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Sworn in this year, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is already speedily fulfilling his campaign promise to open his country's economic floodgates by clearing away environmental regulation that industry has decried for years.

China plans to reduce fertilizer and pesticide use in all provinces by 2020, said government officials.

Animal rights activists showed up in force in Trenton, N.J., yesterday to protest the annual black bear hunt.

A mandatory evacuation order for homes threatened by a massive sinkhole in Assumption Parish, La., two years ago has been eased for some residents, said the Assumption Parish Police Jury yesterday.

Los Angeles County has been using stormwater runoff to supplement its drinking water supply.

An oil spill occurred in the Corpus Christi Ship Channel in Texas early yesterday.

Environmental groups yesterday said Duke Energy Corp. is dumping dangerous chemicals from a coal ash pond associated with its retired Buck power plant, polluting the Yadkin River in North Carolina.

U.S. EPA spent more than $11 billion on low-interest loans and other efforts to help communities upgrade drinking water infrastructure in the last four years, but the agency can't say for sure that money has improved public health, according to a report released today by the EPA inspector general.

Private driving company Uber has been valued at more than $40 billion after closing a $1.2 billion round of financing yesterday.

The Internet has democratized public comment periods for new government regulations but also allowed federal agencies to track the displeased reactions people have to proposed rules.

One of U.S. EPA chief Gina McCarthy's top aides will soon be leaving her post for an executive gig in Montgomery County, Md.

Seven Greenpeace activists have agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor criminal trespassing charges for their role in an eye-catching protest earlier this year at the headquarters of Procter & Gamble Co.

Two workers injured in an explosion at an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico have sued two companies linked to the site.

Tommy, a chimpanzee, will remain with his owner after he was denied yesterday "legal personhood" by a New York appeals court.

U.S. EPA argued to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans yesterday in a bid to throw out an order requiring it to decide whether it needs to develop regulations to prevent a flow of pollutants from the Mississippi River.

Henry Kijanka, the plant manager at an aluminum dross recycling plant on Detroit's west side, was arrested on charges of contempt of court Nov. 24 after an investigation by the Michigan Attorney General's Office found HD Industries, which operates the plant, had disregarded emissions standards at the plant and failed to file an operating permit with the state.

Wisconsin officials are shutting down the state's wolf hunt today after hunters exceeded the set quota.

Wyoming this week appealed a federal judge's decision to reinstate federal endangered species protections for wolves in the state while Gov. Matt Mead (R) presses Congress for legislative action that would bypass the courts.

Three years ago, Robert Kelton and Bruce Brande boxed up and shipped dozens of ocean rocks covered in brightly colored coral and allegedly worth more than $4,000.

The American Petroleum Institute is mulling a new ad campaign to push the Obama administration to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline's trans-boundary crossing from Canada, the group said today.

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