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Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm is joining the board of electric bus company Proterra.

California Democrats want to hike fuel taxes and car registration fees and charge zero-emissions vehicle owners $100 per year to fund $52.4 billion in transportation fixes.

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee today narrowly approved Alexander Acosta to become the next Labor secretary.

The Senate Agriculture Committee approved Sonny Perdue's nomination for Agriculture secretary today, with a sole member — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) — in opposition.

Legislation to revamp the membership of a key U.S. EPA advisory panel passed the House this morning, one day after the approval of a bill to limit how the agency uses science.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee passed dozens of energy and public lands bills by voice vote this morning.

An oil and gas lobbyist is joining U.S. EPA as associate administrator for congressional and intergovernmental relations, according to sources.

A U.S. EPA scientist said he has been "very saddened" by what he has seen so far at the agency under the Trump administration.

For nearly two hours, President Trump had a new critic: his own agency, U.S. EPA.

Environmental groups are taking the Trump administration to court over the recent approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.

U.S. EPA will not outlaw a commonly used pesticide, contradicting evidence the agency put forward last year that the chemical poses a risk to human health.

The Trump administration largely refuses to discuss hundreds of employees on the so-called beachhead teams, leaving the public in the dark about who holds many agency posts.

A prominent conservationist in Kenya said she was shot at as armed men set fire to a lodge near her home in the drought-stricken northern region this week.

Flooding rivers cut off roads and destroyed bridges on Australia's east coast yesterday after the remains of a powerful cyclone swept the region, forcing tens of thousands to evacuate their homes.

Japan's whaling fleet returned today from its monthslong trip to the Antarctic with a catch of over 300 minke whales despite protests from Australia.

An invisible flame from burning waste at a New Jersey landfill is injuring birds that fly through it and worrying environmental activists.

The Minnesota House yesterday passed an environmental spending bill that Republicans say can help "slow down the government spending spree."

A Pennsylvania state senator and gubernatorial candidate, Scott Wagner, has received criticism and ridicule after suggesting that heat from human bodies may be causing global warming.

One member of the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission fired by Gov. Kate Brown (D) this week said Brown dismissed three of the commissioners because they disobeyed her orders.

U.S. EPA is moving to further roll back implementation of new industrial safety regulations — this time for almost two years.

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