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Foam containing ‘forever chemicals’ used against plant fire

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A company hired to help extinguish a fire that gutted a northern Illinois chemical plant this week used foam containing toxic compounds that have...

Dakota Access foes seek environmental review updates from US

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BISMARCK, N.D. — Dakota Access oil pipeline opponents asked a judge Friday to require the pipeline company and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...

Bolivia’s ‘People of the Water’ try to survive loss of lake

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PUNACA TINTA MARIA, Bolivia — For many generations, the homeland of the Uru people here wasn't land at all: It was the brackish waters...

Biden moves to restore clean-water safeguards ended by Trump

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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration began legal action Wednesday to repeal a Trump-era rule that ended federal protections for hundreds of thousands of small...

Dispute over Flint bone scan device heats up in water cases

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FLINT, Mich. — Lawyers are defending the use of a handheld device to check for lead in Flint residents, despite the manufacturer's warning that...

NOAA: Average-sized ‘dead zone’ likely off Louisiana

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NEW ORLEANS — An average “dead zone” is likely in the Gulf of Mexico, where a large area of water holding too little oxygen...

Hundreds of lakes in U.S., Europe are losing oxygen

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Oxygen levels have dropped in hundreds of lakes in the United States and Europe over the last four decades, a new study found. ...

Sparkling beaches: Cyprus has cleanest waters in EU

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NICOSIA, Cyprus — Tourism in Cyprus got a shot in the arm Tuesday after Europe’s environmental watchdog ranked the country first among the European...

River herring, once eyed for endangered list, grow in counts

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PORTLAND, Maine — A small fish that has been the subject of conservation efforts for years appears to be growing in number in the...

EPA restoring state and tribal power to protect waterways

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WASHINGTON — In the latest reversal of a Trump-era policy, the Environmental Protection Agency is restoring a rule that grants states and Native American...