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Larry Leventhal, a legendary Minnesota attorney who spent his career defending American Indian activists, died of pancreatic cancer in Minneapolis on Tuesday at the age of 75.

An aide to a Republican state lawmaker was fired yesterday after The New York Times reported he was behind a fake news site that accused Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton of election fraud.

Betsy DeVos, Michigan billionaire and President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Education secretary, has been roundly mocked for suggesting this week that schools may need guns to defend against grizzlies.

In Michigan and Ohio, all eyes are on U.S. EPA to decide how to protect the open waters of western Lake Erie from pollution.

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz doesn't foresee being a public servant again. His worst day on the job was when an explosion occurred at a nuclear waste site in New Mexico. And he's "gotten over" attention to his hair.

Some scientists worry that the Department of Energy's 17 national laboratories may lose funding under the incoming Donald Trump administration due to skepticism of climate change.

For Katherine Hammack, who works on energy and environmental issues for the Army, a big part of her job has been explaining the "why."

Career staffers are in line to take the helm of energy and environmental agencies while Donald Trump's incoming Cabinet officials await confirmations.

President-elect Donald Trump has requested that dozens of Obama administration officials to stay on in the new administration.

Farmers are looking for a champion in former Gov. Sonny Perdue, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Agriculture secretary.

A federal appeals court yesterday reinstated U.S. EPA's controversial "water transfers" rule, reversing a lower court ruling that struck down the George W. Bush-era regulation.

Members of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team critical of U.S. EPA have also been successful litigants against the agency, winning thousands of dollars in legal expenses.

A folksy Rick Perry made a bid for the support of Senate Democrats today by promising to defend the Department of Energy's climate-related science and innovation even if his boss, President-elect Donald Trump, wants to gut the department he's asked the former Texas governor to lead.

Six people have been found alive under the avalanche that covered an Italian hotel about two days ago, according to officials.

San Antonio plans to join a plan to allow the destruction of habitat used by endangered species in Bexar County, Texas, while working to preserve more land in other areas.

Transparency is a problem at the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, according to a new Portland State University study.

The San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona continues to struggle against the aftereffects of a decades-long pesticide spraying regime fronted by the U.S. government from 1961 until 1972.

U.S. EPA rejiggered its chemical reporting guidelines yesterday, forcing manufacturers to provide justification when they request that information on certain compounds be kept secret.

Natural gas and liquid hydrocarbons are leaking into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, according to federal regulators.

Central Arizona cities and their suburbs will be hit hardest if Lake Mead water levels continue to fall, according to a new report from Western Resource Advocates.

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