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Government bans on plastic products can effectively reduce waste, but only if properly enforced, according to a United Nations report released today to coincide with U.N. World Environment Day.

After intense public outcry, Volkswagen AG has committed to end testing on animals.

The agency created to investigate industrial accidents is dogged by a weak leadership structure and budget woes, according to its internal watchdog.

Workers are still cleaning up after an abandoned mine pit polluted the Embarrass River and connecting lakes in Minnesota.

A new project from Carnegie Mellon University aims to trace Pittsburgh's famous air pollution right to the source.

Recycled wastewater from Modesto, Calif., is now flowing to farmers and wildlife in the San Joaquin Valley, a potential model for the future in a drought-plagued state.

Federal officials with the Department of Energy want permission from New York to store 22 containers of radioactive and chemical waste at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in Niskayuna, N.Y.

Paul Gilman, a self-described musical visionary, told his investors he could use the power of sound to make oil flow more efficiently through pipelines.

The first grid-scale liquid air energy storage (LAES) plant opens today in Bury, England.

Two workers have died from steam burns at a Kansas coal-fired power plant, the state's largest source of electricity.

The Bureau of Land Management has failed to adequately track expenses for the cleanup of abandoned oil and gas wells on federal and American Indian lands, according to a newly released analysis from the Government Accountability Office.

California and Oregon have asked to join the legal brawl over what they call President Trump's "sophomoric" executive order requiring federal agencies to scrap two regulations for every new one created.

Three environmental groups are suing EPA over a recent change to the New Source Review air permitting program.

One hundred redwoods are headed to Seattle to serve as a genetic archive of ancient trees. The only problem is, they don't yet have a home.

Two people were injured in a rock fall at Zion National Park over the weekend, prompting the closure of a popular trail.

The Great Barrier Reef has seen a steep decline in coral cover, a phenomenon that "has not been observed in the historical record," a report by the Australian Institute of Marine Science says.

Biomedical researchers have entered the thicket that entangles the importation of foreign fish and wildlife.

The Department of Transportation this week boasted it was cutting the most red tape of any federal agency.

Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren today railed against the Trump administration's "war on regulations," attacking corporate influence in the rulemaking process and defending robust environmental protections.

A Senate Appropriations panel this morning advanced its transportation and infrastructure spending bill with bipartisan fanfare.

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