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High levels of manganese in drinking water could harm infants and children, research shows. But industries that use or produce the metal are downplaying the risks in a battle with the EPA.
A developer wanted to build a facility to capture carbon. Locals saw an environmental menace.
The Biden administration told justices it doesn't have an obligation to bring more water to the reservation.
A new study pinpoints the economic cost of emissions, paving the way for international legal action.
$10 for 3.2 billion gallons of water? A loophole in Utah law could enable the country’s first commercial oil mining operation.
A 'hundred-year flood' would disproportionately affect the county's Black communities.
Time and again, mining company Homestake and government agencies promised to clean up waste from decades of uranium processing. It didn’t happen.
The researcher Hamza Hamouchene outlines a path toward a clean energy future without "green colonialism."
The farmers likely face few consequences because of laws that one regulator says are inadequate.
