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WASHINGTON a " The fleet of new cars and trucks sold to U.S. consumers averaged 21 miles per gallon in the 2008 model year, a modest increase over the previous year, the Environmental Protection Agency reported Friday.New vehicle fuel efficiency improved 2 percent in 2008 from 20.6 mpg for the 2007 model year.

Rep. Shelley Moore Capito says she's troubled by what she heard in a meeting with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson.

The U.S. Department of the Interior announced Nov. 18 that it is taking immediately strengthening its oversight of state surface coal mining programs and to develop federal regulations to better protect streams affected by surface coal mining operations.

Oregon's dirtiest abandoned mine doesn't look like it's going to be cleaned up any time soon, unless someone claims responsibility for it and foots the $50 million bill.

Representatives of environmental, religious and medical groups say they delivered more than 2,000 comments to the Environmental Protection Agency's Dallas office on Thursday, calling for a halt to coal-fired plant construction in Texas.

The St. Louis and Kansas City areas, along with part of southeast Missouri, have violated 2008 air quality standards and may be forced to impose new restrictions, the state said Thursday.

A central Illinois utility company will launch a $20 million environmental cleanup of contaminants stored underground at a defunct gas-manufacturing plant in Quincy.

The U.S. Department of Justice, on behalf of the Food and Drug Administration, has accused Haifa Smoked Fish Inc.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said a second series of tests on samples collected from the Midland, Saginaw and Bay City water systems show no contamination by highly toxic dioxins or furans.

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is announcing new requirements for audio/video products to earn the Energy Star label.

The US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a new one - hour Sulfur Dioxide standard.

Road Commissioner Kevin Bird doesn't know what he'll do with all the tires he picks up in Hickory Point Township if the Macon County Solid Waste Department stops accepting them for recycling.

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The Food and Drug Administration today notified nearly 30 manufacturers of caffeinated alcoholic beverages that it intends to look into the safety and legality of their products.

A cleaner era in train travel begins in the Bay Area today with the debut of an engine overhauled for $826,000 to burn cleaner than any other diesel passenger train in California.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says action will be taken to prevent indoor air contamination of buildings near a chemical waste Superfund site in eastern Los Angeles County.

The Environmental Protection Agency says high levels of a cancer-causing chemical have been found in a Long Beach wetlands -- a discovery that could hinder a restoration project.

The federal judge overseeing the balancing act between salmon and Columbia Basin dams said he doesn't think he can consider new steps the Obama administration wants to take.

International Coal Group said Monday it has settled a lawsuit filed by two environmental groups challenging a federal water-quality permit for an Appalachian surface mine.