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New Jersey officials are choosing to let rotting vultures lie. Experts are horrified at the risk of a new bird flu

NEW YORK — New Yorkers stand on ground that is crumbling beneath their feet — and Angelo Bastone has seen it for himself.

PHILADELPHIA — The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection filed suit Thursday against Monsanto for “extensive damage” caused by PCB contamination, citing “reckless long-term discharge of” polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) statewide and noting pollution from a company facility in Gloucester County on the Delaware River.

PITTSBURGH — On the evening of July 19, when Allegheny County Council met to override Rich Fitzgerald’s veto of a fracking ban in county parks, council members were shown a black-and-white video of natural gas rushing from a well in Boyce Park.

New Jersey has been hit by powerful storms that climate scientists predict will only increase in severity

Penny Wong won't make concessions on areas of national interest during talks with her Chinese counterpart, the first between the two nations in three years.

New Jersey proposed a new environmental justice rule Monday that officials believe will be the toughest in the nation by carving out nearly half the state’s population as living in “overburdened communities” and limiting the types of polluting businesses that can be built there.

In 2020, Florida became just the third state — and the first in decades — to take over management of a key federal Clean Water Act program. Now, state rather than federal officials decide whether companies can dredge and fill wetlands and waterways for projects ranging from mining to housing…

Ticks have a thing for Mary Ritter, but the sentiment is unrequited.

The U.S. houses hundreds of millions of tons of phosphogypsum in open-air stacks, but regulation is inconsistent

Maine’s disaster from PFAS-contaminated produce is causing farms to close and farmers to face the loss of their livelihoods