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Water managers are considering a new plan to restore the Everglades: flushing millions of gallons of water deep underground near Lake Okeechobee.

The House Agriculture Committee approved two bills today to simplify the approval and application of pesticides.

House lawmakers introduced a bipartisan bill yesterday to reinstitute expired tax credits for multiple energy technologies left out of a 2015 budget deal.

House Democrats have introduced a bill to update the Safe Drinking Water Act and require U.S. EPA to hasten its review of lead and copper limits in drinking water.

Peabody Energy Corp. has bolstered its K Street roster, bringing on a former campaign aide for President Trump.

A band of conservative critics are trying to squash a Republican effort to reshape the party's policies on climate change.

The confirmation hearing for Judge Neil Gorsuch to be a Supreme Court justice will begin on March 20 and last up to four days, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said today.

At this time in 2016, courts were flooded with lawsuits over an Obama administration rule aimed at highlighting isolated wetlands and streams that would get automatic federal protection under the Clean Water Act.

The Senate backed Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) as White House budget director this morning in a largely partisan vote, clearing the way for an even more contentious battle over U.S. EPA administrator nominee Scott Pruitt.

President Trump today tapped Alexander Acosta, a former federal attorney and National Labor Relations Board member under President George W. Bush, to lead the Labor Department.

President Trump's nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt (R) for U.S. EPA administrator has become one of the most fierce and costly lobbying battles in his administration's early days.

West Virginia's Department of Environmental Protection said yesterday that an outage of parts of its computer system that lasted for over a week was not a result of hacking.

An audit of the South Carolina Conservation Bank slammed the agency's spending practices.

Farmers in Iowa are speaking out against a conservation tax credit that they say is shrinking property taxes and unfairly idling land.

California officials warned federal regulators years ago that communities near the Oroville Dam would not have enough time or warning to escape if the dam were to suddenly fail.

The fungicides used to fight blossom blight, brown spots and yellow leaves in apples could be hurting honey bees, according to a new study.

An Alpha Natural Resources coal preparation plant in West Virginia last week spilled a small amount of a chemical, the state Department of Environmental Protection confirmed yesterday.

Almost 325 organizations signed a letter urging new U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to make sure the Justice Department does its job when deciding on three potential mergers between chemicals companies.

Low oil prices and strict environmental regulations are pushing energy companies and governments to deal with the fact that some fossil fuels are going to be left in the ground.

Enbridge, the Canadian oil pipeline company, denied reports that the company's two 64-year-old natural gas pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac connecting lakes Michigan and Huron are losing their protective coating.

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