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Mayors press for federal focus on Miss. River
Mayors from communities along the Mississippi River said Thursday that they would work with federal lawmakers to sharpen the national focus on the ...
Both sides agree on tough new fracking standards
Some of the nation's biggest oil and gas companies have made peace with environmentalists, agreeing to a voluntary set of tough new standards for ...
Court sides with timber industry in runoff dispute
The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with timber interests in a dispute over the regulation of runoff from logging roads in western forests. In a 7-1 ...
Tenn. university proposes fracking on its own land
The University of Tennessee wants to allow hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas on a state-owned tract of rolling woodland and use the revenue ...
Report says NC base toxic water may date to 1948
Drinking water contamination at North Carolina's sprawling Camp Lejeune military base could date to 1948, five years earlier than researchers had ...
ADB: In Asia, wealth buys access to clean water
Ninety-one percent of people living in Asia have improved access to clean water, a remarkable achievement over the last two decades in the world's ...
China wrestles with cost of cleaner environment
Facing public outrage over smog-choked cities and filthy rivers, China's leaders are promising to clean up the country's neglected environment — a ...
America's new love: Water
It wasn't too long ago that America had a love affair with soda. Now, an old flame has the country's heart. As New York City grapples with the ...
Wisconsin Assembly passes sweeping mining bill
Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly approved a polarizing mining bill Thursday and sent the measure to Gov. Scott Walker for his signature, ...
Feds look to ship Wash. radioactive waste to NM
Removing radioactive waste from underground tanks at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site has proven to be technologically vexing for years, ...
Power failure blamed in New Orleans water issues
Taps in New Orleans briefly went dry Sunday after a boiler's heating flame went out of control in the immense steam generator that powers pumps for ...
AP: NY fracking held as Cuomo, RFK Jr. talk health
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo came as close as he ever has to approving fracking last month, laying out a limited drilling plan for as many as 40 gas ...
Shell suspends drilling for Arctic Ocean in 2013
An effort to give the United States a new source of domestic oil and refill the trans-Alaska pipeline took a hit Wednesday when Royal Dutch Shell PLC ...
Coral comeback: Reef 'seeding' in the Caribbean
Mats of algae and seaweed have shrouded the once thick coral in shallow reefs off Jamaica's north coast. Warm ocean waters have bleached out the ...
Researchers: Giant goldfish threatens Lake Tahoe
Giant goldfish could be threatening the ecology of Lake Tahoe on the California-Nevada border. Biologists with the University of Nevada, Reno say ...
6 leaking tanks are Hanford nuke site's latest woe
Federal and state officials say six underground tanks holding a brew of radioactive and toxic waste are leaking at the country's most contaminated ...
Alaska state senator proposes bounty on sea otters
An Alaska state senator is proposing a bounty on sea otters, the cute little marine mammals often seen by tourists swimming on their backs between ...
Chinese dare officials to swim in polluted rivers
A Chinese businessman angry about a filthy river made an equally dirty dare: He'll give an environmental official about $32,000 just for swimming in ...
Agency checks water after body found in hotel tank
British tourist Michael Baugh and his wife said water had only dribbled out of the taps at the downtown Cecil Hotel for days. On Tuesday, after ...
Hamas accuses Egypt of flooding Gaza tunnels
The Hamas rulers of Gaza and local smugglers on Tuesday accused Egypt of flooding cross-border tunnels with sewage water in order to halt a thriving ...
Study: Fish in drug-tainted water suffer reaction
What happens to fish that swim in waters tainted by traces of drugs that people take? When it's an anti-anxiety drug, they become hyper, anti-social ...
Solar industry grapples with hazardous wastes
Homeowners on the hunt for sparkling solar panels are lured by ads filled with images of pristine landscapes and bright sunshine, and words about the ...
China says 14 guilty of pollution protest violence
Fourteen people pleaded guilty to encouraging a riot in eastern China last year in which the local Communist Party chief was stripped half-naked in ...
The Dutch monarchy - some facts and quirks
The Netherlands' Queen Beatrix says she will abdicate her throne in April to make way for her eldest son, Crown Prince Willem-Alexander. Here are some ...
Dolphin dies amid NY canal's industrial pollution
Marine experts say a dolphin seen shaking black gunk from its snout after wandering into a polluted canal in New York may well have been ill before ...