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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) has urged U.S. EPA to stop implementing some of its more controversial regulations.

President-elect Donald Trump has picked House Budget Chairman Tom Price (R-Ga.) to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

President-elect Donald Trump's transition team announced another member today of its so-called landing team for the Energy Department.

Dakota Access pipeline opponents have filed a class-action lawsuit against law enforcement officers alleging "excessive force" and violations of constitutional rights.

A transition aide to President-elect Donald Trump called this year for eliminating the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, consolidating the national labs and limiting research for "specific constitutional responsibilities."

President-elect Donald Trump has picked the longest-serving Cabinet member from the George W. Bush administration to lead the Transportation Department, according to media reports.

U.S. EPA, headed toward a likely court defeat and unable to reach a deal with opponents, is offering to pull the plug on a Texas cleanup plan intended to improve visibility in two major national parks by requiring new pollution controls on coal-fired power plants.

In the midst of its worst recession in decades, Brazil has little money for law enforcement agents charged with protecting the Amazon rainforest from illegal logging and poachers.

A Japanese utility said today that cooling water splashed on 10 employees working at a nuclear power plant in the town of Tsuruga.

A coal mining accident has trapped 22 miners below ground in northeast China in the latest in a series of industry accidents in the country.

China plans to cap total water consumption to ease shortages by improving efficiency and cutting waste, according to the state planning agency.

Officials in Arizona dedicated a memorial park and a hiking trail yesterday to 19 firefighters who perished while battling a particularly catastrophic wildfire in 2013.

A New York environmental conservation officer has been hospitalized with a gunshot wound he sustained while investigating reports of illegal hunting, according to authorities.

U.S. EPA finalized a rule yesterday to add a brominated flame retardant to the agency's Toxics Release Inventory, a public database that catalogues pollution discharges.

Stronger regulation of pesticides is the best way to reverse declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators, according to a group of scientists who suggested 10 measures to deal with the challenge.

The northern Sierra Nevada in California saw the wettest first two months of the water year since 1984, according the National Weather Service.

U.S. EPA has designated three areas in East Texas as in nonattainment for the 2010 sulfur dioxide standard, a step that could assume greater significance in light of the agency's retreat on regional haze regulations.

States suing to block U.S. EPA's latest ground-level ozone standard take a dim view of recently revised "exceptional events" guidance that the agency has touted as one route to meeting the more rigorous air quality threshold, according to a new court submission.