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Each year, power plants in the U.S. collectively kick out enough of this stuff to fill a train of coal cars stretching from Manhattan to Los Angeles and back three and a half times.

Pollution can make children fat, startling new research shows. A groundbreaking Spanish study indicates that exposure to a range of common chemicals before birth sets up a baby to grow up stout, thus helping to drive the worldwide obesity epidemic.

Moves to dispose of hundreds of tons of harmful insecticides and pesticides that were buried as a temporary measure in the 1970s remain on hold because of bureaucratic inertia and funding shortages.

The pristine Lofoten Islands off Norway's far north paint an idyllic image of tranquility, but beneath the surface is a roiling debate over the islands' resources, dividing fishermen, environmentalists and oil companies.

State officials are signing over mineral rights of public land to energy companies for a fixed minimum price.

Gov. Sarah Palin boasted this week that she stood up to Big Oil in advancing a decades-old ambition to bring natural gas to the Lower 48. But experts say she'll have to sit down with the oil giants if she wants her pipeline dream to become a reality.

The nuclear waste scandal involving leaky drums of "radioactive liquor" at a storage facility in a German salt mine called Asse II keeps growing. Commentators see consequences not just for some federal politicians, but also for Germany's ongoing nuclear debate.

After a six-month study, an independent review panel said a 2007 report that warned nine million people living in the Great Lakes were at risk from contaminated sites in and near the lakes was flawed.

In 2005 and 2006, winds off of Africa contained large amounts of dust, which scientists say may have dampened storms in the Atlantic Ocean. But this year, the air is clear and powerful storms are lining up to strike the U.S.

During 70 years employing thousands of Stratford-area residents, Raybestos-Manhattan Inc. and its successor, Raymark Industries, gave away asbestos-laced soil as landfill for parks, a soccer field and a world-class softball field.

Harriet McFeely believes exposure to formaldehyde gas in her Hastings modular home is responsible for the death of four pets and health problems she and her family have dealt with over the years.

A new study from Syracuse University professor Dr. Sandra Lane says lead poisoning is one of the reasons for repeat pregnancies among teenage moms.

The CDC estimates there are 76 million cases of food-borne disease in the United States annually. The vast majority of people experience it only as an unpleasant bout of diarrhea or abdominal pain, though an estimated 5,000 to 9,000 Americans die each year from food poisoning.

Tropical Storm Hanna sailed easily over the beaches of Carolinas' coast and moved inland Saturday, blowing hard and dumping rain in eastern North Carolina but causing little damage beyond isolated flooding as it quickly headed north toward New England.

Far-reaching Tropical Storm Hanna drenched flood-plagued Haiti on Wednesday, adding to the miseries of a country that has lost more than 100 lives to mudslides and flooding since mid-August.

A tropical storm with hurricane ambitions, Hanna could be saving its most powerful punch for late Saturday afternoon and early evening, weather forecasters said Friday.

Hurricane Ike barreled toward the Turks and Caicos as a powerful Category 3 storm Saturday, prompting an exodus of tourists and locals from the normally idyllic Atlantic island chain.

It is likely that all refineries in Canada and the United States are seriously undercounting emissions because they follow an estimating protocol developed by the American Petroleum Institute and the US EPA.

Western companies are pushing to acquire vast stretches of African land to meet the world's biofuel needs. Local farmers and governments are being showered with promises.

The chemical is BPA or bisphenol A. Most of the research up to now has been in mice and rats. This latest study was done in monkeys and indicated possible brain damage at low amounts.