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General Electric Co. has understated or misstated the environmental impact of chemicals it dumped into New York's Hudson River, federal officials said yesterday.

Utility Ameren Missouri said a new study shows coal ash from its Labadie, Mo., power plant has not contaminated local drinking water or polluted the Missouri River.

Duke Energy Corp. blamed a broken stormwater pipe for the spilling of between 50,000 and 82,000 tons of coal ash Sunday from a large impoundment at the retired Dan River Steam Station near the North Carolina-Virginia line.

While much of the American food system contains genetically modified ingredients, a few businesses are working to accommodate the growing number of U.S. consumers who want their food to be free of genetically modified ingredients.

Pebble LP, the company looking to build a large copper and gold mine in southwestern Alaska, announced an executive shakeup this morning, designed to take the project into the permitting process.

California has fined two subcontractor firms involved in a power plant implosion last year that injured five spectators.

A new study could raise questions about the accuracy of environmental impact assessments of Canadian oil sands days after the State Department released a report about the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry oil sands crude to Texas refineries.

A convicted felon from Oregon is suspected of ordering the murder of a former business partner after several oil deals between the pair fell apart, police said.

Federal judges today upheld the Department of Agriculture's decision to comply with an animal rights group's request for business information about dog breeders in Missouri.

Twenty-one states have joined an appeal by agricultural interests that challenges a court decision last year upholding U.S. EPA's cleanup plan for the Chesapeake Bay.

A federal appeals court yesterday declined to reconsider its ruling against environmental groups seeking to force Washington state to regulate greenhouse gases from local oil refineries.

Togoan authorities seized nearly 4 metric tons (4.4 tons) of ivory bound for Vietnam, officials said yesterday.

Customs officers at London's Heathrow Airport seized 13 extremely rare iguanas that had been hidden in socks.

SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. is seeking to block an animal rights advocacy group from requesting a shareholder vote on the creation of a coastal sanctuary for the park's killer whales, said the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

The Fish and Wildlife Service for the first time removed a fish from the endangered species list.

Nearly a decade ago, two Utah men used picks, shovels and other tools to blaze an illegal 7-mile all-terrain vehicle trail through Recapture Canyon, damaging ancient cooking structures, rock walls and other priceless artifacts.

Senate sponsors of a bipartisan bill that would overhaul government regulation of chemicals said today they've made "significant strides" on the measure and hope to have new language out soon.

West Virginia senators called for tighter federal regulations of chemical facilities and teed off on a lack of information from regulators in the aftermath of a spill last month of a coal-scrubbing chemical that left 300,000 West Virginians without tap water for days.

A former aide of embattled New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is married to the executive of a company that tried to build a natural gas pipeline through the state's Pinelands region, a project that the state aggressively supported.

New Jersey Rep. Rob Andrews (D) announced today he will resign his seat Feb. 18 to join a Philadelphia-area law firm, a decision that will end an ethics inquiry into whether the 12-term lawmaker misused campaign funds.

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