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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved for five years the use of two products with the weedkiller dicamba on cotton and soybeans that are resistant to it. It also extended the use of a third product. The agency’s prior approval

Harvard scientists have found that fracking is associated with greatly increased radioactive particulate in the air, especially in West Virginia’s dependent petrochemical economy. People who live within about 12 miles of fracking sites are at the highest risk, with ambient

[FROM WBRZ] It’s one of the worst smells Carlas Williams says she’s ever smelled in her life. “We don’t know what it is,” she said. “It smells like raw sewage; it’s horrible.” Williams says she first started smelling the strong

Purdue Pharma, the company that makes OxyContin, the powerful prescription painkiller that experts say helped touch off an opioid epidemic, will plead guilty to three federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion, Justice Department

[FROM CLEANTECHNICA] The US Department of Energy has put to rest the myth that EVs are worse for the environment than vehicles that use diesel or gas engines. This is something like the 107th time that a reputable organization has

[from WASHINGTON POST] The Supreme Court will review a key aspect of a big case in which Baltimore is suing Big Oil over damages from climate change. The question the high court plans to consider next year is a narrow

[from BLOOMBERG GREEN] Exxon Mobil Corp. has been planning to increase annual carbon-dioxide emissions by as much as the output of the entire nation of Greece, an analysis of internal documents reviewed by Bloomberg shows, setting one of the largest