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Environmentalists praised the company, but also asked that it commit to more robust reforms to its plastic usage.

New York’s Alliance for Clean Energy is lobbying state lawmakers for more zero emission vehicles within next three years. One initiative of developing this new technology is Gov. Kathy Hochul support for electric school buses.

A plume of smoke and soot stretches for thousands of miles from the province of Quebec province across the Atlantic Ocean, as seen in satellite images from NASA.

Photographer Zied Ben Romdhane explores the mining region of Gafsa in southwest Tunisia and reveals the harshness of the area balanced with the humor of the inhabitants.

Artist Stefanie Nagorka is creating her own studio space of late in the aisles of Home Depot stores. She creates sculptures out of common building materials, and she hopes to produce a piece of original work in Home Depot stores in all 50 states. NPR's Susan Stone reports.

The Justice Department on Wednesday filed the first federal lawsuit over the massive Gulf oil spill. Government lawyers have sued BP, Transocean and seven other corporate defendants. The companies are accused of taking short cuts on safety.

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon dropped substantially in the first six months of this year, perhaps signaling a reversal after years of losses in the vast rainforest.

The clinic comes after six people came into contact with a rabid fox in the Eastwood neighborhood area.

Paul Tough's new book surveys the best new evidence on how to overcome the effects of poverty.

Some doctors are finding that virtual travel — to Venice, a Hawaiian beach or Africa — can open new worlds to people confined by low mobility, dementia or depression.