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The state’s largest ever settlement for “forever chemicals" holds DuPont and its spin-offs accountable for contamination at four sites and ensures taxpayers won't be left with the cleanup bill.
The EPA rule could trim 2 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
Efforts to pass laws and advance clean energy projects can significantly reduce emissions, and at a low cost.
The producer of Netflix’s “Buy Now!” says companies should be accountable for the trash they generate.
U.S. sanctions helped cause the near-total collapse of Venezuelan oil production — damage that President Trump is now using as justification for his military strike against the country.
Exemption allows facilities using ethylene oxide, a gas linked to health problems in humans, two more years to meet federal standards.
In the most polluted areas, a quarter of babies are born underweight. The watchdog group wants the EPA to intervene.
Climate change could be helping the flesh-eating screwworm fly spread, undoing decades of progress — and the USDA isn’t doing anything about it.
With a newly elected leader, the International Seabed Authority must decide the future of more than half of the world’s ocean floor.
