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One of Delaware's oldest Superfund sites will get new federally supervised pollution investigations as part of a settlement with the site's owner.

Law firms nationwide are seeking plaintiffs for "mass tort" legal actions against Monsanto Co. over claims that its Roundup herbicide has caused cancer in people exposed to it.

Rafting conservationists are aiming to create a "street view" of America's rivers, streams and lakes in order to help save the nation's waterways.

U.S. EPA determined that water delivered in tanks to the Navajo Nation following last month's massive wastewater spill at a Colorado mine is clean enough for livestock and irrigation.

Corporations and government bodies will be adding hundreds more electric vehicles and charging stations to their fleets in California.

U.S. regulators anticipate receiving a proposed fix this week for some of the diesel Volkswagen vehicles involved in the company's emissions-testing scandal.

Widespread use of high-tech traffic management systems is likely decades away in the United States, hampered by a lack of money, the need to develop technical standards and a potential squeeze on wireless spectrum space, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.

With the Obama administration under growing political pressure over its contentious renewable fuel standard, U.S. EPA's inspector general announced plans yesterday to study the agency's implementation of the program.

A natural gas pipeline exploded early this morning in southern Texas, causing a large fire that closed local schools and drove some residents from their homes.

Environmental groups and a Louisiana shipping company have signed off on a plan to reduce coal and petroleum coke debris dumps into the Mississippi River.

A conservative legal group is asking the Supreme Court to weigh the constitutionality of Colorado's renewable energy standard after a lower court upheld the state's program.

The United States and Cuba have agreed to work together to protect the marine life in the waters between the two countries, the first major environmental pact since President Obama relaxed diplomatic restrictions with the island nation.

SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. intends to sue the California Coastal Commission for its decision to ban the theme park from breeding captive killer whales.

Alaska is taking its fight against environmental protections for the Tongass National Forest to the Supreme Court.

Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) broke with much of her party yesterday by saying that humans should work to reduce their contribution to climate change.

Environmental activists at NextGen Climate yesterday unveiled the group's latest step in its bid to push presidential primary contenders to embrace renewable energy policies, launching a new million-dollar ad campaign in New Hampshire and Iowa.

Contenders in the race to succeed term-limited Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) took aim last night at Republican Sen. David Vitter, criticizing the GOP front-runner as a Washington, D.C., insider in the final debate to feature all four major candidates before the Oct. 24 election.

The federal government should do more to encourage the commercial deployment of carbon capture and sequestration technologies to address climate change, the Brookings Institution said in a report released today.