Several employees signed the letter, which decried the EPA’s direction under President Donald Trump. DULUTH – The ...

The EPA said it placed 139 employees on paid leave to investigate their use of official titles when signing the letter.

EPA places 6 Duluth lab staff on leave for signing dissent letter The union representing federal workers said the move violated the employees' free speech rights and vowed to take legal action.

Remediation of cancer-causing industrial toxins on the Thomson Reservoir resumes as environmental agencies aim to decontaminate the St. Louis River by the end of the decade.

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One summer day in 2017, a front-page story in the StarNews of Wilmington, North Carolina, shook up the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. The drinking water system, it said, was polluted with a ...

The Trump administration is dropping plans to allow continued use of the last type of asbestos legally allowed in U.S.

Wildfire smoke from Canada has made for bad air quality over parts of the Upper Midwest. Most of Minnesota had “unhealthy” ...

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