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U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy signed a proposed rule late yesterday meant to protect taxpayers from cleaning up hardrock mining pollution.

A Michigan nuclear power plant's request for a 20-year extension of its operating license has been halted.

The quickest way for the United States to get out of the Paris climate agreement would be to leave the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change altogether, according to a lawyer on President-elect Donald Trump's transition team.

A raisin producer can continue to seek compensation for crops surrendered to the government, according to a new court ruling.

After a monthlong trial brought in the hopes of settling a decadeslong water dispute between Florida and Georgia, both states are left where they started, with the appointed special master urging them to settle the issue outside of court.

Slawson Exploration Co. will pay a $2.1 million fine and spend about another $6 million to curb air pollution from its oil and gas operations in North Dakota under a tentative legal settlement announced yesterday with federal regulators.

Federal appellate judges grappled today with a long-running legal dispute over payments between power companies in Entergy Corp.'s Southeast operations.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today set an April date for the courtroom showdown over the Obama administration's carbon rules for new power plants.

Two people are facing federal charges over accusations that they tried to steal visitor fees from a collection tube at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon.

Fatalities from the wildfires in and near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee climbed to 13 this morning.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is proposing increased restrictions on abalone hunting next year but faces opposition from divers who say the changes would have a detrimental economic impact.

Yellowstone National Park officials report an abnormally high number of grizzly bear deaths, 55, caused by humans this year. Park officials believe that more bears are hunting livestock or challenging hunters over game, leading to confrontations with humans.

Federal judges today sided with federal regulators in a legal challenge to the license renewal proceedings for a North Carolina hydroelectric dam.

The American Chemistry Council announced the launch yesterday of a center to streamline corporate compliance with the overhauled Toxic Substances Control Act.

Tom Reynolds, who helped shape the Obama administration's environmental communications and was known for his aggressive messaging tactics at U.S. EPA, has landed a new job at Facebook.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) today said President-elect Donald Trump's appointment of lobbyists and corporate heavyweights to his transition team is not only prompting Senate Democrats to gear up for a fight, it's also worrying some Republicans.

The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology is receiving blowback for tweeting a Breitbart News Network article yesterday that claims the science behind climate change is in its "final death rattle."

U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy argued today that the Donald Trump administration won't be able to stop a shift to cleaner energy, but she cautioned the United States could miss out on opportunities to lead global climate change efforts.

Given President-elect Donald Trump's repeated skepticism — or outright rejection — of climate science, the League of Conservation Voters is looking for new allies in the next White House, urging Trump's three eldest children to turn their father's opinion around on climate change policies.

The Obama administration is defending its rejection of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site in Nevada to President-elect Donald Trump's transition team, documents obtained by E&E News show.

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