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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The owners of nearly half a million polluting Volkswagens in the U.S. will be given the option of selling them back to the company or getting them repaired at VW's expense, under a deal announced by a federal judge on Thursday Senior U.S.
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FLINT, Mich. (AP) — The Flint water crisis became a criminal case Wednesday when two state regulators and a city employee were charged with official misconduct, evidence-tampering and other offenses over the lead contamination that alarmed the country and brought cries of racism. "This is a road back to restoring
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Massachusetts
BOSTON — A lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court by a Charles River environmental advocacy group accuses the Environmental Protection Agency of failing to notify high-density commercial and residential property developers of their responsibility to obtain stormwater discharge permits, a move that comes ahead of the federal government's plan
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department sued Volkswagen on Monday over emissions-cheating software found in nearly 600,000 vehicles sold in the United States, potentially exposing the company to billions of dollars in penalties for clean air violations. The civil complaint against the German automaker, filed on behalf of the Environmental
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DETROIT (AP) — Volkswagen became the world's top-selling carmaker trumpeting the environmental friendliness, fuel efficiency and high performance of diesel-powered vehicles that met America's tough Clean Air laws. VW's success story was so good that pollution-control advocates did their own tests, hoping to persuade other
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Written by Matthew Brown BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — An internal government investigation has found that federal and state regulators underestimated the potential for a blowout from a Colorado mine, documents released Wednesday show.
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Here's today's political quiz question: What do these five states — Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, California and Maine — have in common? Yes, they are blue states ruled by Democrats, but that's not all. These are the states that use the least amount of coal — 2
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