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Louisville air officials have received thousands of complaints about industrial and chemical odors over the past six years, but their environmental enforcement has not been evenhanded, according to a review of public records.

A team of researchers may have devised a way to recycle the lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles, a potential solution to a major headache for the industry.

A top-level administrator for Nashville public schools has been placed on administrative leave with pay after he was recorded talking about bypassing lead water filters.

About half of industrial facilities in Texas released illegal amounts of pollution into waterways over a 21-month stretch ending September 2017, according to an analysis by Environment Texas and the think tank Frontier Group.

A worker was likely dragging his foot on the floor of a chemical factory in Texas when he sparked an explosion and fire yesterday that injured him and another worker and left a third missing, according to investigators.

When a coal-fired power plant on the Navajo Nation closes in December 2019, some of the hundreds of displaced workers could find new jobs in the copper industry.

Colonial Pipeline Co. will pay Alabama $3.3 million in damages and penalties over a spill and explosion in 2016 from a gas pipeline. That includes a $1.3 million civil penalty and $1.8 million in projects.

Minnesota regulators have approved the last environmental review for Enbridge Inc.'s plan to replace its Line 3 crude oil pipeline, which runs through the northern part of the state.

An outside audit has cleared U.S. EPA of allegations that it relied on two flawed studies in estimating methane emissions and setting stricter oil and gas industry regulations.

A group of ranchers yesterday sued a utility for failing to mitigate the risk of a wildfire that damaged their property and killed their cattle.

An Arizona man was sentenced yesterday for his role in the 2016 occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

The invasive insect that is consuming Louisiana's wetlands appears to have jumped the border into Texas.

In an effort to halt the spread of aquatic invasive species, Yellowstone National Park has banned anglers from wearing felt wading boots.

When people plant fruit-bearing bushes or put out bird feeders, they could be shortening animals' migrations and encouraging the spread of diseases, new research shows.

The National Park Service wants to capture 20 to 30 wolves and relocate them to the Isle Royale National Park in Michigan, where researchers say only two of the animals remain.

The Bureau of Land Management is launching a detailed analysis of a massive proposed wind power project near the site of a contentious Obama-era project that a federal judge rejected two years ago due to "analytical gaps" in BLM's evaluation.

"Devastating." "Crazy." "Nervous."

A top Energy Department official offered himself this week as a champion for clean energy, immediately following his defense of President Trump's proposal for slashing funding for efficiency and renewables research.

Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), the first woman to chair the House Rules Committee, died this morning from injuries after a recent fall at her Washington, D.C., home. She was 88.

Rebuilding a hurricane-ravaged electrical grid isn't what Julia Hamm had in mind when she began working in the utility sector.

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