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President-elect Donald Trump is set as early as next month to pick a replacement for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, but that's just the start of what could be an overhaul of the court and environmental law.

It took almost the entire Obama presidency to write, but the Stream Protection Rule released today likely faces the Republican ax after Donald Trump moves into the White House next month.

A 5.8 magnitude earthquake in Ecuador yesterday killed at least two people, injured 15 and halted production at the Esmeraldas oil refinery, according to officials.

U.S. EPA will launch a rulemaking that could lead to tighter emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks by the 2024 model year, the agency said today in responding to a petition by air quality regulators in Southern California and other states.

The data that Tesla Motors Inc. has collected from its Autopilot-equipped vehicles could give it an advantage over competitors.

U.S. EPA's enforcement division brought in nearly $6 billion in penalties for environmental violations in fiscal 2016, the agency announced yesterday in an annual report.

Dave Archambault II, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, has had a busy year.

Turkey and Russia seem likely to maintain diplomatic relations — and work together on energy projects — despite the assassination of Russia's Turkish ambassador yesterday evening.

Officials ceremonially broke ground today on what they say will be the largest military solar installation in the Northeast.

A 116-year-old bird census, which began as a conservation effort, is now tracking the effects of climate change on avian species.

Last year's powerful El Niño event, compounded with climate change, warmed the planet and may have fueled the spread of the Zika virus in South America, a new study claims.

Police arrested the owner of two Chicago-area recycling outlets yesterday, charging him with fraud for allegedly dumping and burying hazardous electronic waste.

Seven hedge fund executives were charged yesterday in a fraud case linked to a 2012 Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion that killed three workers.

U.S. EPA acted reasonably when it approved a program for certifying soybean oil used in Argentinian biodiesel production, a federal court ruled today.

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette (R) today filed charges against four more employees in connection with the Flint, Mich., water crisis.

Texas officials and utilities are opposing U.S. EPA's bid to withdraw the portion of a regional haze rule entangled in litigation.

Oral arguments in the legal battle over U.S. EPA's latest ground-level ozone standard will be delayed by two months, from Feb. 16 until April 19, under an order issued late yesterday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Under the feet of the indigenous Atacamas people in South America lies a modern-day treasure: lithium.

Chemicals that can "decimate" the bee and butterfly populations could be banned in Chicago under an ordinance introduced by Alderman Ray Lopez (D).

Seven businesses and environmental groups today filed an intent to sue U.S. EPA under the Clean Water Act for what they call the agency's "failure to perform its duty" by responding to Ohio's and Michigan's proposed impaired water lists.

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