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Industry groups -- which pushed unsuccessfully to delay a public comment period into next year -- have told U.S. EPA that imposing new safety requirements on chemical facilities would present a burden to the industry and harm businesses.

While the federal government's chemical assessment programs are "fragmented and overlapping," they are not "duplicative," a Government Accountability Office report has found.

An environmental cleanup company forced to resign by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control is accusing state officials of dismissing reports of possible leaks from a hazardous waste dump into a lake used for drinking water.

Leaky, broken and aging pipes around the United States lose billions of gallons of drinking water each day, according to a new study by the Center for Neighborhood Technology in Chicago.

Oil and gas wells are emitting cancer-causing chemicals into the air, according to a new study that provides the fullest accounting to date of air emissions at hydraulic fracturing sites.

The oil industry expressed concerns this week about a U.S. EPA proposal to stem toxic refinery emissions.

Congressional districts represented by Democrats were more likely to receive transportation grants from the federal government last month, records show.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson stepped up security at federal buildings this week following the shooting at Canada's Parliament last week and domestic terror threats, but whether the little-known agency watching the doors is up to the task has been routinely questioned in recent years.

Office of the Federal Register Director Charley Barth is leaving his post for a new gig.

A U.S. EPA enforcement agent was attacked in Atlanta last week by two men who stole her agency vehicle.

Most residents in the eastern Ohio town of Bloomingdale have returned to their homes after a hydraulic fracturing well exploded earlier this week, leaking natural gas and methane into the air.

Nuclear regulators are looking into the cause of a uranium hexafluoride leak Sunday at an Illinois plant that is experiencing a labor dispute.

TransCanada Corp. this morning filed formal application documents for a new $12 billion pipeline system to carry crude oil from the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan to refineries in the country's east.

Plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil Corp. are requesting that the company make documents related to its case public in a motion filed in federal court this week.

U.S. EPA is eager to begin putting in place a regulatory regime addressing air pollution that crosses state borders after a favorable court ruling, the agency's air chief said yesterday.

The Columbia Law School is calling on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to consider climate change and sea-level rise in environmental reviews of two liquefied natural gas terminals in Louisiana and Maine.

The first new frog species found in the Northeast in more than a century was discovered in the Big Apple.

A plan to create one of the world's largest marine reserves in Antarctica has collapsed for the fourth time.

The Fish and Wildlife Service yesterday proposed measures that would ratchet up monitoring of trade in four turtle species due to rising demand for their flesh as food and traditional medicine in Asia.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration unveiled a draft plan yesterday for spending penalties flowing from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

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