The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached a settlement with the garbage-disposal giant Waste Management of Wisconsin, Inc. over allegedly illegal hazardous-waste practices at a landfill in Franklin.

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Attorney General Josh Kaul has joined a coalition of state attorneys general calling for President Donald Trump to withdraw an executive order that allows federal agencies to avoid full compliance with environmental laws on infrastructure projects.

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Federal regulators have fined Enbridge $6.7 million for allegedly failing to quickly repair their pipelines.

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Additional money provided by Congress for Great Lakes environmental improvements will be used to hasten cleanups of highly toxic sites and step up work to combat other longstanding forms of pollution, federal officials said Thursday.

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Describing windows rattled by industrial blasts and windowsills covered in toxic ash, a black resident of Texas' oil hub joined Democratic lawmakers, state officials and others Tuesday in urging the Trump administration to drop a proposed rollback that they said would silence disadvantaged people battling big polluters.

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State, local and federal officials announced an agreement on Tuesday to hasten the clean-up of industrial pollution that's plagued Milwaukee's waterways for decades.

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President Donald Trump said on Monday that farmers would be the big winners from the administration's proposed rollback of federal protections for wetlands and waterways across the country.

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The government shutdown has suspended federal cleanups at Superfund sites around the country and forced the cancellation of public hearings, deepening mistrust and resentment among those who feel people in power long ago abandoned them to living among the toxic residue of the country's factories and mines.

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The Trump administration on Friday targeted an Obama-era regulation credited with helping reduce toxic mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants, saying the benefits to human health and the environment may not be worth the cost of the regulation.

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The Trump administration on Tuesday came out with new rules scaling back Obama Administration constraints on coal-fired power plants, striking at one of the former administration's main programs to rein in climate-changing fossil-fuel emissions.

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