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A Washington state jury failed to reach a verdict yesterday on charges against an activist who coordinated a protest that stopped the flow of millions of barrels of crude oil.

A newly filed lawsuit accuses U.S. EPA of illegally rescinding a rule to reduce mercury discharges from dental offices just hours after President Trump took office.

Over 1,700 residents in Flint, Mich., who say U.S. EPA mismanaged the 2015 lead water crisis have sued the government, seeking class action status.

One of the defendants facing misdemeanor charges stemming from the 41-day occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge last year filed a motion yesterday to get U.S. District Judge Anna Brown off the case.

Environmentalists today asked a panel of federal judges to strike down the Department of Energy's approval of a liquefied natural gas export terminal in Texas.

A federal appeals court today breathed new life into a challenge by environmental groups to U.S. EPA's registration of nearly 400 pesticides.

The number of alternative government Twitter accounts has reached 60 since Interior Department employees were ordered in mid-January to stop posting from a National Park Service account.

The world's most endangered porpoise now numbers only 30, according to a new report that calls for Mexico to permanently ban all gill nets in the Gulf of California and better enforce fishing rules.

Ongoing efforts by Western states to save prairie dogs are too weak and inconsistent to adequately protect the keystone species and their grassland habitat, according to a new report by an environmental group.

Endangered Species Act experts doubt that President Trump's executive order limiting regulations will prevent the government from issuing rules to remove animals or plants from the endangered and threatened species lists.

National wildlife refuge managers say last year's armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon has left them feeling vulnerable to outside threats, according to a government watchdog group's survey.

Illegal immigration may not be the only thing stopped by President Trump's proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Environmental Defense Fund's political arm has hired two veteran Democratic aides as outside lobbyists, according to disclosure records.

A former campaign aide to President Trump is acting in the top slot at the Justice Department's Environmental and Natural Resources Division.

The new leaders of the Interior Department's communications team formally introduced themselves to reporters yesterday evening.

A Bureau of Land Management agent who could potentially provide key testimony in the upcoming trials of renegade rancher Cliven Bundy and his followers was the subject of a recent unrelated inspector general investigation into ethical violations, E&E News has confirmed.

Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R) unexpectedly reversed his long-running efforts to dispose of 3.3 million acres of federal lands, announcing early this morning that he would kill legislation he had introduced just last week.

President Trump's pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget, Rep. Mick Mulvaney, is headed to the Senate floor amid bipartisan concerns about his hard-line fiscal views.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell expects the chamber to send President Trump a resolution voiding the Interior Department's Stream Protection Rule today.

Stan Meiburg has gone into academia.

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