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Ammon Bundy and Ryan Payne will be transferred to testify in the second trial for those charged in the takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

Chicago's Metropolitan Water Reclamation District and environmental groups have agreed to jointly monitor phosphorus discharge into the Chicago Area Waterway System, resolving a yearslong fight over the city's nutrient discharges.

The CEO of Ocean Cleanup, 22-year-old Boyan Slat, works to remove plastic from the ocean using a 62-mile-long device he designed as a teenager.

A powerful winter storm in Southern California yesterday flooded roads and freeways, set rainfall records, and stranded people in rising waters.

A deadly weekend weather system ravaged Southern states with severe thunderstorms and tornadoes.

Harvard University students plan to rally outside the office of the university's president today as part of the latest round of protests against newly sworn-in President Trump.

A new digital Sierra Club ad blasts U.S. EPA administrator nominee Scott Pruitt for failing to protect Oklahomans from coal ash.

Louisiana Republican Rep. Garret Graves, who oversaw an agency dedicated to coastal preservation and restoration in his home state, will now lead a House Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee that oversees some U.S. EPA water programs and other federal cleanup efforts.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) announced today that he will support Rex Tillerson to serve as President Trump's secretary of State.

Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) has gotten a boost from his biggest campaign donor as he looks to secure confirmation as the next secretary of the Interior.

It is unclear how Sonny Perdue, President Trump's secretary of Agriculture nominee and former Republican Georgia governor, would act on the environmental initiatives begun by former Secretary Tom Vilsack.

President Trump today nominated Heather Wilson, a former Republican congresswoman from New Mexico and the current president of a South Dakota mining college, to be secretary of the Air Force.

President Trump is likely to ask Democrat Cheryl LaFleur to lead the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission until Republican members are confirmed, according to a source close to the transition effort.

Federal environmental workers were glum this morning as they headed into their offices for their first workday under the Trump administration.

The National Park Service sports the usual disclaimer on its Twitter account, signaling that retweets are not endorsements.

The Trump administration is moving a "political team" composed of dozens of appointees into key Interior Department offices to help guide the transition of power, including two top officials working with Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.), President Trump's Interior secretary nominee.

President Trump's first wave of political staffers are heading into federal agencies today.

President Trump signed orders this morning to freeze federal hiring and withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. He called for both actions during the presidential campaign.

Indian scientists plan to send an expedition to the peak of Mount Everest to determine whether the devastating earthquake that shook Nepal in 2015 decreased the height of the mountain.

New West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (D) appointed former campaign adviser Larry Puccio to the state Water Development Authority board.

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