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Hannah Pingree was so alarmed when she learned she had dangerously high levels of mercury, arsenic and other toxic chemicals in her body that she took her case to the Maine state legislature and challenged ...

Although firefighters have declared 98 percent containment on the more than 2,000 wildfires sparked by lightning in June, smoke from the remaining 27 active fires returned today to parts of the Bay Area.

A northern Idaho highway district, utility and a construction company paid nearly $15,000 to settle allegations they violated the federal Clean Water Act by failing to protect waters downstream from a ...

Environmentalists are challenging the state's approval of a $1.8 billion coal-fired power plant in southwest Virginia.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began testing the air inside several Oakland homes, a business and a day care center Friday that were located near the former home of Lane Metal Finishers, an abandoned ...

Pesticides can help keep your home free of insects, rodents and other unwanted visitors, but exposure to these products can pose serious health risks.

BUFFALO Governor Paterson has signed a new brownfields program into law. During a visit to Buffalo Wednesday, Paterson signed legislation to clean up the state's mass of contaminated former industrial sites.

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency told the White House in December that high levels of manmade heat-trapping gases are causing global warming and endanger the American people, Sen.

Eleven potential drinking water contaminants will not be regulated, the Environmental Protection Agency determined Thursday.

Just when it looked like the Yazoo Backwater Project was dead, Mississippi's senators are trying to bring it back from the brink.

A Laurel Springs man and his company pleaded guilty Wednesday to bid-rigging, fraud and tax charges, officials said.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008 A regulatory blueprint for nanotech oversight PR Newswire WASHINGTON, July 23, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Former EPA Official Highlights Shortcomings of Current Federal ...

A former U.S. official has contradicted claims that a decision to block California's stringent emissions plan was not influenced by the White House.

Extracts: Political appointees at the Department of Labor are moving with unusual speed to push through in the final months of the Bush administration a rule making it tougher to regulate workers' on-the-job ...

The employer of a pregnant teenager who died of heat stroke after pruning grapevines for nine hours in hot weather was hit Wednesday with the highest fine ever issued to a California farming operation.

Environmental groups and several states say they have a won court battle over a federal rule that allowed some dumping of ballast contaminated with invasive species by large commercial ships in coastal ports ...

ALBANY - Gov. David Paterson is scheduled to sign legislation this afternoon that will provide more incentives to clean up polluted sites, cap tax credits for redevelopment to limit the state's liability and ...

Read the full story in the Washington Post. Climate change will pose "substantial" threats to human health in the coming decades, the Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday - issuing its warnings about ...

The Environmental Protection Agency told the Bush administration that by law California should be able to set air-quality standards that were tougher than federal law, but President Bush rejected the advice and ...

"DRINK AT YOUR OWN RISK". THAT IS WHAT THE EPA IS ADVISING AFTER DRINKING WATER TESTED POSITIVE FOR P-C-B's IN SEVERAL HUDSON RIVER COMMUNITIES INCLUDING IN POUGHKEEPSIE, PORT EWEN AND RHINEBECK.