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President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has arrived at U.S. EPA headquarters.

U.S. EPA is again seeking to impose new pollution control requirements on Texas coal-fired power plants under its regional haze program, potentially triggering a high-stakes test of the incoming Trump administration's attitude toward air quality regulation.

President-elect Donald Trump is meeting in New York today with several leading contenders for top energy posts as he finalizes his Cabinet selections.

A Trump transition memo asking for the names of government staffers who attended climate change meetings is sending shock waves across the workforce.

The relentless hunter of U.S. EPA documents is now allowed inside the agency. Named last week to the Trump transition team, Christopher Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, will have access to EPA facilities and records that he's always prized.

China will assign "river chiefs" to the nation's waterways in Beijing's latest attempt to counter environmental degradation, according to the Xinhua news agency.

A burst of activity at a volcanic complex near the Chile-Argentina border has brought in curious scientists and worried governments.

The Wyoming Department of Transportation wants to further associate the Cowboy State with Yellowstone National Park by selling a new vanity license plate.

Springs that sustain Utah ranchers have gone dry after an oil sands project began on the outskirts of the Uinta Basin in the northeastern corner of the state.

An Arizona utility regulator proposed a rule change that would list nuclear energy as a renewable power source with solar and wind.

An entire class of victims of cheap oil has been almost completely ignored: trash scavengers.

A widely applied class of pesticides impairs bees' ability to extract the pollen from flowers necessary to fertilize crops, according to a new study.

Two prominent trade groups are questioning U.S. EPA's interpretation of the overhauled Toxic Substances Control Act ahead of an agency meeting on the law tomorrow.

U.S. EPA is setting a minimum age of 18 for people to use certain pesticides that aren't available to the general public, the agency announced.

About 100,000 people — mostly in remote and rural communities — are drinking water from utilities that have been aware of high lead levels but have failed to properly treat for them, according to an investigation by the USA Today Network.

U.S. EPA today formally declared that three areas of East Texas are failing to meet a key air quality standard, opening the door for opponents to challenge that decision in court.

Detection technology did not work for a pipeline rupture that spilled 176,000 gallons of crude oil into a creek about 150 miles from the Dakota Access oil pipeline protests, according to the pipeline operator.

The Block Island Wind Farm, the first fully operational U.S. offshore wind farm installment, started up yesterday off the Rhode Island coast.

Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. likely will appoint its current refining boss as new CEO as current boss Rex Tillerson hurtles toward the State Department.

Miles Lord, a federal judge in Minnesota whose two-decade career left a lasting impact on state and federal environmental policy, has died at the age of 97.

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