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Detroit's poor and minority populations face greater health and environmental risks than other communities because of their proximity to polluting industrial facilities, a recent Sierra Club report has found. The…

SAN FRANCISCO -- A Missouri hog farmer who stopped giving antibiotics to his animals after he was gored by a boar is being honored by the Natural Resources Defense Council…

Some of the wealthiest universities in the world have found themselves in a dilemma: As climate change awareness and activism grow, universities must reconcile that with their oil, gas and…

Home Depot has agreed to pay $8 million to settle a suit alleging that it violated regional air quality standards. Fifteen of the home improvement chain's stores sold tens of…

In a move to cut costs and increase returns, mining company Rio Tinto Ltd. intends to sell off several coal mines in Australia. The reports of sales come months after…

A group of 200 Texas residents have banded together to fight the construction of a natural gas power plant. El Paso Electric Co. plans to construct a natural gas power…

Californians could see $1.5 billion in refunds from inflated electricity prices they paid during the state's 2000 energy crisis, state officials said yesterday in response to a new pair of…

The federal judge overseeing the BP PLC Gulf of Mexico spill trial admonished Halliburton Co. lawyers yesterday for delays in revealing possible evidence, saying they had "become a problem now."…

The Ecuadorean judge who issued a $18.2 billion verdict against Chevron Corp. for environmental damages yesterday denied allegations that he had taken bribes from the company. A fellow judge who…

A man accused by prosecutors of planning the killing of two land activists in the Amazon was acquitted yesterday. A jury in Brazil found that there was not enough evidence…

The country's largest chicken processor will pay a nearly $4 million penalty after accidental releases of a poisonous gas used in refrigeration caused several injuries and one fatality, the Department…

A missing tortoise has been discovered in the Iowa museum it disappeared from just days earlier. A visitor yesterday found the 18-pound African leopard tortoise, Cashew, in an elevator at…

The Montana Senate yesterday approved a controversial proposal that would limit where bison can be moved and shrink herd size. The bill, which passed by a 30-19 vote, specifically targets…

The Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating the killing of a Mexican wolf by a federal employee in January, officials confirmed yesterday. The male employee of the Agriculture Department's Wildlife…

MOSS LANDING, Calif. -- The researchers couldn't bear to watch as an underwater robot prepared to extract a long strand of eelgrass stuck in a sensor 3,000 feet below Monterey…

Today's third anniversary of the Upper Big Branch mine explosion that killed 29 West Virginia miners is prompting Democratic lawmakers to call for new mine safety laws. The issue has…

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy released draft legislation yesterday to regulate coal ash disposal and prevent a hazardous materials designation from U.S. EPA. The…

A decade-in-the-making offshore wind project that has found its pursuit of federal financing assistance caught in the crossfire of House Republicans received some backup today from its home-state congressional delegation.…

Federal employees, already working under a pay freeze and reduced budgets, face threats to their retirement after reports emerged today that President Obama plans to include a new inflation formula…

In the new world of sequestration, there are two ways to read the vandalism that briefly took a Civil War-era cannon off the battlefield last week at Missionary Ridge in…

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