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A West Virginia federal judge's order requiring U.S. EPA to evaluate coal industry job losses imposes "substantive obligations" and has "no basis in the statute," attorneys for the agency argued in a filing yesterday.

More than 7,500 pages of emails and other records released today under a court order from U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's time as Oklahoma attorney general show he and his office had a familiar if not symbiotic relationship with oil and gas companies.

The European Union has drafted a plan to ban raw ivory imports by July 1.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) is refusing to work with Democrats on a controversial transportation law and instead is demanding it be repealed.

A Kentucky state Senate committee has unanimously voted to end the Environmental Quality Commission, a body that has worked as a forum for important environmental issues and advised the governor and state regulators.

A key facet of scientific experiments is that they are supposed to be replicable, but science is facing a "reproducibility crisis."

America's dams are showing their age and are in need of repair.

Yielding to requests from power producers and a state regulatory agency, U.S. EPA is adding another 60 days to the public comment period on a proposed regional haze plan for Texas that would affect 14 coal- and gas-fired plants.

SolarCity, the nation's leading installer of rooftop solar panels, reached long-term lease agreements with dozens of homeowners shortly before or even after they defaulted on mortgages.

The Trump administration will soon give its first firm indication of where it stands on a key element of the federal renewable fuel standard, and industry groups are jostling to be heard.

Climate-change-induced hot weather has been a large cause of the chronic shortfalls in Colorado River flows, according to a new study.

More than 300 scientists critical of climate research asked President Trump today to urge withdrawal from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, arguing regulations on carbon dioxide have no environmental benefits.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission yesterday sued a Houston oil-field equipment manufacturing company over allegations that it fired a black employee who complained about racial harassment.

North Dakota has spent millions of dollars monitoring and patrolling the Dakota Access pipeline protests, and yesterday, the state attorney general said it is likely the state will sue the federal government.

The FBI allowed its informants to participate in "otherwise unlawful activity" during the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, according to testimony at the second standoff trial.

Officials are offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to the recovery of 10,000 rounds of ammunition that were stolen from Crater Lake National Park in Oregon earlier this month.

While humans have been moving away from forests for decades, a new study suggests forests in the United States are moving away from humans, too.

A U.S. Park Police officer fired at a vehicle in Southeast Washington, D.C., this morning after a suspect rammed the officer's car.

Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) wants President Trump to undo the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, calling its creation a "grave injustice" to the state.

Fundraising reports show a significant advantage for the Republican Governors Association over its Democratic counterpart heading into 2017 and 2018, when two-thirds of governorships will be up for election.

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