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A bill supported by the United Mine Workers union -- which would allow coal operators to reduce rescue teams, pay lower fines for not expediently reporting accidents and employ stronger rights to dispute safety citations -- passed the West Virginia House yesterday on a 92-4 vote.

As an air pollution scare worries residents of Portland, Ore., the head of the state Department of Environmental Quality abruptly resigned yesterday.

Florida state lawmakers scrapped an oil industry-backed bill that environmentalists say would have allowed hydraulic fracturing in the sensitive Everglades wetlands.

Members of the public largely opposed a plan by the Army Corps of Engineers to dump contaminated sludge from Cleveland's Cuyahoga River 9 miles offshore in Lake Erie.

Nearly 9 percent of Flint, Mich.'s water sites tested recently contained lead levels above federal limits, Gov. Rick Snyder (R) said yesterday.

NASA is funding an effort to create a quiet supersonic aircraft that could carry someone anywhere on Earth in six hours or less.

Two ethanol tankers were among 16 cars on a freight train that derailed yesterday in southwestern New York, forcing the evacuation of dozens of homes.

A Department of Agriculture panel has dismissed a complaint from a scientist who claimed he was suspended from his job because of his research on a controversial pesticide.

Royal Dutch Shell PLC faces its second lawsuit in five years over oil spills in the Niger Delta.

A satellite mapping system launched today called Global Land Analysis and Discovery (GLAD) will allow governments and environmentalists to monitor illegal tropical deforestation in almost real time.

Sections of Australia's Great Barrier Reef could face irreversible damage if the current El Niño weather oscillation does not ease this month, scientists said today.

From cleaning floors and repainting walls to simply organizing loose paperwork, employees at Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge have work to do before they can reopen after this year's standoff at the property.

Environmentalists, mayors and businesses in the Great Lakes region want presidential candidates to commit to funding restoration efforts aimed at curbing algal blooms, protecting drinking water and improving infrastructure.

Legislation that would allow states to oversee coal ash disposal sites ran into immediate objections this morning from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee's top Democrat, raising questions about whether the legislation has any future.

Legislation to hold foreign countries accountable for oil spill cleanup costs in the United States sailed through the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee this morning, passing by voice vote.

President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden today waded into a pair of contentious Democratic Senate primaries, endorsing former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and Florida Rep. Patrick Murphy in their respective bids.

For the last 40 years, a grand compromise has governed America's railways.

U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy today said the recent Supreme Court decision to stay the Clean Power Plan "in no way" signals it is not legally defensible and will not "in the end win."

U.S. EPA, already far behind in conducting legally required reviews of toxic air pollutants, will need years more to finish 20 that are now the subject of a lawsuit, a senior manager said in a recent court filing.

The long-serving executive director of the Southern California air pollution agency may lose his job Friday in a public vote.

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