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In a decision certain to be closely scrutinized, EPA has handed Wisconsin state officials a partial victory in deeming the county that's slated to be the home of a massive manufacturing plant in compliance with its 2015 ground-level ozone standard.

It's not often the world uncovers a new natural wonder, but that's exactly what has happened in Peru.

Conservation groups are working to save more than 10,000 endangered radiated tortoises that were found jammed into a home in Madagascar with no food or water.

Residents of the United Kingdom may want to think twice before disposing of their wet wipes.

Fashion lines are increasingly turning to materials like mushrooms, lumber detritus and algae to make sustainable clothing.

Some hotel chains are getting rid of those tiny bottles of soap and shampoo and instead opting for larger, wall-mounted dispensers for their showers.

Men in Nigeria who work with electronic waste have decreased levels of important fertility hormones, new research found.

New Delhi has the worst air quality of any large city in the world, the World Health Organization said today.

After a court-ordered assessment, EPA plans to stay with existing air toxics standards for the nation's two major manufacturers of "friction materials" used in vehicle brakes and clutches.

After finishing its monitoring, EPA said it found no toxic substances in the air in northwestern Wisconsin at the site of an oil refinery blast at a Husky Energy plant Thursday.

A man in Florida was arrested last week after police say he slapped the water near 16 manatees on Long Key. Turns out that qualifies as harassment.

Volkswagen AG and two of its brands have reached a $2.65 million settlement with West Virginia over its emissions-cheating scandal, state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey (R) announced yesterday.

Litigation over the Obama administration's Clean Water Rule will continue in a North Dakota district court after a federal judge yesterday rejected the Trump administration's attempts to put it on ice for another year.

A biofuels advocacy group is challenging EPA's decision to exempt refiners from annual renewable fuel requirements.

A Louisiana House committee yesterday voted down a decision by the state's fisheries commission to allow aquaculture of a Russian fish.

New Orleans is staring down a new threat: invasive Cuban tree frogs that grow as large as a human fist and eat smaller frogs.

Female humpback whales in the southern oceans near Antarctica have been having more babies in recent years, according to new research.

A federal judge has rejected a bid by ranching and farming interest groups to revise his ruling mandating releases of water to protect threatened salmon in the Klamath River in southern Oregon and Northern California.

The National Park Service has long touted the Claude Moore Colonial Farm as a place where visitors could "step back in time" and see what life was like for a poor family in Northern Virginia in 1771, just before the Revolutionary War.

U.S. solar and wind companies have donated more money to Republicans than Democrats in midterm races so far, according to an analysis by Reuters.

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