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Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee today launched a new attack on the Obama administration's Clean Water Rule as legal challenges continue to work their way through the courts.

Industry leaders, lawmakers and transportation policy specialists are hailing the Obama administration's guidelines for autonomous vehicles as a strong signal of government support for a technology that could improve road safety.

Meet U.S. EPA's new standards for airborne lead, which are the same as the agency's existing standards for the toxic metal.

Donald Hodel was head of the Energy Department before President Reagan hired him to lead the Interior Department. "Being secretary of Energy was a lot easier," he said in a recent interview.

One week from today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will host highly anticipated arguments in the unpredictable litigation over President Obama's signature climate change rule. Twenty-seven states — not including Nevada, which filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of state challengers — and dozens of industries and labor groups are challenging the rule. U.S. EPA's allies include another 18 states, cities, greens and industry groups. It will play out over 218 minutes next Tuesday.

The Philippines is planning to suspend a dozen mines as the Southeast Asian nation continues its environmental crackdown on the industry.

Just days before a U.N. conference on ivory trade is scheduled to begin, the African nation of Botswana said it will not support bids on sales of ivory.

Bill Bissett, president of the Kentucky Coal Association, will resign at the end of next month to lead the Huntington Regional Chamber of Commerce in West Virginia.

The director of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources' Division of Oil and Gas plans to step down while the state is wrangling with some of the world's largest oil companies over marketing the state's North Slope gas.

Pennsylvania is extending a ban on oil and gas drilling in state forests for five years.

The sinkhole leaking millions of gallons of contaminated water from a Mosaic Co. fertilizer facility in Florida will cost between $20 million and $50 million to fix, according to company officials.

The Coast Guard along with local officials are looking into reports of oil sheen on waters and strong odors in a Northern California community.

Chicago is resisting efforts to replace lead pipes with nontoxic alternatives, even as other cities move to protect their drinking water supplies.

U.S. EPA is set to advance a draft policy assessment for its review of the primary ambient air quality standard for nitrogen dioxide.

Chinese security researchers were able to take remote control of a Tesla Model S from 12 miles away.

In an effort to offset the electricity used in its Mesa, Ariz., data facility, Apple Inc. has built a 300-acre solar power plant in Florence, Ariz.

Three years ago, President Obama announced a $9.7 billion plan to double electricity access in Africa. But less than 5 percent of the new power generation promised has actually been generated.

UNITED NATIONS — Last year's landmark Paris climate agreement is all but assured to take force in 2016 after the European Union announced this morning that it would become a party to the deal this year.

Prosecutors in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge case are arguing that Ammon Bundy planned on occupying federal property for an extended period of time.

A judge in Texas has tossed out around 20,000 cases against BP PLC filed by residents who blame the oil giant for illnesses after a 2010 chemical release.

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