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The wait is on for President Trump's expected move to begin dismantling a major Obama-era climate rule.

Carol Browner, who was President Obama's top energy and climate adviser, isn't pleased with the Trump administration's early moves on climate change rules.

President Trump is considering Bill Cooper, a House staffer with years of experience lobbying for gas export companies, to head the Council on Environmental Quality, according to sources.

With increased scrutiny of the Trump administration's possible ties to the Kremlin, a long-running National Park Service effort to promote cultural and scientific connections between native groups in the United States and Russia could be targeted for elimination, budget experts say.

A new study shows that estimates of how much methane escapes from natural gas-fired power plants and oil refineries could be much too low, pointing to pollution from leaky industrial hardware.

Environmentalists and community groups yesterday accused U.S. EPA of trying to deprive them of their "well-deserved day in court" in a lawsuit over the agency's failure to respond to five civil rights complaints.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has frozen implementation of updated safety regulations for chemical plants, oil refineries and other industrial facilities, saying the delay is needed to consider an industry petition to scrap the rules.

A new industry-backed bill in the West Virginia Senate would eliminate most coal mine oversight and enforcement laws, adopted over the years after hundreds of miner deaths.

Groups in Oregon spoke out yesterday in support of two bills that aim to prevent, or at least mitigate, an ecological disaster in the Columbia River.

Environmentalists and lawmakers yesterday criticized the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources' handling of water regulation.

Committees in the Republican-controlled Minnesota House and Senate recently stripped out of a bill a provision aimed at reducing insecticides that are harmful to bees by granting greater authority to state regulators.

Ohio lawmakers have fast-tracked a bill that would weaken clean energy standards.

Monsanto Co. employees wrote scientific papers that regulators used to determine a chemical in the company's Roundup product does not cause cancer, according to farmers and others suing the company.

California officials announced yesterday that a reservoir in Contra Costa County will be shut down to allow for repairs after heavy inflows.

One worker was injured in a fire at an oil sands production site of Syncrude Canada Ltd. located in Alberta.

Chevron Corp. is cleaning up about 4,800 gallons of oil from a broken pipeline in Colorado.

The city of Vacaville, Calif., is being sued over chromium-6, a carcinogen that sickened Southern California residents as depicted in the movie "Erin Brockovich."

An energy consultant accused of forging documents to get state funding for a solar installation at two Oregon universities has a new alibi: He says his brother did it.

While Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser grew less concerned Monday afternoon as the forecast snow impact seemed to lessen, she got a call from President Trump asking for a briefing on storm preparations.

Parched koalas in Australia are changing their drinking habits as rising temperatures and less rainfall drive them to search for new sources of water, scientists say.

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