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Sixteen groundwater wells near an Air Force base in Washington state have tested positive for PFOS and PFOA, chemicals used in a firefighting foam that the military has used for decades.

New York City officials want to dump chlorine into sewer pipes that take bacteria into the waterways in an effort to combat the raw sewage that empties into the waterways during rainfalls.

Over 8,000 residents in Flint, Mich., have been warned they could lose their homes due to outstanding water bills just weeks after state officials stopped a program that paid for the majority of the costs.

The most biologically diverse waterway in America — the Indian River Lagoon in Florida — is sick.

A worker at a nuclear reactor in New Jersey failed to comply with procedure after making an error that shut the plant down in September 2015, according to federal officials.

A Kentucky lawsuit challenges the state's new coal ash regulations set to take effect tomorrow.

Patrice Simms, once a top environmental attorney at the Justice Department, has joined Earthjustice.

A company in Alaska is hoping to reopen the historic Lucky Shot gold mine in the Talkeetna Mountains next year.

A black rhinoceros horn was stolen from a locked room at the University of Vermont.

A large number of dead fish are washing up in the Navesink River in Red Bank, N.J., and state environmental officials don't know why.

More rain is on the way in the Midwest today and tomorrow after floods in the region killed at least five people and forced hundreds to evacuate their homes.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke met with leaders of the Ute Indian Tribe yesterday to discuss Bears Ears National Monument, hours after members of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition slammed the Trump administration for "cherry-picking" meetings with opponents of the 1.35-million-acre site.

James Singer, a 34-year-old Navajo and Mormon, plans to challenge Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch in 2018.

Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) said yesterday that she will run for re-election in 2018, quashing rumors of a challenge to Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake (R).

Oregon's Democratic senators are telling the Trump administration to steer clear of a contentious gas export project on the state's western coast that White House officials are eager to revive.

Ivanka Trump quotes Jane Goodall, the storied primatologist and conservationist, in her new book, "Women Who Work," which was released Tuesday.

Virginia Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Tom Perriello released his first television spot today, and it features former President Obama, who touted the candidate's brief stint in Congress during a recent rally.