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Indian officials yesterday said they shut down a Coca-Cola Co. bottling plant because it's using too much groundwater and releasing too many pollutants.

A U.N. agency yesterday said Australia had made progress protecting the Great Barrier Reef and put off a contentious decision until next year on whether to list the site as in danger.

Uncertainty hovers over control of Iraq's largest oil refinery, with government officials claiming yesterday they'd repelled a rebel attack and reports surfacing of black rebel flags flying over parts of the Baiji complex.

The federal judge overseeing the bankruptcy case of Freedom Industries Inc., the company that spilled a coal-cleaning chemical into the Charleston, W.Va.-area drinking water supply earlier this year, says local residents should file claims against the company in his court if they want to be compensated for the incident.

City officials decided yesterday they will shut down drinking water wells in Albuquerque, N.M., if tests turn up any trace of contamination from a fuel spill at Kirtland Air Force Base.

A recent clinical trial has suggested that compounds in vegetables like broccoli and kale may cause cells to purge themselves of certain air pollutants.

New York lawmakers are down to the wire on a pending chemical ban bill that must reach the state Senate floor today or die without a vote.

The nation's fourth largest ethanol producer today appointed a former Valero Energy Corp. executive to its board of directors.

Scientists affiliated with two companies responsible for the massive Passaic River Superfund site in New Jersey may turn to bacteria to clean up the harmful chemicals that remain there.

Four remote-controlled gliders will coast through Gulf of Mexico waters this week to measure oxygen and gather data on ocean health, scientists say.

State and federal officials yesterday awarded $3.7 million in grants to projects aimed at curbing stormwater pollution in the Chesapeake Bay region.

The Department of Energy announced $100 million yesterday for 32 projects aimed at advancing basic research for clean energy "grand challenges" led by teams of the nation's leading scientists.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today for only the second time approved a liquefied natural gas terminal slated to export domestic gas from the lower 48 states, this time in Louisiana.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission adopted a new policy today for determining returns on equity for transmission projects, with commissioners citing the need to expand the grid to meet reliability challenges including coal plant retirements and a surge of renewables.

A federal court sentenced a 44-year-old man from Diamondhead, Miss., to three years in federal prison for defrauding BP PLC out of $18,000 in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The passenger pigeon was the world's most abundant bird species through the 18th and 19th centuries. Then hunting and deforestation reduced the population to a single famous survivor named Martha that finally died at the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914.

New Zealand yesterday rejected a proposed offshore iron ore mine, citing environmental concerns.

A crop scientist was named the 2014 recipient of the World Food Prize yesterday for his work creating hundreds of varieties of hearty crop species that can grow in difficult growing conditions and different climates around the world.

The black market value of the tusks that made Satao a tourist favorite cut short the life of one of Kenya's most adored elephants.

A leading bird conservation group today filed a federal lawsuit against the Obama administration challenging a rule for wind and other energy projects that permits injuring, killing or disturbing bald eagles for up to 30 years.

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