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India has started building its first "smart city," complete with modern underground infrastructure that would bring drinking water, automated waste collection and power supply to millions of Indians.

Indiana officials continue to vilify U.S. EPA's efforts to tighten ozone standards, with the state Senate set to vote this week on a resolution condemning the crack down on smog-forming pollution.

Texas' state Senate voted yesterday to shut down a renewable energy program that had far exceeded its production goals.

Companies could be required to report emissions of a solvent linked to cancer if a proposed rule by U.S. EPA is finalized.

San Diego County, Santa Barbara and other California cities are pushing ahead with desalination plans as the state's drought worsens.

Greenhouse gas emissions in the United States rose slightly between 2012 and 2013 due to continued economic growth and a limited resurgence in coal-fired power generation, according to an annual inventory released today by U.S. EPA.

Four chemical compounds that are commonly found in low concentrations in both indoor and outdoor air could be causing a host of adverse health effects, according to a new study from researchers in Colorado.

An Amtrak train derailed shortly after leaving the station in Portland, Maine, but no one was hurt in the incident.

Organic food sales broke a record in 2014, rising more than 11 percent over the previous year, the Organic Trade Association announced today.

The Bureau of Land Management's top official in charge of managing wild horses and burros this week moved to a different post within BLM.

Joel Spira, a physicist who invented the first lighting dimmer designed to be used in private homes, died April 8 in Coopersburg, Pa.

Plans to upgrade a natural gas-fired power plant in Tempe, Ariz., have attracted the ire of the Sierra Club, which filed a 57-page critique of the project with air regulators this week.

Utilities should re-establish their principle service for customers as "providers of reliability" instead of energy, the CEO of First Solar Inc. said yesterday.

A federal judge appeared skeptical of claims in court yesterday that U.S. EPA had accurately assessed a pesticide's risk to bees when it approved the chemical.

Federal judges have ruled that an Army Corps of Engineers determination that a wetland qualifies for Clean Water Act protections may be challenged in court, establishing a split between appellate courts that could reach the Supreme Court.

Twitter messages can be used to create real-time maps of flooding, according to a recent study from two Dutch organizations.

SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment faces its third class-action lawsuit in as many weeks just as the company launches a media blitz aimed at couteracting negative publicity sinking company revenues.

Pacific Northwest residents could survive a powerful tsunami by walking to safety, albeit briskly, according to a new study.

Sailors with plenty of cash can sign up for an extreme yacht race from New York City to Victoria, British Columbia, via the Arctic.

The World Trade Organization sided with Mexico yesterday in a dispute about whether fishing captains can self-certify that dolphins are not hurt when they catch tuna.

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