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The utility behind the world's first carbon capture project on a commercial coal power plant is abandoning plans to expand the technology in the immediate future.

Two federal judges expressed frustration yesterday with EPA's foot-dragging on the regulation of a farm pesticide linked to children's health problems.

Unlike Justice Neil Gorsuch, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh hasn't called the Chevron doctrine entirely into question or questioned whether the law world would be better without it.

President Trump issued full pardons today to father-and-son ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond, declaring "justice is overdue" for the pair whose imprisonment for arson sparked the 2016 occupation of Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

Managers and employees involved in a 2014 mine disaster in western Turkey have been given prison sentences ranging from six to 22 years.

Elon Musk's plan for rescuing the trapped soccer team from the cave in Thailand was rejected, but the billionaire inventor is still defending it.

Cleanup and recovery continue following Japan's worst natural disaster since the catastrophic March 2011 tsunami.

Republican New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu signed a bill yesterday requiring the state environmental agency to review groundwater standards for chemical pollutants, while setting pollution standards for two other contaminants by 2019.

New Mexico officials have released an updated state water plan that calls for conserving groundwater and taking other proactive steps to mitigate the effects of severe drought.

Two environmental groups have sued a Pennsylvania county over a plan to use millions of dollars in air quality funds to improve the health department's office building.

After workers accidentally punctured a natural gas main yesterday, a gas leak caused an explosion that rocked a Wisconsin suburb, killing a firefighter and injuring at least a dozen others.

Six years ago, a longtime employee of Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality delivered a report to a former agency director warning of a brewing crisis caused by polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.

The family of a man fatally shot by the Park Police last year has filed public records requests seeking more information.

New research suggests even young, healthy people have trouble staying sharp in the heat.

A federal judge has ruled that lawsuits brought against Monsanto Co. by hundreds of cancer patients who blame the pesticide Roundup for their illnesses can move forward.

One of New Orleans' earliest environmental activists has died at age 75.

Whale bones unearthed at three ancient archaeological sites near the Strait of Gibraltar suggest a Roman whaling industry, according to experts.

Once scarred by acid rain, red spruce trees are rebounding in the Northeast, a new study has found. Scientists largely credit government regulations of air pollution meant to fight acid rain.

Conservationists are urging a ban on Mexican seafood imports to save the endangered vaquita porpoise from extinction.

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California yesterday voted for a second time in favor of committing nearly $11 billion to the delta tunnel project.

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