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The Louisiana House approved a bill yesterday seeking to void a lawsuit by a New Orleans-area levee board seeking payment for coastal restoration from 97 oil and gas companies.

Officials in Missouri are investigating whether a chemical spilled at a Tyson Foods plant is responsible for a massive fish kill and foul odor in the area.

Residents of Curry County, Ore., who say they became ill after an aerial herbicide spraying last fall are pushing state lawmakers to put tighter rules in place for the operations.

A large fire yesterday destroyed a Texas fertilizer storage facility that kept ammonium nitrate, the chemical that sparked a deadly explosion last year in West, Texas.

Michigan State University says a system for pulling drinkable water from manure is on route to commercial application this year.

American Indian tribes in North Dakota, facing a lack of quality drinking water on reservations, are calling for a seat on the State Water Commission.

The federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement is halting funding for six water supply projects in West Virginia, citing potential legal "irregularities" in the application process.

After a legal compromise last year settled a thorny dispute with Virginia, Tesla Motors Inc. plans to open its first electric car dealership in the state near Washington Dulles International Airport.

Honda Motor Co.'s 2014 gas-electric hybrid Accord failed to reach its window-sticker average in Consumer Reports' road test, though the car still rated as the most fuel-efficient U.S. midsize sedan.

Former EPA official Margo Oge has joined the board of the International Council on Clean Transportation, the nonprofit research organization announced yesterday.

Apple Inc. says most its sources of four minerals mined in Africa comply with standards designed to keep money out of the hands of militia groups.

North Dakota regulators are prodding energy companies to better secure their facilities after a natural gas condensate spill was linked to a wandering, grazing culprit.

The Oregon Department of State Lands, a key agency reviewing a coal export terminal proposal along the Columbia River, has agreed to delay its decision on the issue.

The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday asked federal judges to reconsider their decision striking down a rule requiring companies to disclose whether minerals in their products were mined in conflict-ridden central Africa.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation will spend as much as $13.5 million on new bus routes and other transit improvements to settle a civil rights and environmental lawsuit over a costly Milwaukee highway project.

U.S. EPA yesterday said it will appeal a federal district court ruling that sent its controversial water transfer rule back to the agency for reconsideration.

A federal environmental impact statement has found that a proposed launch pad for private rockets at the southernmost tip of Texas would not significantly threaten protected species.

Maryland officials hailed a state circuit court ruling Wednesday as a "victory for the health of the Chesapeake Bay" after a judge rejected claims that restrictions on catching menhaden were unconstitutional.

The world is getting close to a sixth great extinction as species disappear at least 1,000 times faster than they did before humans evolved, according to a new study.

California's State Water Resources Control Board has ordered more than 2,600 water agencies and users to stop pumping water from streams in the Sacramento Valley as drought continues to plague the area.

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