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Jury decides Greenpeace should pay more than $660 million in damages to Energy Transfer Partners for defamation, trespassing and other illegal actions involving protests against the pipeline. 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to reconsider existing regulations for pollution cleanup, water discharge and air emissions limits while gutting internal diversity efforts and environmental justice programs for already hard-hit communities.

The latest transboundary wastewater flows threaten to delay the urgent repair, rerouting and rehabilitation of a pipe system on the Mexican side of the border serving wastewater treatment plants in both countries.

Worried about federal funding, Illinois has postponed closing on property rights for land needed for a $1.2-billion project to prevent Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes.

In 5-4 ruling, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett joining liberal wing in dissent, the high court says EPA has the responsibility to provide details for wastewater plant discharge permits.

Engineering firm agrees to $53-million settlement of lawsuit brought by Michigan Attorney General on behalf of 26,000 Flint residents over the city's water lead contamination crisis. 

Industry and labor union leaders join lawmakers in calling for permitting reforms at Senate committee hearing on Feb. 19.

The New York State Dept. of Transportation must prepare an environmental impact statement before advancing the Kensington Expressway cap project.

DC federal judge on Feb. 3  extended her block of the Trump funding freeze on grants and loans, but industry groups still are unclear on where their project money is.