EPA: Uranium in Nev. wells; whistleblower, preacher's wife helped crack toxic mining mystery Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not ...
EPA: Fuel efficiency for new cars and trucks up slightly in 2008 model year The fleet of new cars and trucks sold to ...
Environmental agency gets tough, lists fugitives from its justice, FBI-style Joseph OConnor was an Irish man with a Nevada business wanted by Interpol for selling ships to drug traffickers out of Spain. OConnor bought and sold boats connected to massive drug seizures ...
Federal judge rejects objections to EPA agreement to set Fla. water pollution standards The federal government will attempt to set Florida's water pollution standards — the first time it'll try that for any state — under an agreement approved Monday. U.S. District ...
EPA releases report detailing problems with waste impoundments at W.Va. power plant The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a draft report detailing previously reported problems with two waste impoundments at an American Electric Power coal-burning plant in West Virginia. The report ...
Frontier Oil plans to fight $6.8 million EPA fine at Wyoming refinery A Wyoming refinery says it plans to fight the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's nearly $7 million fine levied in late September for allegedly dumping hazardous waste into a pond designed ...
Study finds 49 percent of lakes and reservoirs contain mercury-tainted fish The case for tougher federal standards to limit dangerous mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants and other industrial sources gained momentum when the U.S. Geological Survey announced in August that 25 ...
Libby official wants EPA to pay for city buildings demolished during asbestos cleanup A city councilman in Libby said Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency owes the asbestos-plagued Superfund community $2 million for the demolition of several contaminated buildings. The city-owned buildings ...
Manchin, other W.Va. officials vow to speak in single, pro-coal voice to mining regulators An array of West Virginia's top political leaders stood shoulder-to-shoulder Tuesday with executives from the state's top coal producers, vowing to form a united front in the face ...
EPA finds fish in about half of nation's lakes and reservoirs harbor hazardous chemicals Nearly half of lakes and reservoirs nationwide contain fish with potentially harmful levels of the toxic metal mercury, according to a federal study released Tuesday. The Environmental Protection ...
EPA says first phase of stimulus-funded cleanup of former Indiana steel plant nearly complete The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says the first phase of a toxic waste cleanup at a north central Indiana Superfund site is nearly complete. EPA officials visited the ...
NJ factory where M&Ms are made flips switch on new solar array to provide clean energy Those green M&Ms really are getting greener. A New Jersey candy factory that produces M&M's flipped the switch Monday on a new solar array that provides ...
