Working Group unveiled a program today that aims to bolster children's environmental health.

Autonomous driving technology is available now, but self-driving cars won't be ubiquitous for a number of decades, stakeholders and policy experts concluded at a panel discussion yesterday.

U.S. EPA announced today a strategic plan to "integrate ... environmental justice into everything we do."

Pro-ethanol trade association Growth Energy has named Christopher Hogan to become its vice president of communications and public affairs, the group said yesterday.

Fuel retailers' potential liability for engine damage caused by high-ethanol fuels shouldn't deter them from selling it, a Department of Agriculture official said yesterday.

U.S. policymakers must move beyond "magical" thinking if the country is going to meet aggressive climate targets through new technology, according to a report released today by a nonpartisan Washington, D.C., think tank.

Exxon Mobil Corp. and FuelCell Energy Inc. are teaming up to test carbon capture technology on a coal and gas plant in Alabama.

West Virginians affected by a massive 2014 chemical spill have reached a settlement with a chemical company.

Bayer CropScience "misled and deceived consumers" about the impact of its pesticides on bees and the environment and has subsequently pledged to reform its advertising, the Massachusetts attorney general announced yesterday.

A three-judge panel today seemed hesitant to reopen U.S. EPA's 2010 implementing rules for the federal renewable fuel standard program.

Oil and gas permitting can continue in New Mexico's contentious Chaco Canyon area, a federal court decided today.

Though storms in Northern California have alleviated, to some degree, the state's six-year drought, the southern part of the state is still beset by record dryness.

A previously pristine coral patch in the Great Barrier Reef appears to have died, according to researchers with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia.

Wildlife populations across the globe have plummeted by nearly 60 percent since 1970 due to widespread human activity, the World Wildlife Fund announced today.

Top Obama administration officials today are touring areas of Alabama that were important in the struggle for African-American civil rights — a sign the president may protect the sites as national monuments.

Architectural interests are calling on House and Senate energy reform bill conferees to keep intact a controversial 2007 law that requires new and renovated federal buildings to zero out fossil fuel-generated power by 2030.

U.S. EPA pushed hard to finalize the Obama administration's hot-button Clean Water Rule despite objections from other agencies, according to a report from Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

A majority of Nevada voters next month will support a measure on the ballot to open up competition in the electric energy market, according to a poll by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Margaret Flowers, the Green Party candidate running for Maryland's open Senate seat, took the stage during a televised debate yesterday and demanded to be included while police escorted her out of the room.

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