Topic: United States
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Significant levels of the world's most-used herbicide have been detected in air and water samples from two U.S. farm states, government scientists said on Wednesday, in groundbreaking research on the active ingredient in Monsanto Co's Roundup."It is ...
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - An appeals court has refused to block wolf hunts planned in Idaho and Montana while conservation groups press a legal case against an unprecedented act of Congress that lifted federal protection of the animals.More than 1,500 wolves in ...
Regional agency charged with governing the lake is unwieldy, making it hard to get projects approved that would clean up Tahoe and the detritus of urban sprawlStatelineWe drive on U.S. Highway 50 toward Lake Tahoe, its surface shimmering with sunlight, the hillsides ...
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court refused on Thursday to block wolf hunts planned in Idaho and Montana while conservation groups press a legal case against an unprecedented act of Congress that lifted federal protection of the animals.More than 1,500 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined with the Sierra Club on Thursday in a $50 million, four-year plan to campaign for replacing one-third of aging U.S. coal-fired power plants with clean energy."If we are going to get serious about ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People living in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida are most at risk in the United States from toxic emissions spewing from coal and oil-fired power plants, two leading American environmental groups said in a report on Wednesday.Electricity generation and chemical ...
PORTLAND, Ore (Reuters) - Oregon's environmental regulators on Thursday approved new health-based water quality standards, touted as the toughest in the nation, for curtailing toxic pollutants in rivers and streams.The rules, subject to approval by the Environmental Protection Agency, are up to ...
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday said two environmental groups' could sue for enforcement of federal pollution standards at Exxon Mobil Corp's Baytown, Texas, refinery, the nation's largest.Exxon, the largest U.S. refiner, had asked federal Judge David Hitner to throw ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Friday rejected a challenge to the government's decision to allow California to cut greenhouse gas emissions from new cars sold in the state.The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and National Automobile Dealers Association asked an ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two cattle groups filed suit in Florida on Thursday to overturn U.S. water pollution rules that also are challenged by Florida state officials and businesses as ruinously expensive.The Environmental Protection Agency set numerical limits last fall for nutrient levels ...
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