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Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp appears to be out of contention for a Trump administration Cabinet post as interviews for top jobs continue.

Sen. Jeff Sessions managed to slow legislation this year that was aimed at strengthening the Freedom of Information Act.

Former Republican Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is tapping into a vast network of Washington insiders, former staffers and supporters from his presidential bids as he prepares for congressional vetting to lead the Energy Department.

President-elect Donald Trump's choice of billionaire investor Carl Icahn to advise on regulatory reform has upped the ante for his promised regulatory overhaul.

Will Ryan Zinke become the first nomination casualty of the incoming Trump administration?

China has named more than 20 companies that it says broke environmental rules during a smog outbreak this week.

An enormous pile of garbage washed ashore on an island close to Shanghai after two ships allegedly released more than 100 tons of trash into the Yangtze River.

Oregon is expected to have a legislative session next year dominated by debate on a statewide transportation bill, but one lawmaker wants to shift the focus to water.

New Jersey lawmakers passed an environmental amendment to appear on next year's ballot.

West Virginia's environmental head announced yesterday he would quit the position for a post with the state's Air National Guard.

The city of Portland, Texas, wants Exxon Mobil Corp. to move the proposed location of a project to build the largest ethylene cracker plant in the world.

Nearly 300 highly hazardous pesticides, or HHPs, are regularly sprayed across industrialized and developing nations alike, a prominent advocacy group announced this week.

A pipe is seeping contaminated groundwater from an old coal ash pond in North Carolina into a nearby lake, state officials have said.

U.S. EPA yesterday issued a Clean Water Act compliance order to the Navajo Nation's Utility Authority, asking the tribe to address an ongoing sewage spill into the San Juan River.

The decadelong effort to re-engineer California's main water delivery system entered its final phase yesterday with the release of key environmental documents from state and federal regulators.

Uber Technologies Inc. ended its autonomous car service in San Francisco on Wednesday after a dispute with California officials over whether the self-driving cars were authorized to drive in the state.

The nation's top coal producer published yesterday its plan for escaping bankruptcy.

West Texas is shot through with old oil wells, some drilled more than a century ago. Once abandoned, fluids can seep to the surface and leak into local groundwater, and, in rare cases, the ground can sink or collapse.

A Montana company is one step closer to starting work on a $1 billion energy storage project in the state that would supplement energy from wind turbines and other sources, according to documents released yesterday by federal regulators.

Hydraulic fracturing benefits local communities, according to a study by the University of Chicago.

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