Trump Administration to Uphold Some PFAS Limits but Eliminate Others
The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that it would uphold drinking water standards for two harmful “forever chemicals,” present in
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Fossil Suggests Feathered Archaeopteryx Probably Flew Like a Chicken
In 1861, scientists discovered Archaeopteryx, a dinosaur with feathers, in 150-million-year-old limestones in Solnhofen, Germany. They didn’t know it at
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This Fossilized Creature Has 3 Eyes, but Everything Else Looks Familiar
More than 500 million years before Matt Groening and “The Simpsons” introduced us to Blinky, a mutated fish with an
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Behind a Museum Door, These Beetles Are Eating Flesh for Science
Deep in the labyrinth of the American Museum of Natural History, past the giant suspended blue whale and the first
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Interior Department Weighs Less Conservation, More Extraction
The Trump administration is proposing a drastic reimagining of how public lands across the United States are used and managed,
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Trump’s Focus on Punishing Drug Dealers May Hurt Drug Users Trying to Quit
President Trump has long railed against drug traffickers. He has said they should be given the death penalty “for their
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3M to Pay New Jersey Up to $450 Million for Drinking-Water Contamination
3M is set to pay New Jersey up to $450 million over the next quarter-century to settle claims it contaminated
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Republican Budget Bill Aims to End I.R.A. Clean Energy Boom
At least 24 factories have been set up in the United States to produce electric cars that qualify for the
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A Toxic Pit Could Be a Gold Mine for Rare-Earth Elements
There’s a tale told about a miner who found copper cans in his garbage dump in the early days of
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Farmers Sued Over Deleted Climate Data. So the Government Will Put It Back.
The Agriculture Department will restore information about climate change that was scrubbed from its website when President Trump took office,
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