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Advocacy group Moms Across America shot back today after its report alleging that a common weedkiller is showing up in breast milk came under criticism at a U.S. EPA science advisory panel meeting yesterday.

California carmaker Lucid Motors has unveiled a prototype luxury electric sedan aimed at challenging Tesla's Model S.

Scientists have discovered the world's oldest water deep within a Canadian mine.

Residents in Corpus Christi, Texas, have been advised to avoid using tap water due to contamination involving an unknown chemical.

A mining company in Colorado is challenging a Superfund designation by U.S. EPA for the Bonita Peak Mining District, asserting that the agency did not fully evaluate all the included mining pits.

States will get another three years to turn in a new round of plans for curbing haze-related pollution under the final version of regulations signed yesterday by U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy.

U.S. EPA would punt a final decision on expansion of the Ozone Transport Region until next fall under a tentative lawsuit settlement.

A recent investigation of the federal government's subterranean nuclear waste pit near Carlsbad, N.M., raised no red flags, the state's Environment Department said yesterday.

The Interior Department's Office of Inspector General has found "widespread corruption" at the Chippewa Cree Tribe, which has a contract with the Bureau of Reclamation for the planning and implementation of a rural water system.

Federal employees' morale at energy and environmental agencies continued to climb over the past year.

Icelandic geologists are about to complete the hottest borehole in the world.

Researchers say a special type of sawdust could help contain petroleum spills in Arctic waters.

California adopted the nation's first-ever mandatory efficiency standards for computers and monitors yesterday in a move that experts said could have national implications.

The judge presiding over the second trial of Oregon standoff defendants has dismissed a motion to delay the trial by two months, saying the prosecution failed to give her a good reason.

A federal judge this week signed off on a settlement requiring coal mining companies owned by West Virginia Democratic Gov.-elect Jim Justice to pay $900,000 in penalties to resolve water pollution violation allegations.

DuPont has agreed to a $50 million settlement to resolve claims that mercury released from a Virginia facility in the 1930s and 1940s polluted more than 100 miles of river and floodplain.

The Obama administration yesterday pushed back against foes' claims that U.S. EPA's carbon rule for new power plants far exceeds the agency's authority.

NASA launched eight mini-satellites today that will measure wind to help forecast hurricanes.

Oceans contain the wires responsible for 98 percent of the world's communication. They also contain abandoned cables and repeater devices worth billions of dollars.

The Obama administration today proposed a rule to require turtle excluder devices (TEDs) on all skimmer, pusher-head and butterfly trawls, a move that would save an estimated 2,500 endangered and threatened turtles each year.

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