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President-elect Donald Trump today announced that Betsy DeVos will be his pick to become the next Education Department secretary.

Democrats on Capitol Hill have peppered President-elect Donald Trump with calls to investigate his advisers, business dealings and transition effort.

NEW YORK — An hour before sunrise, Pierre Simmons pulled on his gloves, piled a few plastic bags in his shopping cart and set off down the empty streets of Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood.

When Dynegy Inc. released information about a coal ash storage pond at its Joppa, Ill., power plant, the resulting picture was unsettling: The pond had a "high hazard" ranking, meaning people could die in the event of a dike failure.

Breaking with other courts, the federal appellate court in Washington, D.C., has been adding an intermediate layer of review to determine whether agencies receive deference under the Chevron legal doctrine, according to a new report.

Ed Russo has been getting a lot of phone calls from environmentalists worried about President-elect Donald Trump. "They all want to know the same thing: 'What's going to happen, Ed? What are we going to do?'" Trump's longtime environmental adviser tells them to relax.

Police in Israel arrested 13 people suspected of arson Friday as firefighters continued to battle massive wildfires in the central and northern regions of the country.

The Japanese government has nearly doubled the compensation estimate for the 2011 nuclear disaster and subsequent decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi plant to more than 20 trillion yen ($177.51 billion).

Dredging the Houston Ship Channel will help the local economy by deepening the channel to allow larger ships, but the project has environmental benefits, as well.

Regulators in Alaska say they are tackling a growing number of tanker truck accidents in the nation's largest state, as three rollovers since September have leaked thousands of gallons of diesel into forests and wetlands.

A water rights battle is brewing between residents of Pecos, N.M., and a Texas oil and gas executive.

More than half the 15 species being delisted from Florida's newly approved Imperiled Species Management Plan are from the Florida Keys.

Regulators in South Carolina are testing alligator flesh for toxic chemicals after recent blood tests of the reptiles showed elevated levels of toxins.

William Baker has worked for four decades to advocate for the Chesapeake Bay.

U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy has agreed to an administrative challenge to the operating permit for a Tennessee Valley Authority coal-fired power plant.

Wildlife groups are among those concerned about plans to build dozens of giant wind turbines in western New York.

Two U.S. firms and their affiliates have reached a settlement to resolve allegations that they made false claims about federal dollars that were allocated to cleaning up the Hanford nuclear waste site.

A New York Supreme Court judge has ordered New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) to comply with a freedom of information request related to his investigation into Exxon Mobil Corp.'s record on climate change.

Supreme Court justices have invited the federal government to weigh in on the dispute between New Mexico and Colorado over last year's Gold King abandoned mine spill.

Wisconsin and four other states are asking a federal appellate court to throw out U.S. EPA's recent update to its Cross-State Air Pollution Rule.

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