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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that DuPont has agreed to pay a penalty of $3.3 million to resolve 57 Toxic S...

The following is a statement from Administrator Lisa P. Jackson regarding that meeting: HTML clipboard "Yesterday, I briefed members...

EPA Removes Saccharin from Hazardous Substances Listing Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency The U.S. Environmental Protection...

At the same time that Americans believe the U.S. is exceptional, they also are inclined to believe that status is far from secure, accordin...

Journal Nature is also reporting on the increase of PAH contamination due to the use of dispersants in the Gulf: The problem, explains ...

EPA identified 431 containment units for coal slurry and has labeled 49 of them "high hazard"—meaning they pose a risk to human he...

EIA's primary report of recent energy statistics indicate that in the first 9 months of 2010: U.S. primary energy production tota...

[ Technology Review ] Japan has already taken measures to innovate and make deals around China's monopoly on the global supply of r...

WDNR -  Measure to kill viruses in drinking water, others on tap Wisconsin residents - and the 8.5 billion gallons of water that Wiscons...

WDNR - Wisconsin is proposing to change its requirements for oceangoing ships arriving in its Great Lakes waters. The change would set ball...

WDNR - Bats in Wisconsin have received some much needed assistance to help stave off a deadly disease. Earlier this month the Natural ...

Forget Reduce, Re-use, Recycle this was a spend and destroy program. Now look at how it is still costing our environment and wallets during ...

First sign of the apocalypse in 2011: "People are very receptive when I talk about these things because I'm a Hummer driver no...

RawStory -  Sen. Al Franken (D-MN), who has championed "Net Neutrality" in the HTML clipboard HTML clipboard past, said the FCC...

HTML clipboard Why a Fertilizer Crisis May (Thankfully) Make Farmers Ditch the Chemicals for Old-Fashioned Poop People talk about Peak Oil...

With 10 shopping days before Christmas, it's looking more and more likely: The holiday-season price of gasoline will top $3 a gallon fo...

This will bring an unstoppable amount of energy & environmental needs The Economist predicts that China will pass the USA in US do...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger addresses the California Air Resources Board urging them to adopt some of the nation's most sweeping clean ai...

physorg - director of the China Meteorological Administration, said chronic water shortages in parts of the country will worsen in the d...

Even though the scope of the regulations has been narrowed for the first five years of the program, ACA sub...

The US Department of Energy today announced $30 million for research projects that would develop advanced biofuels that could replace ...

Hate to say I knew where and why the bee's were disappearing... but you read it here in 2008. Fast Company: The world honey bee popula...

HealthDay News  - The United States has failed to reach almost every goal set for women's health, a new report says. ...

Newsweek: As more bacteria become resistant to the most powerful drugs in our arsenal, new weapons are getting harder and harder to find. Wh...

While higher oil prices put more money in OPEC pockets, oil-producing countries worry that prices could go too high, fan inflation and slow ...

Detroit has been bankrupt for years. It simply refuses to admit it. Detroit's schools are bankrupt as well. A mere 25% of students gradu...

Steve Spence over at Green-Trust.Org offers some life saving tips: Our recent house fire has put my mind in a safety mode, and I wanted to...

On February 24, middle school girls in Argonne, Illinois, will meet with women engineers to work together on hands-on projects as part of Ar...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Worldwide oil demand hit its highest level ever on the back of explosive growth in the developing world, accordin...

Author Craig Shields makes available his best-selling energy book as a free download. The book is based on interviews with 25 of the world...

NY Times - The Obama administration is retreating on long-delayed environmental regulations — new rules governing smog and toxic emissions f...

The U.S. launched its latest salvo in the renewable energy title fight. U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today joined seven other U.S. gov...