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A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing chemicals.But no one responsible for the lab at the base can recall that the procedure -- mandated by the Navy -- was ever conducted.The U.S. Marine Corps maintains that the carbon chloroform extract (CCE) test would not have uncovered the carcinogens that fouled the southeastern North Carolina base's water system from at least the mid-1950s until wells were capped in the mid-1980s. But experts say even this "relatively primitive" test -- required by Navy health directives as early as 1963 -- would have told officials that something was terribly wrong beneath Lejeune's sandy soil.A just-released study from the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry cited a February 1985 level for trichloroethylene of 18,900 parts per billion in one Le...
Whether they call it global warming, climate change or even global cooling, more and more Americans are taking a stand on one side or the other of this hotly debated...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to change how it analyzes problems and makes decisions, in a way that would give it vastly expanded power to regulate ...
A city on the north coast of Puerto Rico has agreed to spend $56 million to repair and upgrade water treatment facilities in an agreement with the U.S. Environmental...
Detroit says it will ruin your engine. The EPA says it's safe. Farmers say it's better than foreign oil. Oil companies say it's more expensive than gasoline. But as ...
Gov. Dave Heineman, (R-Neb.), on the economic impact of the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting and the Keystone Pipeline.
The Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged Tuesday that it released personal information on potentially thousands of farmers and ranchers to environmental grou...
An Environmental Protection Agency spokeswoman on Thursday denied that former EPA chief Lisa Jackson used a New Jersey government email account while she was heading...
NEW YORK – On Wednesday, May 11, the Boston Bruins received the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Merit Award for their efforts in food waste reco...
President Obama, in each of his last three State of the Union addresses, spoke urgently of the need to cut through the "red tape" in Washington. But regulatory costs...
Energy companies are lining up for their shot to drill in the Dakotas and Montana after a new government report revealed that a massive geological formation stretchi...
A new federal report blames a combination of problems for a mysterious and dramatic disappearance of U.S. honeybees since 2006.The intertwined factors cited include ...
A recent video from a President Obama-aligned group is under fire from fact-checkers for claiming hundreds of House members voted to call climate change a "hoax" -- ...
Purple wildflowers sprout in abundance around the bright-yellow pipe, one of several jutting from the sandy soil in this unassuming patch of grass and mud. A dirty h...
The IRS targeting Tea Party groups and other conservative-leaning political organizations has reignited calls for reform and the argument among Capitol Hill Republic...
Senate Republicans boycotted Thursday a scheduled committee vote on President Obama's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. All eight GOP members of the ...
CEOs of large organizations all face the same problem – driving their agendas in organizations too diverse and geographically dispersed to manage directly. They hire...
It's as brazen a defiance of the law as Washington has seen, and the perpetrators are going to get away with it unless things change quickly.The Environmental Protec...
Oklahoma attorney general battling agency
Rep. Robert Latta, (R-Ohio), on efforts to gain approval of the Keystone Pipeline.