California’s Central Valley yields billions of dollars’ worth of fruits and vegetables each year, but its aquifers are overused and polluted. With brown, silty streams pouring from their kitchen sinks, thousands of farmworkers and residents have become habitual buyers and users of bottled water.
Read moreNearly every day for four years, members of a Texas environmental group fanned out on their kayaks around a bay collecting plastic pellets that had washed ashore after being discharged from a factory. Their efforts paid off as the plant owner has agreed to pay a $50 million settlement to resolve Clean Water Act litigation.
Read morePregnant women exposed to air pollution have an increased risk of miscarriage in the first trimester, according to new research released Monday.
Read moreMore than 50 faculty members at a prominent Texas university on Wednesday urged officials involved with a program that raises millions of dollars in oil and gas revenue for higher education to significantly reduce oilfield methane pollution.
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The source of large blots of oil staining more than 130 beaches in northeastern Brazil remained a mystery Tuesday despite President Jair Bolsonaro’s assertions they came from outside the country and were possibly the work of criminals.
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Environmentalists warned the D.C. Circuit on Monday that air quality will suffer across the country if the court does not stop the Trump administration from giving states permitting power for power plants and refineries.
Read moreJustice Department attorneys are pressing cruise giant Carnival to turn over more information on its pollution-control efforts in the wake of the company’s $20 million fine for violating probation in an illegal waste dumping case.
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Continuing its fixation with the Golden State, the Trump administration has accused San Francisco of soiling city streets and beaches with raw sewage and a bevy of other Clean Water Act violations.
Read moreA planned year-long study of methane emissions in the booming West Texas oil patch aims to paint a clearer picture of just how much of the climate change-causing pollutant is escaping from oil and gas sites.
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The D.C. Circuit struck down an Environmental Protection Agency rule Tuesday that set loose guidelines for monitoring the amount of air pollution that travels across state lines.
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Targeting emissions that drift across state lines, the Sierra Club added another lawsuit Monday to the pile of cases the Environmental Protection Agency under President Donald Trump is battling in federal court.
Read moreEngaged in environmental battles with the Trump administration on multiple fronts, California Governor Gavin Newsom angered some allies on Friday by vetoing a bill aimed at blunting federal rollbacks of clean air and endangered species regulations in the state.
Read moreTwo days after threatening to pull highway funding from California over “chronic” smog, the Trump administration on Thursday said the Golden State is also falling short of federal water-quality standards, due in part to a “homelessness crisis.”
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Amid a growing dispute over climate change and vehicle emissions standards, the Trump administration on Tuesday threatened to withhold highway funding and other federal grants from California over its “chronic air quality problems.”
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California will become the first state to require smog testing on heavy-duty diesel trucks and tractor-trailers under legislation signed Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Read moreFinding the rule falls short of standards set out in a federal clean air law, the D.C. Circuit on Friday stuck down an Environmental Protection Agency regulation that requires states to lower emissions that can flow across state lines and hurt the air quality of their neighbors downwind.
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High levels of toxic pollutants – including ones banned decades ago – have been observed in the skin and blubber of bottlenose dolphins living in the English Channel, according to a new study.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit dismissed the Center for Biological Diversity et al.’s lawsuit against the U.S. EPA for lack of standing, as the group’s members cannot show they suffered an injury in fact from pollution in the Gulf of Mexico.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit on Wednesday declined nine environmental groups’ request to review the EPA’s two-year postponement of compliance dates for waste streams from power plants.
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