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Before there was lead in the water in Flint, Mich., eastern Michiganders were fighting hazardous waste wells near homes. Before that, community leaders were battling air emissions from a wood-burning power plant wafting into poor, minority neighborhoods.

The Burns Paiute Tribe has asked the federal government to block the travel of armed activists to and from a federal wildlife preserve they are occupying in rural Oregon.

HINES, Ore. -- A 54-year-old Oregon man was arrested here yesterday after saying he planned to join the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and "help with killing federal agents," according to the Harney County Sheriff's Office.

Energy experts are mining a major Supreme Court decision issued yesterday for clues about what it could mean for another high-stakes energy market case pending before the justices.

HINES, Ore. -- A collapsed roof at the former Hines Lumber Co. timber mill symbolizes Harney County's hard fall from its logging heyday.

Susan Hedman, head of U.S. EPA's Chicago-based regional office, worked hard and demanded the same from her staff. But she's now on her way out, caught up in the city of Flint, Mich.'s ongoing drinking water crisis.

For more than 70 years, Florida manatees have wintered in the warm water pouring out of power plants. Such industrial discharges have become crucial to the imperiled species’ recovery. This month, the Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to downlist the gentle giants under the Endangered Species Act, but the agency has yet to tackle their biggest threat -- the loss of those power plant hot tubs.

How is the rail industry working to improve the safety of the transport of flammable materials, including crude oil? During today's OnPoint, Ed Hamberger, CEO of the Association of American Railroads, discusses the details of his organization's first State of the Industry Report.

Canada's government environmental watchdog said yesterday that authorities were still allowing pesticides linked to bee deaths to be used long term without having proper information on them.

The former CEO of World Sailing said he was canned for trying to change the venue for Olympic sailing from Rio de Janeiro's polluted Guanabara Bay.

German auto supplier Robert Bosch GmbH is launching an investigation to determine whether any of its employees acted to rig emissions tests.

Ohio officials knew in October that residents of a small town were drinking water containing high levels of lead but did not warn the public, records show.

California regulators yesterday sued a natural gas utility that is working to stop a monthslong methane leak as state agencies issued new rules to prevent future leaks.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board's information security system needs additional safeguards to protect it from intrusion, U.S. EPA's Office of Inspector General said in a new report.

The federal government is slowly getting back on its feet.

General Electric Co. may stop selling founder Thomas Edison's most famous invention, the light bulb, to retail consumers as it shifts its focus to commercial lighting and advanced technology.

If there were a conspiracy about climate change, it would have been revealed in three years and nine months, according to a formula developed by a British scientist, while a popular rapper is picking fights with Twitter's most famous scientist about the shape of the Earth.

The coal industry should barter for an end to the Obama administration's carbon rules for power plants by throwing their weight behind a carbon tax, a libertarian think tank argued in a report released today.

Prosecutors in Los Angeles County are moving to oust an area mayor from a regional water board, arguing that his presence in both positions represents a conflict of interest.

A U.S. appeals court yesterday ruled to uphold a federal permit that allows government officials to shoot down migratory birds flying near New York City airports, a decision that overlooks an animal rights group's cries that the killings are excessive.

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