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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that Rural Action Inc. in Ohio will receive US$300 000 in Brownfields funding to conduct environmental investigations and cleanup planning at abandoned mine sites in Perry County.

For decades, many communities were deemed too poor for federal flood protection. Now a new section of the federal water law could help them.

As farmers across Central Oregon face a third straight year of drought, and wildlife in this region’s rivers teeter on the brink of extinction, those who control the flow of water are primed to pump millions of dollars into infrastructure in a last-ditch effort to help both people and wildlife. Central Oregon Irrigation District, the largest district in Central Oregon in terms of patrons, is at the vanguard of this effort and expects to pour $100 million over the next decade to pipe a sign...