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For the third time in four years, a House panel has approved legislation to revamp U.S. EPA's handling and evaluation of the scientific research that undergirds key regulations.

A top environmental justice official has resigned at U.S. EPA, with others expected to exit amid concerns about the Trump administration's plans for the agency.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt sparked a political storm today, expressing doubts in a television interview over whether carbon dioxide is the main driver of climate change.

People who fled the Fukushima region in Japan after a nuclear plant meltdown six years ago are being told to return to their homes or they will lose housing subsidies.

A bill that would have required large-scale farms to disclose to the public when and where they spray pesticides and insecticides was rejected by the Hawaii House of Representatives yesterday.

A bill in the West Virginia House would exempt two-thirds of chemical storage tanks previously regulated by a safety law enacted after the Freedom Industries spill in the Elk River contaminated drinking water for hundreds of thousands of people.

South Carolina's Department of Health and Environmental Control board refused to ban experimental sea walls yesterday, rejecting recommendations from its own staff.

Over the last decade, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection's enforcement of air and water quality has fallen sharply as the agency's workforce has shrunk by nearly a third.

Several fuel tank cars are burning in northwestern Iowa after a freight train possibly carrying ethanol derailed.

A Louisville company is facing a potential municipal fine after it allowed paint to be poured down a storm drain, turning a local creek bright yellow.

Nobel Prize-winning chemist George Olah died in California on Wednesday at the age of 89.

Alaskans are fighting about procedure in a court battle over what the northernmost city in the United States should be called.

Volkswagen AG pleaded guilty in federal court today to criminal charges of rigging vehicles to cheat emissions tests.

Colorado's eastern half is either abnormally dry or in drought conditions, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor yesterday.

Wildfires burned though nearly 2 million acres of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas this week, destroying ranches and killing thousands of livestock.

Underwater heat waves sweeping through Australia's tropical coast are putting corals at risk for a second year of mass bleaching events.

An advocacy group has asked the Fish and Wildlife Service to reconsider a rule that would exempt captive primates of 11 threatened species from Endangered Species Act protections.

Hundreds of protesters this morning marched from the Army Corps of Engineers office in Washington to the White House, where they held a rally against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's support for both the coal industry and tribes in his home state is testing an early promise the former Montana congressman made to Native Americans.

Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch (R) said yesterday he would run for re-election in 2018 — followed by his office backing off the statement hours later.

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