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Federal officials have told DuPont to take a second look at whether bacteria in the soil could be used to clean up contamination beneath a Pompton Lakes neighborhood.

It was standing room only at Thursday's public hearing between city officials, Garrison City residents and representatives of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

After public outcry by California mosquito control agencies that strict new permitting regulations would eliminate West Nile virus fogging and jeopardize public health, the state Thursday proposed scaled-back pesticide regulations that would ease rules on fumigating adult mosquitoes.

The Environmental Protection Agency approved a rule today banning all passenger and cargo ships over 300 tons from releasing sewage into ocean waters within three miles of California's 1,624-mile coast and the Channel Islands.

Federal officials and Union Pacific Railroad have agreed to a $1.5 million settlement over oil and coal spills in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah.

A Mississippi levee board is asking a federal appeals court to revive a $220 million flood control project that the Environmental Protection Agency vetoed in 2008, claiming it would harm wetlands and wildlife.

This week we take a look at the impact that President Ronald Reagan and his controversial environmental policies had on the butte.

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MANITOWOC - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted Lake Michigan Carferry Service, the owner of the S.S. Badger, permission to apply for an individual permit, according to a press release.

Jan. 20: Friends, family and people effected by well water problems surround Craig Sautner as he speaks outside his home in Dimock, Pa.

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Southwestern Electric Power Co. has asked the Arkansas Public Service Commission to review its plans to retrofit its coal-fired plant in Gentry with environmental controls.

A real estate developer said he and four partners plan to make an offer to buy the city's two... NEWARK - A new University of Delaware study says that the Environmental Protection Agency has overestimated the amount of chicken waste that's in the nutrient runoff that enters the Chesapeake Bay.

The company that built the stage ahead of last summer's deadly Indiana State Fair collapse appeared to be indifferent to safety standards, the state Department of Labor said Wednesday.

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Water pollution rules that some environmentalists say are too weak are on hold in the Florida Legislature.

Last night's public meeting, hosted by Seattle's Office of Professional Accountability Review Board at Seattle University, was billed as an "open discussion" to ease tensions between the Seattle Police Department and communities of color, led by Dr.

Federal authorities on Tuesday launched their investigation into how an employee of a west suburban Naperville concrete company came to be partially buried in a silo containing 25 tons of sand.