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A honey bee alights on a cherry blossom in Stockton, California.

A male Arctic grayling, at a Fish & Wildlife Service fish monitoring station in Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Montana.

Smoke from a wood boiler. The devices emit high volumes of hazardous air pollutants and carcinogens.

Money from a historic settlement reached with Anadarko and Kerr-McGee has now been disbursed for cleanups across the country, including $438 million that will go toward paying for past and future cleanup work at two New Jersey Superfund sites.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that Denver on February 2, Colorado-based Newfield Production Company (Newfield) has agreed to resolve alleged Clean Water Act violations and complete wetlands restoration and creation projects at production sites in Uintah and Duchesne counties in Utah’s Uinta Basin. The company will also pay a penalty of $175,000.

Residents of a public housing development in Albany’s South End are taking action against the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) for failing to inform the community of a proposed permit to allow incineration of sewage sludge at the Port of Albany. The permit would allow emissions of a variety of air pollutants, some of which are highly toxic, including dioxins, furans, mercury, hydrogen chloride, cadmium, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, particulates, sulfur dioxide, and beryllium. In a letter sent to DEC Commissioner Joseph Martens, residents criticized DEC’s decision to exempt the project from environmental review under the State Environmental Quality Review Act and called upon the agency to conduct a study of the cumulative health impacts of pollution from all Port of Albany operations on January 29.

An oil train moves through California's Central Valley. The newly opened Bakersfield Crude Terminal has the capacity to receive two 100-car unit trains a day.

The Kulluk, one of Shell's oil drilling rigs for the Arctic.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is inviting small businesses, governments, and not-for-profit organizations to participate as Small Entity Representatives (SERs) for a Small Business Advocacy Review (SBAR) Panel.