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A federal magistrate judge recommended that the Federal District Court in the Eastern District of Texas deny efforts by Energy Future Holdings (EFH) and their subsidiary Luminant Generating Company to stop action by the Sierra Club to enforce common sense clean air safeguards at the Martin Lake coal plant. The magistrate judge recommended that the federal district court deny every argument made by EFH and Luminant designed to avoid proceeding to court.

An elephant mouth in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania

A false killer whale, snagged on a longline,
becomes victim of commercial fishing.

A late winter storm dumped heavy snow on the midwestern United States on Tuesday, contributing to numerous highway crashes and flight cancellations as it moved east toward the Ohio Valley and the mid-Atlantic states.

Haze in Grand Canyon National Park. (EPA)
Above: A clear day
Below: A hazy day.

The Democratic Republic of Congo's logging sector is in a state of “organised chaos” according to a new report from Greenpeace Africa, threatening to cut off trading with the European Union (EU), the world’s largest timber market.

Chinese officials say a shallow, 5.5 magnitude earthquake has hit southwest China, causing hundreds of homes to collapse and injuring about 20 people.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Thursday a settlement with Waste Management of Hawaii, Inc. and the City and County of Honolulu over violations of air pollution laws at the Waimanalo Gulch Landfill in Kapolei, Oahu.

On Thursday the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Countrymark Refining and Logistics, LLC has agreed to pay a $167,000 civil penalty, perform environmental projects totaling more than $180,000, and spend $18 million on new pollution controls to resolve Clean Air Act (CAA) violations at its refinery, located in Mount Vernon, Ind.