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A freshman House lawmaker plans to introduce a bill later this week that would eliminate U.S. EPA by the end of 2018.

The Senate Judiciary Committee today voted along party lines to advance the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be attorney general.

Seeing the name Gorsuch splashed across national headlines is giving U.S. EPA staffers a sense of déjà vu.

Department of Energy scientists are "anxious" that their research may be targeted, according to the outgoing director of DOE's Office of Science.

If confirmed, Judge Neil Gorsuch would bring a deeply skeptical view of the Chevron doctrine — a legal standard that often helps agencies win in environmental litigation — to the Supreme Court.

Democratic senators boycotted a committee vote today on the nomination of Scott Pruitt to be U.S. EPA administrator. "We're going to the gym," joked Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) as Democratic members of the panel passed the hearing room.

A bill in the Wyoming Legislature that would have fined utilities for using renewable energy sources died in committee Tuesday.

A Pennsylvania state order for 100,000 Pittsburgh residents to boil their tap water was made in "an abundance of caution," said Pittsburgh Water and Sewage Authority Executive Director Bernard Lindstrom.

A river of molten lava is gushing 70 feet from a Hawaii cliff into the Pacific Ocean.

A raucous crowd opposed to reopening the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage field shut down a public meeting on the subject yesterday.

U.S. EPA is moving ahead with publication of "findings of failure" for 15 states and the District of Columbia that have not turned in full plans for meeting the 2008 ozone air quality standards.

The autonomous vehicle developed by Google's parent company is ahead of the competition in both miles logged and rate of deactivations, road tests in California show.

In 2006, Volkswagen AG officials sought to bypass emissions regulations but did not have the technology. So they turned to German supplier Robert Bosch GmbH, a longtime partner, to provide code that would activate pollution controls only when being tested by inspectors, according to lawsuits in the United States and Germany.

A tweet from the Trump International Hotel Washington made a stir this week when it appeared to show the signature columns and triangular pediment of the White House seen from a hotel room window.

The Department of Defense released a new strategy for the Arctic yesterday that acknowledged the effect climate change has had on the region and promised to work to mitigate its impact on military operations.

The corpse of a marten that single-handedly shut down the Large Hadron Collider last fall is now on display at a Netherlands museum.

A utility company and a port have teamed up on plans to construct an $800 million liquefied natural gas plant and export terminal at a port in Louisiana.

An email sent by accident from a federal inspection team to a citizen activist has set off a wave of opposition in Plymouth, Mass., to the Pilgrim nuclear plant.

North Dakota officials arrested 76 protestors yesterday near a key bridge in the ongoing standoff over the Dakota Access pipeline.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will pay $1 million to settle a suit accusing the store of misleadingly labeling plastic products as "biodegradable" or "compostable," California prosecutors said yesterday.

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