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A Michigan-based glass manufacturer will pay $70 million to upgrade pollution controls at plants in seven states to resolve alleged Clean Air Act violations, U.S. EPA said today.

Duke Energy Corp. has agreed to pay roughly $20 million to resolve complaints about pollution from coal ash dumps around North Carolina, the state Department of Environmental Quality said this morning.

Environmentalists are threatening legal action if U.S. EPA fails to finalize a new ozone standard that they believe protects public health.

An Oregon developer hoping to buy state parkland to build a golf course must pay about $450,000 more under conditions imposed by the Bureau of Land Management.

Residents living near Virginia's Assateague Island National Seashore are frustrated by a pair of federal proposals to slowly eliminate the local fishing industry and relocate an eroding beach a mile and a half north.

New Zealand will create one of the world's largest ocean sanctuaries in waters north of the island nation, Prime Minister John Key said yesterday at the United Nations.

The Fish and Wildlife Service today moved to extend Endangered Species Act protections to four southern Florida plants that are under threat from development and the effects of climate change.

The federal government is eyeing a revamp of its campsite-booking website Recreation.gov, one that could spark the development of new apps to make it easier for Americans to access the outdoors.

A coalition of Nevada counties and mining companies that last week filed the first lawsuit challenging federal protection plans for the greater sage grouse is now asking a federal court to block the Obama administration from implementing them in the state.

The fingerprints might be infallible, but the House clerk billed Rep. Bob Brady (D) $3.94 for the water glass he nabbed after Pope Francis drank a sip during his speech to Congress last week.

Democratic lawmakers in both the House and Senate announced legislation this morning meant to help mine workers obtain black lung disease benefits.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), likely soon to become House speaker, today predicted that the chamber will quickly pull off a feat that has eluded it for years: passage of long-term surface transportation funding legislation.

The House will vote on a stopgap spending bill tomorrow to keep the government funded through mid-December, a top Democrat said today.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush today will call for ending the ban on U.S. oil exports as well as easing restrictions on natural gas exports when he unveils his energy policy proposals at an event near Pittsburgh.

Because her two children have asthma, Julie Franks must monitor daily air quality indexes, keeping medicine at hand and administer allergy shots every week.

A long-fought battle over new limits on the amount of toxic metals that can flow from coal-fired power plants into U.S. waterways is slated to come to an end tomorrow, but whether the rule's release will truly halt the fight will depend on what the final regulation looks like.

Federal judges today denied environmentalists' challenge to a 600-mile pipeline carrying oil sands crude from Illinois to Oklahoma.

DENVER -- A federal plan prohibiting "take" of Utah prairie dogs did not run afoul of the U.S. Constitution, an attorney for the Fish and Wildlife Service told the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday in a case that could have major consequences for the nation's threatened and endangered wildlife.

Petroleum refineries will be forced to curb toxic air emissions and beef up monitoring under a rule finalized today by U.S. EPA.

Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee today unveiled a revised version of a comprehensive energy package that's up for a vote in the lower chamber tomorrow after weeks of trying to reach a compromise with Democrats.

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