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Republican Rep. John Shimkus is having a big year.

Practically speaking, the battle over U.S. EPA's regulations on power plant mercury emissions is all but over. Legally, however, some unfinished business may remain: Was it lawful for the agency to rely heavily on so-called health co-benefits to help justify those regulations?

The Council on Environmental Quality's climate change guidance released this week adds a new element to battles that are largely playing out in courts over the scope of federal agencies' environmental reviews of projects.

Massive Lake Okeechobee has long played a role in the fragmentation — and restoration — of the Everglades. As algae blankets beaches around Florida this year, the lake is once again at the heart of a fight for more infrastructure.

Once derided as thieves, about 240 waste collectors have been hired to clean the city streets during this year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Drivers in Japan can now power their hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles with biogas from sewage, thanks in part to a $12 million research project by the Japanese government.

Theresa May, the new British prime minister, has rewritten rules to allow people who live near hydraulic fracturing sites to get cash payments as part of a profit-sharing plan.

A new study suggests that climate change will mean fewer records will fall at this year's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Some homeless and impoverished people in San Francisco are able to scrape by trading cans for cash, but their way of life may be threatened.

Water levels in Long Island's 15-mile Peconic River are the lowest they've been all year, an ominous signal of a long-term drought.

Florida officials are stressing that it's safe to travel to the Sunshine State amid concerns about how the Zika virus will affect tourism.

U.S. EPA has rejected administrative requests for reconsideration of an array of startup and shutdown issues in its regulations for power plant mercury emissions.

The oil academic who helped arrange a 1998 deal between the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its competitor countries died last week.

Over 22 days, the Oceti Sakowin Youth & Allies ran some 2,000 miles to Washington, D.C., from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation on the border of North and South Dakota to protest the Army Corps of Engineers' approval of the Dakota Access pipeline.

Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) will get $4 million in federal grant cash to help reduce planes' emissions.

Scientists are raising an alarm about the dangers posed to the climate by burning peatlands.

A bipartisan group of leaders in Louisiana, where oil companies employ roughly 300,000 people, are breaking the state's political orthodoxy in a series of environmental lawsuits against the industry.

A federal court in Washington state last week ordered U.S. EPA to revise water quality standards for toxic substances by next month.

The Interior Department is proposing to conduct new environmental scrutiny of a large New Mexico coal mine following litigation from environmentalists.

Since settlers arrived in Iowa centuries ago, farmers have stripped out Midwestern prairie to plant their fields and keep native plants from choking their crops.

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