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Thank you for coming out on this beautiful spring day to participate in this first-ever 6 k Walk for Water in celebration of Earth Day.

Emergency crews drop a fire retardant slurry on a running wildfire to save a house on April in Strawn, Texas, on Tuesday.

Climbers keep us updated by tweeting from Arctic drilling rig Leiv Eiriksson.

McGuinty Government Helps Create Up To 200 New Jobs In Mississauga

Millions could be affected by the dam

Industries searching for offshore oil should not drill in sensitive waters before fully ensuring all safety measures are in place, says IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature).

A family from New Orleans visits a beach in Pensacola, Fla., just before spring break season last month. In the distance, workers continue to clean up after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Clifton Perry stands on what's left of this home Monday in Colerain, N.C., where a tornado hit Saturday

For the first time, the Big Ten conference has surpassed the Ivy League conference as the top athletic conference in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) College and University Green Power Challenge. The University of Pennsylvania continues to be the top individual school in the challenge, beating out 68 other universities by purchasing more than 200 million kilowatt hours (KWh) of green power, or 47 percent of its power purchases. Purchases of green power help accelerate the nation’s voluntary green power market and help protect people’s health and the environment.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today its plan to address the four draft Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) assessments that were placed on hold in June 2010, pending a review of some of the underlying studies relied on in the assessments. EPA conducts IRIS assessments to determine the potential impact of specific chemicals on people’s health. The four assessments are methanol, methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE), ethyl tertiary-butyl ether (ETBE), and acrylonitrile. Methanol is used in paints, varnishes, wiper fluid and adhesives. MTBE and ETBE are gasoline additives and acrylonitrile is used in the manufacture of certain plastics.