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Secretary of Defense James Mattis' views on climate change could impact not only the Pentagon's work, but also the State Department's related strategies and planning, according to a former Defense Department official.

Legendary ornithologist Chandler Robbins, whose career as a federal scientist spanned nearly eight decades and was the genesis of songbird conservation, died Monday. He was 98.

The Trump administration is not considering a carbon tax, an official said after a White House press briefing yesterday in which press secretary Sean Spicer declined to rule it out.

Major environmental groups have a strategy for countering President Trump: all-out war.

The Interior Department never intended to suspend all Twitter activity after the National Park Service shared tweets about President Trump's inauguration turnout, according to internal emails released to E&E News today.

A controversial bill that would allow more toxic chemicals to be sent into rivers and streams in West Virginia cleared another hurdle yesterday.

A bill to ban hydraulic fracturing in Maryland will proceed to the Senate floor.

A recent study in Florida found that people living in counties containing Superfund sites were 6 percent more likely to be diagnosed with cancer than people living in counties without them.

The Coast Guard yesterday wrapped up cleanup operations for an oil well spill south of New Orleans.

An Army Corps of Engineers fact sheet on the risks of dredging to coral and marine life at Port Everglades in Florida included wrong and incomplete information.

When Milwaukee announced plans last year to require residents to pick up the tab for replacing lead water pipes under their properties, activist Robert Miranda got mad and then got busy digging into the city's archives.

Wondering whether solar power might be viable for your roof? Google wants to provide an answer.

California today is expected to pass the nation's strictest methane emissions restriction.

A panel led by former heads of the Coast Guard and U.S. EPA yesterday called for America to increase its strategic commitment to the Arctic or risk getting left behind by other nations that also have interests in the region.

A vintage clothing store owner in San Francisco was charged yesterday with nine counts of selling endangered skins, including items made from jaguar and snow leopard.

A federal appellate court has granted U.S. EPA's motion to revisit a disputed portion of its initial regional haze reduction plan for Texas and Oklahoma, while turning back a bid by opponents to scrap the rule entirely.

Trash from across the ocean is washing up on the beaches of national parks in Alaska.

California farmers who received their irrigation estimates from federal water managers yesterday say rainstorms that swept the state should have resulted in larger allocations.

The conservative Sutherland Institute this week launched a new television ad campaign and website urging federal officials to rescind the Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah.

Democrat Ken Salazar, an Obama-era Interior secretary and a veteran of Colorado politics, said he will not run for governor in 2018.

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