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The U.S. shale drilling rate has reached an 18-month high, but the spike has left a record number of unfinished wells in the country's largest oil field, the Permian Basin in West Texas.

John Watson, the CEO of Chevron Corp., said climate change is real and should be addressed, but downplayed any scientific consensus about the issue.

Harvard University scientists are planning an experiment to test aspects of geoengineering, a method of artificially cooling the climate by purposely altering the atmosphere and natural ecosystems.

Roger Martella, a former U.S. EPA attorney who helped lead the legal fight against the Obama administration's signature climate rule, is leaving his law firm for a corporate job.

Automakers have dropped their lawsuit to make U.S. EPA reconsider lowering emissions and mileage requirements.

Federal judges this week asked for more information on whether industry litigants have legal standing to challenge U.S. EPA's 2015 hazardous waste recycling rule.

Massive containers full of coal ash from China, Poland and India come to the United States through the Port of Virginia. Companies use it in road projects, concrete and wallboard.

More than 1,200 bison were killed this winter in Yellowstone National Park.

Officials in West Virginia are investigating a coal slurry leak into a stream in Boone County.

Honeybees in the United States aren't getting any healthier, despite a Department of Agriculture report that showed 115,000 more honey-producing colonies in 2016, a pollinator protection group said today.

When the grass fire was first spotted in a vacant field early Sunday morning in Boulder County, Colo., it didn't come as much of a surprise to state and local fire officials, who quickly mobilized hundreds of firefighters to battle the blaze.

The Labor Department's Mine Safety and Health Administration announced today it wanted to delay new examination requirements at non-coal mines.

The Interior Department is working on repealing Obama-era changes to how coal, oil and natural gas are valued to calculate federal royalties.

The Congressional Leadership Fund is doubling down on its opposition to Jon Ossoff, the leading Democrat in a special House election in Georgia.

The Environmental Law Institute has released a guide for navigating the Trump administration and Congress' deregulatory push.

The most important message to send the Trump administration and Capitol Hill right now: The 2009 finding that carbon dioxide endangers public health "must go."

The Bureau of Land Management should move to Colorado to be closer to the areas it manages, says Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.).

Justin Schwab, a member of President Trump's beachhead team for U.S. EPA, is now a senior attorney for the agency.

Bill Wehrum, whose nomination to be U.S. EPA's top air official was blocked during the George W. Bush administration, may get another shot at the job.

Carol Browner is an aspiring beekeeper.

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