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Air quality concerns prompt safety pause at nuke dump
The manager of the federal government`s nuclear waste repository in New Mexico has halted work because of poor air quality in parts of the underground facility. Officials with Nuclear Waste Partnership announced the "safety pause" ...
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Seas are rising way faster than any time in past 2,800 years
Sea levels on Earth are rising several times faster than they have in the past 2,800 years and are accelerating because of man-made global warming, according to new studies. An international team of scientists dug into two dozen locations across ...
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Feds seek borehole test for potential hot nuke waste burial
The federal government plans to spend $80 million assessing whether its hottest nuclear waste can be stored in 3-mile-deep holes, a project that could provide an alternative strategy to a Nevada repository plan that was halted in 2010. The ...
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NYC waters are teeming with plastic particles, study finds
The waterways surrounding New York City are a soup of plastic, ranging from discarded takeout containers down to tiny beads that end up in the food supply, according to a new report by an environmental group. The study, by the group NY/NJ ...
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NY to require manufacturers to pay for fouled water cleanup
Two industrial companies will be held liable for the cleanup of a toxic chemical that found its way into an upstate New York village`s drinking water, the acting state environmental commissioner said Thursday. The Department of Environmental ...
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Indian capital to curb cars again to control air pollution
The New Delhi government will restrict cars on the streets for another two weeks to fight the extreme air pollution that has made the Indian capital the world`s most polluted city. Private cars will be allowed on the streets on alternate days ...
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Coke suspends bottling at plant at center of water dispute
Coca-Cola suspended bottling at three plants in India, including one in the parched northwest where farmers have been protesting the company`s use of dwindling groundwater reserves. Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages, which is a subsidiary of The ...
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Regulator fines Duke Energy nearly $7M for coal ash spill
The country`s largest electric company is being fined $6.6 million for environmental pollution related to a big spill of liquefied coal ash in 2014, North Carolina environmental regulators said Tuesday. The fine covers violations that Duke Energy ...
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UN agency proposes greenhouse gas emissions rules for planes
A U.N. panel on Monday proposed long-sought greenhouse gas emissions standards for airliners and cargo planes, drawing praise from the White House and criticism from environmentalists who said they would be too weak to actually slow global warming. ...
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California farmers reap record sales in record drought
A new state report shows California farmers reaping record sales despite the epic drought, thriving even as city-dwellers have been forced to conserve water, household wells have run dry and fish have died. California`s 76,400 farms recorded $53.5 ...
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After 15 years, cleanup plan approved for contaminated town
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency granted final approval Monday to a costly cleanup program for a Montana community where health officials say hundreds of people have been killed by asbestos poisoning. The agency`s action comes more than 15 ...
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Radioactive material found in groundwater below nuke plant
An apparent overflow at a nuclear power plant north of New York City spilled highly radioactive water into an underground monitoring well, but nuclear regulators said the public isn`t at risk. Officials at the Indian Point Energy Center in ...
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EPA: Mine spill dumped 880,000 pounds of metals in river
A 3 million-gallon spill from a southwestern Colorado gold mine last year may have dumped more than 880,000 pounds of metals into the Animas River, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Friday. Some of the metals reached the San Juan River, ...
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First research links California quakes to oil operations
A 2005 spate of quakes in California`s Central Valley almost certainly was triggered by oilfield injection underground, a study published Thursday said in the first such link in California between oil and gas operations and earthquakes. Researchers ...
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VW submits fix for 3.0-liter diesels to California officials
The Volkswagen Group of America submitted its proposal Tuesday to bring Porsches, Audis and Volkswagen cars with six-cylinder, 3.0-liter diesel engines up to California`s air quality standards after state regulators found the vehicles were ...
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Federal coal sales moratorium shakes industry stronghold
Like a trusty pickup truck, Gillette has bounced through tough times before and pulled through, thanks to coal. Lately the bumps for an industry that`s brought wealth and jobs to this town are getting bigger - bankruptcies of major producers, ...
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Review reveals problems protecting workers from pesticides
Dozens of farmworkers looked up at the little yellow plane buzzing over the Florida radish field, a mist of pesticide falling from its wings. Farmworkers are supposed to be protected by government rules regulating exposure to toxic farm chemicals. ...
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Michigan undertaking plan to determine if Flint water safe
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has undertaken a five-part strategy to determine whether Flint`s water, which has become contaminated with lead, is safe to drink. The state said the plan to try to ensure that drinking water no ...
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Sandoval: Nevada needs more time on mine Superfund status
Facing a deadline set by federal regulators, Gov. Brian Sandoval said Friday the state needs more time to decide whether to end its long-held opposition to having an abandoned Nevada mine listed among the nation`s most contaminated sites. U.S. ...
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NOAA, NASA: 2015 was Earth`s hottest by a wide margin
Last year wasn`t just the Earth`s hottest year on record - it left a century of high temperature marks in the dust. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration and NASA announced Wednesday that 2015 was by far the hottest year in 136 years of ...