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A chemical barrel recycling plant in St. Francis, Wis., releases clouds of bad-smelling fumes that nearby residents say leave them nauseous and sick.

U.S. EPA yesterday ordered six companies to cover the $26 million cost of cleaning up a Superfund site in East Chicago, Ind.

Work has been suspended at the Hanford nuclear reservation's Plutonium Finishing Plant after another report of radioactive contamination.

Dozens of residents reported headaches, nosebleeds and burning sensations after Southern California Gas Co.< yesterday reported a minor natural gas leak at its Aliso Canyon facility near Los Angeles.

The common weedkiller glyphosate likely doesn't cause cancer, U.S. EPA said in its latest review of the farm chemical better known by the brand name Roundup.

An Amtrak train that derailed off an overpass and onto a busy highway outside Tacoma, Wash., yesterday was going 50 mph over the speed limit for that section of track, National Transportation Safety Board officials said last night.

Citing the ongoing response to Hurricane Harvey, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott yesterday evening moved to suspend for the fifth consecutive month more than a dozen environmental regulations and scores of other rules governing everything from dental licenses to alcohol sales.

The Federal Aviation Administration has banned drone operation over seven Department of Energy sites, the government announced yesterday.

Jim Gordon spent 16 years and $100 million trying to launch an offshore wind industry in the United States with a massive farm called Cape Wind. But after a relentless series of setbacks and lawsuits, the Energy Management Inc. president pulled the plug on the proposed farm in Nantucket Sound early this month.

State regulators urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission yesterday to reform the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act, or PURPA.

The U.S. Geological Survey today released a report highlighting the nation's dependence on foreign countries for 23 mineral commodities seen as "critical" to American economic and national security.

One of the world's biggest mining companies said today it plans to leave a major lobbying group over its environmental policies.

The owner of a vintage clothing store in California pleaded no contest to charges of selling items made from protected species such as cheetahs, leopards and ocelots.

Coming to a computer near you: live audio streaming of oral arguments in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

A federal appeals court today reversed a lower-court ruling requiring more environmental review of a proposed rail project in the Maryland suburbs of D.C.

The Coast Guard seized almost 7 tons of cocaine and saved an endangered sea turtle while on patrol in the Florida Keys last month.

Federal officials have found two previously undiscovered plumes of oil and gas flowing at the site of a leak that began more than a decade ago.

A rare crocodile lizard, a snail-eating turtle and a bat with a face shaped like a horseshoe are among the 115 new species found in the Greater Mekong region.

The tri-colored bat and the poacher-threatened Venus' flytrap deserve closer study to determine whether they require protection under the Endangered Species Act, the Fish and Wildlife Service announced today.

Two states and a coalition of environmentalists are taking the Trump administration to court for rolling back Obama-era restrictions on methane emissions from the oil and gas industry.

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