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U.S. EPA has made "substantial improvements" to its Integrated Risk Information System process three years after the program was criticized as poorly run, a panel of scientists said today.

Coca-Cola Co. said yesterday that it would remove an ingredient criticized by some consumers from all its beverage products by the end of the year.

Firefighters are investigating a four-alarm blaze that lit up a coal-fired plant in Colorado Springs, Colo., yesterday morning.

Canada's largest natural gas producer is hoping to put scandal behind it after reaching a $5 million settlement with Michigan over collusion charges.

State regulators are weighing in on U.S. EPA's climate change rule for existing power plants with a month to go before the proposal's release.

A city and county government in West Virginia filed a federal lawsuit yesterday seeking to force the removal from a local landfill of 228 tons of waste linked to a chemical spill earlier this year.

Judges were skeptical of environmentalists' arguments today in a case pitting green groups against U.S. EPA on the validity of a memo instructing states to continue to use an old air pollution rule.

A tribal sovereignty activist has died after decades of fighting for tribes' right to fish in their waters.

Ten groups have submitted applications to take a group of 135 disease-free Yellowstone National Park bison, Montana authorities said yesterday.

The mayor of a Newfoundland town has raised a stink with the Canadian government after trying to auction off a whale carcass on eBay.

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill killed hundreds of thousands of birds, two studies show.

Texas officials are moving ahead with collecting property taxes on land that could belong to the federal government.

Drones are annoying wildlife in Utah's most visited park.

The threat of extinctions from global climate change far outweighs the risks to local bird and bat species from new wind farms, according to a new paper by scientists from a wind energy coalition.

The Fish and Wildlife Service is asking a federal court for a six-month delay in making a final determination whether to list the Gunnison sage grouse as an endangered species, a move that has drawn cheers from Colorado elected leaders who fear the listing could have significant economic impacts.

Gina McCarthy will represent the Obama administration at Costa Rica's presidential inauguration this week.

U.S. EPA's Office of Inspector General is initiating a probe into the agency's study of large-scale mining's impacts in southwestern Alaska, according to a memo released yesterday.

When Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski's staff brought her an early draft of a white paper looking at overlapping issues related to water and energy, there was so little data that her state didn't even appear on two of the maps.

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee plans to mark up its version of a long-term highway and transit funding bill next week, Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said today, even as lawmakers remain at odds on how to prop up the Highway Trust Fund through the end of September.

The Senate today formally opened debate on a formerly thwarted energy efficiency bill even as a continued partisan impasse threatened to again relegate the bill to the legislative dustbin.

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