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‘A powder keg’: Lawsuit claims Texas company knowingly built dangerous battery plant at Moss Landing, leading to major toxic fire
Legal actions begin to pile up against Vistra for the Jan. 16 fire which has given the battery industry an image problem.
Opinion: Lee Zeldin should trash EPA’s national recycling plan
Like other Cabinet members in the Trump administration, new Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee Zeldin has hit the ...
EPA backtracks on Trump comment about cutting staff by 65% but says major spending cuts are coming
The head of the EPA's largest union called the comments by Trump and Zeldin “disheartening'' and said there is ”a lack of leadership within the EPA." ...
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Colorado Is Tackling Air Pollution in Vulnerable Neighborhoods by Regulating Five Air Toxics
The state is taking a major step to protect people from air pollutants that cause cancer or other major health problems, ...
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Plan to build a road with radioactive waste in Florida prompts legal challenge against the EPA
Located east of Tampa, the project involves phosphogypsum, a radioactive, carcinogenic, and toxic waste generated by the fertilizer industry.
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South Dakota’s lone death row inmate argues for new appeals in federal court
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. ( South Dakota Searchlight) — The only man on death row in South Dakota wants a federal judge to give him ...
Bear hunting season bill fails in CT. Lawmaker: Action needed before ‘somebody is mauled or killed’
The bill would have allowed for a limited bear hunting season, but it failed to find support and died in the environment ...
Here's what happened during President Donald Trump's 6th week in office
The Trump administrations efforts to broker a peace negotiation ending the war in Ukraine came to an abrupt halt on Friday.
Scientists scorn EPA push to say climate change isn't a danger, say just look around
Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee Zeldin has privately pushed the White House for a rewrite of the agency’s finding ...
The first phase of removing wildfire debris is over. What happens to those collection sites?
LOS ANGELES — When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began Phase 1 removal of household hazardous materials from ...
How Philadelphia’s probationary federal employees are coping with mass government layoffs
After a federal judge said Thursday the mass firing of probationary employees was likely illegal, terminated workers are ...