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A California judge this week denied Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla’s effort to throw out a lawsuit seeking to guarantee permanent public access to the San Mateo County beach.

A coalition of environmental groups today filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to set limits on...

Environmental groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency today for failing to set limits on harmful chemicals like cyanide, benzene, mercury and chlorides in wastewater emitted by oil refineries and plants that produce chemicals, fertilizer, plastics, pesticides and nonferrous metals. The Clean Water Act requires the EPA to limit discharges of industrial pollutants based on the best available wastewater treatment methods, and to tighten those limits at least once every five years where data...