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Businesses, organizations and communities have raised concerns over a new budget item that could fuel toxic blue-green algae.

A 2020 United Nations report estimated that as many as 550,000 insect species — about 10% of the world’s total — are at risk of extinction.

Public transit is already insufficient in rural areas, leaving residents with few options as they travel greater distances to access health care. But older residents who depend on volunteers to get to appointments face another challenge.

Several times a month, Jim Maybach drives 5 miles from his house in Hay Creek, Minnesota, toward the Mississippi River.

A project to deepen the Mississippi River from its mouth to the Huey P Long Bridge in New Orleans is now compl...

NEW BEDFORD — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is in its final years of cleaning up one of the nations largest Superfund sites, the New Bedford Harbor, say agency officials.  The EPA held a public meeting Wednesday evening with about 25 members of the public and local government in virtual attendance. Last year, the agency finished underwater dredging, completed shoreline remediation of certain zones, closed cleaning facilities, and planted salt marshes. This year, the agency ...

At least 16 environmental groups have signed a letter to Oregon legislators in support of a call by the Oregon State Building Trades Council and affiliates to require developers benefiting from state tax subsidies to meet labor and workforce standards. It started when members of Climate Jobs PDX, a project of Portland Jobs with Justice, read in the Labor Press that most recent renewable energy projects in Northeastern Oregon have been built by nonunion, out-of-state firms with nonunion crews fr...