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The U.S. Chemical Safety Board jumped to defend its work as news came yesterday that President Trump wanted to completely ax the agency.

Former U.S. EPA Administrators Carol Browner and Gina McCarthy took aim today at President Trump's budget plan for the agency.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, citing a lack of Senate-confirmed staff, is imposing an added two-month delay in the effective dates of five final rules issued in the waning days of the Obama administration.

Jim Moran doesn't expect the Trump administration to get much of its budget wish list.

The future of the federal ethanol mandate may boil down to a fight over numbers: No one seems to know how many businesses would be affected if officials tinker with the rules.

In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, proponents of the "keep it in the ground" movement appeared to be on a roll: The Paris climate agreement had been signed, President Obama had enacted a moratorium on new coal leases, and activists regularly made headlines for their efforts to push Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to commit to their cause.

The Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments in a high-stakes legal battle over a tiny waterfront lot that could affect how courts weigh whether government has illegally taken private property.

A man who allegedly killed rare butterflies could go to prison after being found guilty in a historic first in the United Kingdom.

The Maine Legislature will again consider this week whether to OK rules that would jump-start mining of copper, zinc, gold and silver deposits in the state.

The West Virginia Legislature on Saturday moved forward with a bill that would repeal a tax cut for wind power projects.

Under pressure from Gov. Kate Brown (D), the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission backed off its decision to allow gill netting in the Columbia River.

Water once again flowed down from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir through the Mountain Tunnel to fill California's Bay Area faucets last week.

On Friday, water flowed down a damaged Oroville Dam spillway at the start of a weeklong test to see if it can handle increased outflow as Northern California's snow begins to melt.

An Ohio manufacturer of manganese alloys is again suing U.S. EPA over stricter emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants.

After a Hilcorp Alaska natural gas pipeline has leaked into Cook Inlet for months, federal regulators want the company to inspect another one of its Alaska lines.

Statements by Defense Secretary James Mattis about the importance of planning for climate change have raised questions about how the Pentagon will handle that challenge.

Environmentalists are expecting the White House to zero out the government's estimate of the cost of global damage caused by the release of an additional ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

A federal judge last week dismissed a lawsuit from a Des Moines water utility that accused three northwest Iowa counties of allowing agricultural drainage districts to pump nitrate pollution into rivers used by the utility for drinking water supplies.

When raising cattle, ranching families need to be ready for coyotes and blizzards.

A suspension bridge used to access a popular wilderness area collapsed last week in east-central Idaho.

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