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U.S. EPA today announced more than 30 enforcement actions against home renovators for violating standards for lead paint removal.

Air quality regulators have determined that a metal manufacturing facility in Paramount, Calif., is likely responsible for years of pungent, metallic odors that residents and teachers at a nearby elementary school have complained about for years.

State lawmakers in Texas who consistently block pollution regulations have deep financial ties to the oil and gas industry, a new study shows.

Tulane University is offering a $1 million prize for the best idea to combat the "dead zones" plaguing the world's waters.

Apple Inc. and Tesla Motors Inc. held secret meetings last spring as rumors swirled about a possible buyout.

The global market for sea walls will reach $9 billion within 10 years, according to new analysis from an emerging-technologies research firm.

A nuclear power critic in Germany has used her activism to start a successful energy co-op.

Illinois and Maryland topped the U.S. Green Building Council's annual state ranking for new energy-efficient building certifications.

Charles Michael "Mike" Osborne, an environmental lawyer who practiced law in New Orleans for 45 years before moving to North Carolina in 2006, died Feb. 2 at his home in Asheville, N.C., of complications from Alzheimer's disease. Osborne was 77.

A California appellate court has agreed to hold an expedited review of the state's contested high-speed rail project.

A camel escaped from a makeshift zoo in a Southern California desert community Friday, attacking several people before it was corralled and seized by animal control officials.

Florida is considering new regulations for sea cucumber fishing after last year's catch nearly quadrupled due to rising demand.

The Fish and Wildlife Service will conduct status reviews of five threatened or endangered species found in Oregon, the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, the agency announced today.

Plentiful campaign cash and a series of high-profile endorsements may not be enough for Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz (D) to fend off primary challenger Rep. Colleen Hanabusa (D), as a new poll shows the appointed senator trailing his rival.

Calls to protect the U.S. electric grid from brazen attacks like one in California last year are growing on and off Capitol Hill.

U.S. EPA communications adviser David Bloomgren is leaving the agency today for a new gig at a public relations firm.

Clean Air Act expert Joe Kruger has left the Bipartisan Policy Center to join his wife, Dina, at a consulting firm she started in 2011.

Wyoming state lawmakers are mulling a plan to set aside $500,000 to prepare for litigation in favor of proposed coal export terminals in the Pacific Northwest.

A public utility has donated $1 million to maintain trails at the Grand Canyon, marking the beginning of a broader effort to attract private funds to keep up the national park's extensive trail system.

Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer is eyeing the Iowa Senate race as a stage for his bid to vault climate change to the forefront of the 2014 election season -- but getting involved in the Hawkeye State could risk compromising the purity of his parallel campaign against the Keystone XL pipeline.

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