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Residents in Chicago have filed a class-action lawsuit against the city, claiming their drinking water has seen "elevated and unsafe" levels of lead contamination for years due to risky construction projects.

Critics of aquaculture recently filed a lawsuit challenging the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's authority to regulate offshore fish farms in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Fish and Wildlife Service will study the effects of two common weed killers on endangered species, as part of a legal settlement with the Center for Biological Diversity.

Decades of work on the largest ecosystem restoration ever tried in Florida's Everglades National Park is beginning to pay off as freshwater flow starts returning to parts of the wetland.

A proposed underground copper and silver mine in northwestern Montana took a step toward approval today, a week after federal and state officials cleared the way for another controversial mine just miles away.

Federal officials finalized a restoration plan for the Gulf of Mexico today, laying out a framework for repairing the damage done in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

The Obama administration today released a revised policy on how federal regulators can work with states to protect endangered species.

Three congressmen are calling for an investigation of Shell Oil Co., which they say told the public not to worry about climate change while the company privately prepared for rising sea levels.

Top Democrats are seeking to keep attention focused on the Flint, Mich., drinking water crisis, even as there is no clear path for Congress approving hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid that the city says it needs.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) yesterday signed on to lead a campaign to increase property taxes in the San Francisco Bay Area for environmental improvements.

John Hanger, who was both a critic and promoter of shale drilling as an environmental regulator and political candidate, is leaving Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf's (D) administration.

Conservation advocates are beginning to smell something rotten in the government's approach to compost.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz launched a new campaign ad in Nevada yesterday that touts his support for transferring federal public lands to state control while accusing GOP presidential primary front-runner Donald Trump of planning to "keep big government in charge."

As Washington, D.C., pays its respects to Justice Antonin Scalia, whose body lies in repose at the Supreme Court today, political parties continue to trade blows over who should appoint a replacement for the Supreme Court's conservative champion.

The Interior Department yesterday bestowed national landmark status on the Great Lakes' last operating coal-fired ferry.

U.S. EPA plans to put fresh emphasis on cutting toxic air emissions from hazardous waste producers as well as keeping industrial pollutants out of lakes and waterways under its latest three-year cycle of national enforcement initiatives.

In 1989, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia -- then a recent arrival on the bench -- delivered an emphatic endorsement of a court practice of deferring to agencies' expertise.

When it comes to the Clean Power Plan, the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia may have dramatically elevated a lower court's importance -- at least in the short term.

Are regulators wasting energy by continuing to focus on the nuances of U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan, following the Supreme Court's stay of the rule? During today's OnPoint, Travis Kavulla, president of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and a member of the Montana Public Service Commission, explains why he believes regulators should shift their focus to broader conversations on carbon allowance trading and carbon price risk modeling. He also discusses the existing challenges to giving utilities market certainty.

Colombia's Constitutional Court ruled against a legal loophole that allows oil, gas and mining operations in the country's páramos, an alpine tundra ecosystem that supplies more than 70 percent of the country's population with water.

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