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Farmers and agribusinesses that support Trump administration efforts to shrink U.S. EPA are starting to see a downside: A smaller agency could mean longer delays in pesticide approvals.

The White House today announced a slate of new lawyers, including top conservative attorneys, former government lawyers and former Capitol Hill staffers.

Environmental groups, lawmakers and national security advocates are trying to pre-empt any administration move to soften fuel economy standards by warning that such action would be caught up in lengthy litigation and create uncertainty for automakers.

Katie Ahlfeld opened a steel tank on a recent Tuesday to reveal one of the Smithsonian Institution's prize possessions: a 26-foot giant squid from the Gulf of Mexico.

Former U.S. EPA boss Bill Ruckelshaus is warning the Trump administration: Voters will be "up in arms" if EPA doesn't do its job.

In his 1981 inaugural address, President Reagan famously said: "Government is not the solution to the problem; government is the problem."

President Trump's plan for channeling the late Justice Antonin Scalia's views into an effort to overhaul the Obama administration's contentious Waters of the U.S. rule might lead to another legal quagmire.

Two Bangladeshi men seeking asylum in Japan worked on cleaning up radioactive contamination from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant under a false promise that they would be given permission to stay in the country longer, according to media reports.

Poachers shot and killed a rare white rhinoceros in a French zoo in what is likely the first time in Europe a captive rhino has been attacked and killed.

Brazil's federal environmental agency, Ibama, went public with a database yesterday that tracks timber logging to market.

The Florida Senate advanced a bill yesterday that would prohibit oil and gas hydraulic fracturing in the state.

A CSX freight train transporting hazardous materials struck a vehicle on the tracks and derailed yesterday, spilling sulfuric acid.

The Army Corps of Engineers' civil works program may not be immune from potential budget cuts to civilian agencies under the Trump administration, Commanding General and Chief of Engineers Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite said this morning.

U.S. EPA wants to explore the possibility of settling a tangle of legal challenges to its regional haze rule for Arkansas.

Brown tree snakes have decimated bird populations on the island of Guam, and scientists say the invaders may be hurting the forest.

The Department of Agriculture has ordered a zoo in Dade City, Fla., to stop its tiger cub swimming encounters and pay a fine of $21,000 for exposing the animals to "rough and excessive public handling."

South Florida water managers may allocate money for python hunters to reign in the invasive Burmese pythons that have taken hold in the Everglades.

Lights illuminating the Statue of Liberty went out for more than an hour yesterday, prompting metaphorical reactions from the internet and a simple explanation from the National Park Service.

The threat of wildfires remains high in the Plains, where fires have already killed six people, forced thousands to evacuate and destroyed buildings.

A Forest Service law enforcement officer who was killed by a bear in Montana in June was riding a mountain bike and struck the bear at a high rate of speed, investigators have found.

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