TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking grant applications for projects intended to reduce runoff of polluted water into the Great Lakes.

DENVER (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will take the first major steps this summer to clean up wastewater flowing from dozens of old mines at a Superfund site in southwestern...

HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says a $26 million cleanup will begin this month of contamination on the Lake George Canal in northwestern Indiana.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine's two U.S. senators say the state is receiving more than $23 million from the federal government for projects that help provide clean water.

MINDEN, W.Va. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday added the site of a former mining equipment operation in West Virginia to its National Priorities List of Superfund...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A decision by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation to redefine levels of certain chemicals considered safe in drinking water has caused dissent within the...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The City of Portland and the state of Oregon say they're partnering to address the Portland Harbor cleanup efforts.

Last December, the U.S. Environmental Protection...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants more information about possible alternate locations for Central Maine Power's proposed 145-mile (233-kilometer) transmission...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An oil company has agreed to pay federal and Mississippi regulators $3.5 million in penalties and do more to prevent oil spills under a legal settlement filed last...

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — Officials have found high levels of a chemical commonly used in sunscreen that is believed to harm coral reefs in bay waters off Hawaii's Big Island.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $724,500 to Ohio to protect public drinking water systems.

The federal agency said in a release this week that it...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The U.S. Chemical Safety Board wants federal regulators to re-examine a 1993 study on hydrofluoric acid after an explosion at a Superior oil refinery last year.

NORMAL, Ill. (AP) — Illinois State University faculty and students are hoping to help the environment by creating more sustainable construction materials.

EAST CHICAGO, Ind. (AP) — East Chicago's mayor is urging state officials to advocate for a more protective cleanup of a lead- and arsenic-contaminated former housing complex in the northwestern...

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking proposals from small business to clean up abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Nation and in northwestern New...

HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — A new round of testing has found lead levels in the drinking water at seven northwestern Indiana schools that exceed the federal action level for the toxic metal.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul has successfully withdrawn Wisconsin from a multistate lawsuit challenging a federal rule regulating certain air pollutants, including...

BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — A proposal would set aside some money from a Superfund cleanup settlement to build a man-made creek through the center of Butte.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a nearly $1.2 million grant to help Kentucky clean up petroleum contamination from leaking underground storage...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld a judge's order requiring Titan Tire Corp. and Dico Inc. to pay almost $11 million to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved Kentucky's plan to meet federal air pollutant and visibility requirements around Mammoth Cave National Park.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The Latest on the Environmental Protection Agency's decision not to compel General Electric to restart dredging in the Hudson River (all times local):

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has rejected a petition filed by environmental groups that asked the agency to withdraw the Iowa Department of Natural Resources'...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Researchers at North Carolina State University say they found high levels of toxic chemicals known as PFAS in alligators and striped bass in the Wilmington...

EAST CHICAGO, Ind. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to excavate soil tainted with lead and arsenic from around more than 160 homes in East Chicago, in a push the agency...

MIAMI (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department with a $99.7 million federal loan to build 14 injection wells designed to stop...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire is getting $2.1 million in grants over three years to help run state environmental programs.

The money from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says he is recusing himself from decisions related to the proposed Pebble Mine in southwest Alaska.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Environment Department wants to withdraw from a federal lawsuit challenging Obama-era protections for waterways and wetlands across the country.

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — A bipartisan group of senators including Maine's Republican Sen. Susan Collins is calling on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials to withdraw a proposal that could...

BARAGA, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan-based Native American tribe has received a federal grant to modernize its environmental data reporting system.

DENVER (AP) — A plant that treats wastewater draining from the Gold King Mine in southwestern Colorado has resumed operating after being shut down by a winter storm that struck the area this past...

DENVER (AP) — The Latest on the Colorado blizzard (all times local):

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New Mexico officials have told some municipal drinking water systems to stop using water from two rivers...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Governors of five states oppose President Donald Trump's call for a 90 percent spending cut for a Great Lakes cleanup program.

HONOLULU (AP) — The Honolulu City Council is urging the state Department of Health and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reject the military's plans to prevent leaks of enormous fuel...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking public comments on a proposed settlement involving industrial pollution in southwestern Michigan.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it plans to do comprehensive reviews of site cleanups at six federally designated Superfund sites in Vermont.

CHICAGO (AP) — Government air monitors recently detected the highest level of a cancer-causing chemical near a suburban Chicago plant since testing began at the site, the U.S. Environmental...

SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says one of the nation's biggest seafood companies has agreed to spend up to $23 million to fix serious air pollution issues with its...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — One of Alabama's largest coal companies has agreed to pay $775,000 in penalties related to air pollution violations near Birmingham.

Al.com reported Tuesday that the proposed Drummond Company settlement comes nearly eight years after violations were discovered during a facility inspection.

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Environmental groups have filed a federal lawsuit pushing for more action to prevent the toxic algae blooms that plague Lake Erie's western basin each summer.

The lawsuit says the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency isn't moving fast enough and must hold Ohio accountable for reducing the polluting runoff that feeds the algae.

The Environmental Law & Policy Center's lawsuit filed late Thursday in Toledo claims Ohio's efforts to prevent blooms have had little impact.