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The Trump team is actively looking to fill several key White House energy and environmental slots, according to a source close to the administration.

The Commerce Department is distancing itself from a climate change doubter who was listed as a member of the department's transition team before President Trump took office.

For years, when spring rolled around in St. Louis, Mich., songbirds dropped to the ground, dead.

The energy world is laser-focused on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as former Chairman Norman Bay prepares to leave the agency tomorrow, erasing a quorum and commissioners' ability to approve natural gas pipelines or settle proposed mergers.

President Trump's U.S. EPA spokesman today downplayed concerns about what's been portrayed as a rocky transition at the agency.

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Republicans today pushed through President Trump's nomination of Scott Pruitt to be U.S. EPA administrator over Democrats' objections and boycott of the vote for the second day in a row.

Recent radiation readings from a damaged reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have risen to their highest level since the plant's meltdown almost six years ago.

Southern California's air quality board is set to implement a pollution-reduction plan today that will depend on voluntary action by ports, warehouses and rail yards.

The paperwork for a long-awaited settlement between an Alaska gas company and the Department of Homeland Security has been lost, according to the Justice Department.

Pittsburgh's City Council wants the city's water and sewer authority investigated after a boil-water warning affected about 100,000 residents.

The Air Force has developed a five-year program to treat water contamination near a base in Colorado that has seeped into residents' wells, an official told El Paso County commissioners yesterday.

California's Sierra Nevada snowpack is at a welcome, drought-busting 173 percent of average, state water managers said yesterday.

President Trump's threat to cut federal funding for the University of California, Berkeley, could endanger billions of dollars in energy research contracts for the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which the university operates.

An oil spill near an Exxon Mobil Corp. rig in Australia's Bass Strait is under investigation by federal regulators.

The prime minister of Japan is considering increasing energy imports from the United States as he prepares to meet with President Trump, according to two sources familiar with the plan.

Duke Energy Corp. has told residents near its coal ash pits in North Carolina that they must give up the option to sue over future water problems if they want extra compensation from the utility.

Protesters of the Dakota Access oil pipeline who set up a new camp on private land undermined the efforts of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to stop the project, according to Chairman Dave Archambault II.

A court in Colorado has ordered a rancher to be jailed after he battled mosquitos with pesticides that drifted over into his neighbor's organic farm.

A federal judge has tossed out one of the first large class-action lawsuits filed against the state of Michigan for its handling of the Flint water crisis.

A federal judge this week denied Murray Energy Corp.'s request for a reimbursement from the federal government for its lawsuit against U.S. EPA over coal-industry job losses.

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