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Cascade View Fruit and Cold Storage has agreed to pay more than $81,000 for violations under the Clean Air Act at a Yakima warehouse.

A view of downtown Los Angeles,California is seen on a smoggy afternoon, in 2006.

Six area environmental groups have written a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency complaining that the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority's lead-testing procedure violates federal regulations.

U.S. Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand on Monday met with about a half dozen state officials and a dozen representatives of five Hudson River municipalities to hash out concerns about next year's planned dredging of the ...

The EPA will publish its new rule governing Idaho field burning in the Federal Register Friday.

House and Senate committees have passed the Great Lakes Legacy Act, which would help fund programs to clean up the Great Lakes.

Most inhumanities start small, like the beginning of a tsunami, but then build, as they head toward inevitable and unstoppable destruction.

An environmental action group put out incorrect data that made South Carolina's beaches appear to be more polluted than they are, the state Department of Health and Environmental Control said today.

"The Tucson shovel-nosed snake is in trouble and needs the safety net provided by the Endangered Species Act to survive," said Noah Greenwald, science director at the Center for Biological Diversity.

California will sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for "wantonly" ignoring its duty to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from ships, aircraft, and construction and agricultural equipment, state ...

TOMAHAWK - The paper mill where an explosion killed three workers Tuesday was cited for safety violations three times in the past 10 years, according to a federal Web site.

The Occupational Safety and Health Bureau is fining an Ames company $4,500 for failure to take safety precautions after the April 14 death of a Minnesota man working at a feed mill construction site near ...

Apex Oil Co. is to clean up extensive contamination at its former refinery in Hartford, Ill., an effort that could cost $150 million, officials said Tuesday.

Two environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit against the Navy on Tuesday, saying a training program using underwater explosives poses an unacceptable hazard to marine life in Puget Sound, including ...

The music industry produces a lot of waste in the form of CDs and CD cases, most of which cannot not be recycled CDs and DVDs are made with a combination of various metals, petroleum-derived plastics, lacquers ...

Four Democratic senators on Tuesday called for Stephen Johnson to resign as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and asked Attorney General Michael Mukasey to begin an investigation into whether ...

"The Environmental Protection Agency has told its staff not to answer questions from the agency's internal watchdog, news reporters or the nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress, according to an internal ...

A text of the e-mail warning the Environmental Protection Agency's pollution enforcement officials not to talk directly to congressional investigators, reporters and even the agency's own inspector general.

The federal government has proposed more than $135,000 in fines against a New Hampshire wood pellet manufacturer.