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CHICAGO — Frustrated that U.S. oil refineries are still allowed to dump massive amounts of toxic chemicals and heavy metals into lakes and rivers, environmental groups are urging a federal court to order more stringent regulation of some of the nation’s biggest polluters.

Officials in southeastern Michigan were angry when a landfill and deep-injection wells near Detroit received contaminated soils and liquids from a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio

The Biden administration will propose strict new automobile pollution limits this week that would require at least 54% of new vehicles sold in the U.S. to be electric by 2030, ramping up quickly to as high as 67% by 2032

When people think of electric vehicles, or EVs for short, they typically think of passenger cars, not commercial trucks or vans. But the volume of medium- and heavy-duty EVs is growing and recent decisions by federal and California regulators are sure to increase their numbers.

The American EV brand is pursuing an official Certificate of Conformity (CoC) with the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) to validate the driving range of the Ocean in its Extreme variant, with the hope that the EPA will confirm the company's 350-mile estimate.

Sources suggest the US EPA could come forward with an announcement in Detroit on Wednesday, April 12, and it's bad news for gas cars.

Advocates warn plants like the latest addition to the Texas complex generate hazardous pollutants and provide cover for oil giants to produce new plastic products

President Biden has set a non-binding goal for at least 50% of all new cars sold in 2030 to be zero-emissions models.

Residents of a rural Tasmanian town were told to either leave, or wear masks, when dense "acrid" smoke blanketed the valley following more than 115 hectares of regeneration burns.

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MINNEAPOLIS — EPA Administrator Michael Regan last month made one of his agency's strongest statements to date about the danger of "forever chemicals." New restrictions on those pollutants in drinking water would "prevent thousands of deaths and prevent tens of thousands of serious PFAS-related illnesses," Regan said.