Environment

The agency tried to hand the repeal to Congress instead of going through its own rulemaking process.

Three advocacy groups are suing to block the pesticide, arguing it also threatens four endangered fish species.

UNEP's own modeling now points to a peak above the treaty limit, not a gradual approach to it.

The board found regulators reused a three-year-old environmental review written for a solar plant, never studying the data center's own effect on water, power or a threatened desert tortoise.

The rule NRC officials are preparing to eliminate has required the nuclear industry to keep exposure below legal limits, not just under them.

The developer cut the plan from 400 acres to 27 and from 51 megawatts to 15 after FERC found four deficiencies, and comments close October 19.

Opposition has swung 33 points in a year as utility bills climb, and more than 530 counties and towns have restricted or banned the facilities.

DETROIT — Joyce Collins has buried nearly her entire immediate family. Her father died in 1992 after cancer spread to his bones. Her oldest sister was diagnosed with lung cancer, later developed breast and brain cancer, and died in 2013. Another sister died from pancreatic cancer in 2007.

Drought and a ruptured pipeline have forced Puerto Rico into revolving water shut-offs. For many people, the disruption started years earlier, as did loss of faith in the utility.

The rule's own text puts the 2001 protections at 58.5 million acres, and comments close at midnight on September 21.