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Des Moines Water Works trustees unanimously voted yesterday in support of suing three counties in federal court over farm runoff.

Tennessee's environmental regulator sued the Tennessee Valley Authority over practices at the authority's coal-burning power plant in Gallatin.

U.S. EPA has found it unlikely that California's San Joaquin Valley will meet an April 5 deadline to clean up fine particulate matter air pollution.

Chemicals that New Brunswick salmon farmers use to fight sea lice may cause health issues, according to Canadian officials.

Activist investor Nelson Peltz has escalated his campaign against DuPont Co. by trying to add four directors to the company's board.

A new government report questions whether federal agencies have restricted their hiring so much that it has discouraged qualified applicants from securing jobs.

A consortium of 122 organizations in Knoxville, Tenn., has won a Department of Energy competition to house an innovation institute focused on advanced fiber-reinforced polymer composites, the White House announced today.

U.S. EPA's staff will be even smaller next week.

Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish Council denied a building permit to the controversial RAM Terminals LLC coal export facility.

Harold Hamm's lawyer said the Oklahoma oil tycoon's ex-wife is cashing her nearly billion -ollar alimony check, but whether or not it ends either former spouse's legal appeal of the divorce settlement amount remains to be seen.

A federal judge has released a convicted eco-terrorist from custody after conceding that the FBI did not turn over evidence to the defense at trial.

A federal judge has pushed back until June the trial of Kenneth Hardin, a Denver-area transit manager charged with taking bribes in connection with a federal contract decision.

Koalas whose paws were badly burned by the recent fires in southern Australia are getting protective mittens to help heal their wounds.

A retired wildlife biologist is proposing a plan to bring bighorn sheep back to an area where they once roamed in central Wyoming.

The National Audubon Society said preliminary data from their annual Christmas bird count show, once again, more snowy owl sightings than ever outside the Arctic.

The record-breaking mortality rate of the endangered Florida panther last year was even worse than previously thought, according to state and federal wildlife officials.

A Spanish renewable energy company is formally challenging the Bureau of Land Management's decision last year to reject a proposed commercial-scale solar power plant in the Southern California desert, saying the agency's decision will cause it and a subsidiary to "suffer substantial economic harm."

Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts' office announced today that Joel Leftwich will serve as staff director for the committee.

New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall will be the top Democrat on the Appropriations subcommittee that funds the Interior Department and U.S. EPA in the 114th Congress, committee ranking member Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) announced this morning.

It was a year ago today that a leak of foul-smelling 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, or MCHM, contaminated the water supply for 300,000 Charleston, W.Va.-area residents -- prompting health and safety fears and calls for regulatory reform that went largely unheeded at the federal level.

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