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U.S. EPA finalized a rule yesterday to reduce mercury discharges from dental offices.

Children's car seats are laced with toxic flame retardants, according to a study released this week by HealthyStuff.org.

Taking one small sip from a soda bottle could kill you.

A diver inspecting a water tower in Braintree, Mass., died yesterday when his air supply cut off.

Every year, farmers in northern India burn excess crop waste at the end of the harvest, and every year, the region is blanketed in a thick, heavy smog that can be seen from outer space.

A proposed desalination project in Orange County, Calif., would move in next door to a coastal power plant to take advantage of its closing intake pipe.

The dwarf planet Ceres is rich with ice below its surface, scientists said yesterday.

Despite most of the attention regarding the Dakota Access oil pipeline focusing on the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's water concerns, many other cities across the three states the pipeline travels have voiced their worries.

The Army Corps of Engineers' decision to let Georgia draw the water it requested from a contested river basin it shares with Florida and Alabama is likely to fuel many years of lawsuits in the decadeslong, tri-state brawl, water-law experts say.

Security officials call it the "nightmare scenario" — a power plant hack releasing uncontrolled radiation — and states need to defend against it, according to U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson.

Energy Transfer Partners LP has delayed the closing date of a $2 billion deal to finance part of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, buying time to clear up a problem that has clouded the contentious project's finances.

The last significant unexplored region on the planet has now been surveyed.

A defunct Texas carbon capture project that was a focus of the Obama administration could be revived under a new design.

The American Chemistry Council has settled a lawsuit against U.S. EPA stemming from revised agency regulations covering hazardous air emissions from businesses that store and treat used oil, used solvents and other wastes.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected environmental groups' request for a full court review of a key jurisdictional issue in the legal battle over U.S. EPA's regional haze rule for Texas.

The Obama administration is appealing a district court finding that U.S. EPA failed to analyze jobs losses and employment shifts tied to its air regulations.

A veterinarian who spawned an uproar after posting photos of his trophy kills online has died.

Mexican authorities are lending a helping hand to the world's smallest porpoise by taking in illegal "ghost" fishing nets.

The prognosis is not good for the Chimney Tops Trail.

Multiple state and federal agencies agreed on a conservation management plan for Yellowstone-area grizzly bears Wednesday, but a decision to remove the bears from the endangered species list will still take more time.

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