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Hundreds of people rallied in Boston this weekend to "stand up for science" in protest of President Trump's policies and in a sign of momentum for scientists organizing a march on Washington later this spring.

Roughly 60 volunteers eschewed the unseasonably warm Washington weather this weekend to huddle in a darkened conference room at Georgetown University for a presentation on the history of U.S. environmental policy and federal climate research.

LOXAHATCHEE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Fla. — Florida water managers are preparing to evict the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service this summer from a swath of Everglades that it's managed for 66 years.

Republican efforts to unwind several Obama-era energy and environmental regulations will move to the Senate when Congress returns from its Presidents Day recess next week.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is questioning whether his agency is empowered to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt — one of President Trump’s most controversial Cabinet-level picks — was expected to request an around-the-clock security detail from his agency, according to an internal agency email obtained by E&E News. Such protection would mark a dramatic increase from security given past administrators and could curtail resources available for EPA's criminal enforcement, according to former agency officials.

Older diesel cars will be banned from driving in Stuttgart, Germany, next year in an attempt to reduce pollution levels.

A movement to make a state park at Utah's famous Hole-in-the Rock is gaining traction.

A bill in the New Mexico Legislature would allow the state's Oil Conservation Division to penalize companies that pollute water.

The City Council of Longmont, Colo., will consider tonight making an official condemnation of a proposed state law that would make liable the state's local governments for paying oil and gas mineral rights holders the market value of the holdings if a municipal body bans hydraulic fracturing.

A bill in the Montana statehouse would ban oil and gas pipelines from crossing under rivers and lakes.

California Senate Leader Kevin de León introduced a bill that would require the state to get 100 percent of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2045.

A Texas state lawmaker has filed a bill that would require push alerts to phones during a chemical accident that could "substantially endanger human health or the environment."

The city of Pueblo, Colo., committed to become fully powered by renewable energy sources by 2035 following a City Council decision on Monday.

The dusty mounds of petroleum coke might be gone from Chicago, but while they were investigating the black piles, federal and city officials discovered what could be a more dangerous type of pollution.

The nine reservoirs that feed into Lake Oroville are filled to the brim after recent storms that have caused flooding in California. Officials are watching the waters and the skies, with more rain expected today.

The public will have another month to offer input on U.S. EPA's proposed changes to air pollution standards for a handful of publicly owned sewage treatment plants.

Americans broke the U.S. driving record last year, the fifth straight record-breaking year, driving 3.218 trillion miles on public roads, according to the Federal Highway Administration.