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A company study of the Freedom Industries water treatment plant that ruptured in 2014 and created a public health crisis in West Virginia may show that the company was aware of flaws in its structure before the accident.

A coalition of environmental, food safety and animal welfare groups is again suing to prod U.S. EPA to respond to a 2011 petition to regulate ammonia emissions from livestock operations.

Colorado environmentalists are urging their state to use the settlement from the Volkswagen emissions scandal to promote clean transportation options.

U.S. EPA's internal watchdog has begun to audit the agency's reporting of improper payments.

Two married Bureau of Indian Affairs employees attempted to solicit jobs with a tribe while helping the tribe obtain federal funds for its forestry program, the Interior Department inspector general found.

A 1,000-ton tidal turbine was lowered into the seabed of the Bay of Fundy near the town of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, yesterday.

Environmental groups yesterday urged banks backing the Dakota Access oil pipeline with a $2.5 billion loan to halt their payments in an open letter.

Environmental groups battled freight giant BNSF Railway in federal court yesterday, alleging that the company must cover its coal shipments in order to prevent water pollution.

Scientists from Alabama, Florida and Georgia studying the Chattahoochee, Flint and Apalachicola rivers used to play volleyball together to let off steam and build trust after negotiations on water distributions.

A federal judge sentenced two Florida men yesterday to more than 10 years in prison each for their roles in a biodiesel fraud scheme, the Department of Justice announced today.

Federal judges today appeared to lean toward rejecting a legal challenge to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's license renewal proceedings for a North Carolina hydroelectric project.

Scientists have found that seized ivory shipments consist primarily of recently poached tusks, according to a forensic study released yesterday.

Bats are joining birds as the victims of wind turbines, according to a new study from the United Kingdom.

Genetically modified crops can help in the fight against climate change, a Purdue University study found.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's opposition to wind energy presents a challenge for Trump supporter and Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad.

Evan McMullin is an obscure Republican former congressional staffer, a 40-year-old middle-class single man and a Mormon whose mother married a woman after she divorced his father.

Protesters at the Dakota Access oil pipeline haven't found support from any presidential candidate this election.

Two Democratic electors in Washington state say they might refuse to cast their Electoral College ballots for Hillary Clinton if the Democratic nominee wins the state today.

In January, as Hillary Clinton's campaign was getting ready to hammer Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) on climate policy, at least one aide was wary of overdoing it.

The former head of the Energy Department's loan office pitched himself to Democrat Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign as keen to assist with clean energy issues, leaked emails show.

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