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The Tongass is America’s largest national forest.

Dozens of people were injured, two of them seriously, when a 6.1 magnitude earthquake hit the city of Napa in the wine-producing region of northern California, the city government said.

Japanese officials said the death toll could double to over 80 from landslides that buried dozens of homes on the outskirts of Hiroshima earlier this week.

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

The TVA Allen Fossil Plant was built in the 1950s. It's long past time for coal fleet to clean up.

The owner of a chain of gas stations located in Delaware and Maryland has paid $2,889,351 to the United States in settlement of a federal lawsuit filed to undo the owner’s fraudulent transfer of assets just prior to agreeing to pay a court-sanctioned $2 million penalty for violating underground fuel tank regulations

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the Second Integrated Urban Air Toxics Report to Congress - the final of two reports required under the Clean Air Act (CAA) to inform Congress of progress in reducing public health risks from urban air toxics.

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Rapa Iti: a slice of paradise that enjoys strong links with the EU

EPA and the U.S. Department of Justice have lodged a Consent Decree with the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts, resolving alleged Clean Air Act violations by Coyne Textile Services of New Bedford, Mass.