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A pervasive odor of raw sewage is so powerful in a Columbia, S.C., neighborhood that many residents have stopped going outdoors.

Michigan was granted approval yesterday to spend about $119 million over five years to combat lead contamination in homes of low-income residents in Flint and other municipalities.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has unveiled guidelines designed to make hybrid and electric vehicles loud enough so pedestrians and the blind can hear them on streets and in parking lots.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced yesterday it is taking public comments on a proposed nuclear waste dump in West Texas.

Donald Trump's campaign promises to lift federal environmental regulations on oil, gas and mining have encouraged mining equipment manufacturers.

Biofuel made partly from logging scraps fueled an Alaska Airlines plane traveling from Seattle to Washington, D.C., yesterday, marking the first commercial flight powered by wood.

In the wake of Donald Trump's election as president last week, San Diego officials are trumpeting their city's success in meeting climate change goals.

MARRAKECH, Morocco — French President François Hollande took on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump today, telling a gathering of world leaders that he would "demand" that Trump honor U.S. commitments to the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Two reports are warning today that the world is wildly off course in deploying carbon capture and sequestration technology needed to avoid catastrophic climate change.

A lawsuit against Chrysler claims that engines in some Dodge trucks were rigged to hide emissions that were as much as 14 times higher than permitted by law.

Volkswagen AG is inching closer to a resolution on its emissions-cheating scandal, with sources saying the company has reached an agreement with U.S. environmental regulators to buy back or fix about 80,000 vehicles with tainted 3-liter diesel engines.

In an initial clash of court briefs yesterday, industry and environmental groups leveled biting attacks on U.S. EPA's pollution standards for brick and clay ceramics manufacturers, issued last fall.

Environmentalists sued the Obama administration today over hydraulic fracturing in the Pacific Ocean, the second such lawsuit in a week.

A member of the Crow tribe from Pryor, Mont., pleaded guilty yesterday to federal charges that he illegally shot and butchered a bison and illegally possessed a bald eagle carcass.

Cattle ranchers in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona are used to dealing with natural forest fires. But they face another challenge in addition to the recent drought: arson fires set as diversions by smugglers or accidentally by undocumented people crossing the border.

Animal rights activists are calling for restaurants to stop serving live seafood.

A female panther crossed the Caloosahatchee River in Florida this year for the first time in four decades, which conservationists say is an important success for the species.

Remarks by Donald Trump Jr. in support of a larger role for businesses in national parks have taken on new significance in the wake of his father's surprise presidential victory.