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The North Carolina General Assembly bill responding to this year's coal ash spill, which sent more than 30,000 tons of waste into the Dan River, will become law on Sept. 19.

California voters by a nearly 2-1 margin support a $7.5 billion ballot measure that would fund water projects in the drought-stricken state, a poll released today showed.

Regulations cost the economy $2.028 trillion in 2012, with environmental regulations making up about 16 percent of the total, according to a report released today by the National Association of Manufacturers.

California wants to keep control over its climate programs as it complies with U.S. EPA's demand to reduce carbon emissions from existing power plants, Golden State officials said yesterday.

With many Western lawmakers clamoring for expanding reservoirs amid an entrenched drought, a government watchdog issued a report yesterday showing farmers and ranchers still owe on their tab for dams and reservoir projects done decades ago.

A federal judge yesterday disqualified former U.S. EPA air chief Jeff Holmstead as an expert witness backing a Missouri power plant in an agency enforcement lawsuit.

U.S. EPA chief Gina McCarthy's proposal to resolve a long-standing conflict with the inspector general's office isn't good enough and her agency is still blocking access to information, EPA's independent watchdog told House lawmakers today.

Is the opening of Poet-DSM's Project Liberty, the country's first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant, a game-changer for the industry? During today's OnPoint, Rob Walther, director of federal affairs at Poet, discusses the cost-competitiveness of cellulosic ethanol and the existing market challenges for the fuel, following last week's ribbon cutting at the Iowa facility. Walther also explains why he believes the industry continues to need strong support through the renewable fuel standard for continued growth.

One of the most powerful earthquakes yet at Iceland's Bárðarbunga volcano was registered yesterday as the aviation industry remains wary of a potential repeat of the 2010 eruption that grounded air traffic throughout Europe.

Western Australia's Environmental Protection Authority officials erred on the side of "a high degree of scientific uncertainty" today, declining to move forward with a shark cull designed to protect beachgoers based on its potential impact on protected great whites.

Officials and politicians in Mexico are turning polluted waters into political battles.

A Peruvian activist was found dead deep in a remote region of the Amazon jungle he was dedicated to protecting from illegal loggers.

The gravesite of a famed Montana mountain man was tagged with graffiti Tuesday night.

Nevada lawmakers are working to pass a $1.3 billion incentive package to bring Tesla Motors Inc.'s new battery factory into the state, and they face little opposition.

U.S. EPA is working to update its herbicide labels to warn growers of potential weed resistance, but the onus remains on farmers and herbicide manufacturers to look out for aggressive plant invaders, the top pesticide regulator in the country said yesterday.

A Coast Guard commander said the force and other responders don't have what they need to respond adequately to a "heavy oil" spill on the Great Lakes.

U.S. EPA has proposed designating 14 areas in six states as out of compliance with the 2012 pollution standard for airborne fine particulates as the agency works toward an end-of-year listing deadline.

Years of pesticide regulation have helped drive down dangers to human health, but the chemicals remain a persistent problem in the nation's rivers and streams, particularly in urban watersheds, according to a new federal study.

The Department of Transportation is launching an 18-month push for road-design changes and other steps to stem a mounting death toll among pedestrians and bicyclists.

Cleanup workers have entered one of the most radioactive rooms at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, where a worker was contaminated decades ago.

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