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All Interior Department public notices as well as most correspondence will require review by the agency's top policy office for the foreseeable future, according to a memo sent to agency officials this week.

President Trump yesterday announced a team of lawyers to handle issues dealing with compliance and ethics at the White House.

Tesla Motors Inc. CEO Elon Musk yesterday defended his advisory role to President Trump, saying "attacking him will achieve nothing."

Top State Department officials resigned yesterday, ahead of Rex Tillerson's expected confirmation to become the next secretary of State, The Washington Post reported today.

President Trump is looking for "high priority" infrastructure projects to speed through environmental reviews as part of his pledge to rebuild the country's roads, bridges and energy infrastructure.

A peat mining company won a major victory this week in a long-running Clean Water Act fight over its planned expansion into 530 soggy acres in northwest Minnesota.

U.S. EPA has made a rare finding of discrimination on the decades-old permitting of a power plant in Flint, Mich., according to the environmental law organization Earthjustice.

The Trump resistance is in full swing.

The leader of President Trump's U.S. EPA transition team wants to see the agency's 15,000-person staff axed to about 5,000 employees.

Conservation officers in Iowa are looking for a poacher who allegedly shot a bald eagle and removed its head and talons in Yellow Banks Park.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper's (D) pick to lead the state's Department of Environmental Quality appears to be heading for a rocky path toward confirmation.

More than 300 activists filled an annual environmental gathering in Annapolis, Md., yesterday to lobby for eco-friendly legislation in the state Assembly.

Members of the Florida Senate yesterday proposed legislation to purchase farmland south of Lake Okeechobee in an effort to end the toxic algae blooms that have devastated the coast.

A Georgia legislator was shot while traveling with several thousand dollars in donations for storm relief in the state.

German prosecutors are expanding their probe into Volkswagen's emissions cheating scandal, officials said today.

A handoff between foremen that went wrong might have contributed to the deadly Amtrak crash last April near Chester, Pa., according to documents.

Part of a train carrying coal derailed Wednesday in northern Colorado, with most of the 25 cars spilling their cargo, according to officials.

Ford Motor Co. CEO Mark Fields yesterday said he is hopeful President Trump will soften fuel economy rules after meeting with automakers this week.

Fires at plants across the globe are shrinking supplies and, surprisingly, benefiting oil refiners.

About 230 miles' worth of steel pipe, left in storage in southwest North Dakota since 2011, might now be deployed as the developers of the Keystone XL pipeline renew their efforts on the project.

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