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Top environmental groups have hired a former aide to Senate Democratic leaders for lobbying help.

The Center for Western Priorities today launched a $500,000 ad campaign aimed at discouraging Congress from reforming the Antiquities Act, with its first television ad airing in the Washington, D.C., media market.

The top Democrat on the House Education and the Workforce Committee today encouraged teachers to throw out a book titled "Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming."

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke today joined the chorus of officials on Capitol Hill and in the department who are concerned about the lack of assistant secretary nominations.

Congress' expanded use of the Congressional Review Act to roll back Obama-era rules could lead federal agencies to push up their rulemaking timelines, an expert on regulations said.

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — The former head of environmental justice at U.S. EPA on Friday warned that proposed cuts to the agency's budget would be "devastating" to minority and low-income communities.

As President Trump pushes forward with a budget request that calls for massive cuts to U.S. EPA, there's a surprising place in the federal government where environmental research is thriving: a small, quiet corner of the Department of Defense.

Ten states and multiple environmental groups are suing the Department of Energy for blocking efficiency standards they say are critical for reducing air pollution.

The Supreme Court's decision this morning to continue hearing litigation over the Clean Water Rule could mean justices see the case as relevant no matter what President Trump decides to do with the regulation.

As drought and climate change ravage the West, many are looking for answers to the region's deepening water problems in Marc Reisner's prophetic 1986 masterpiece, "Cadillac Desert."

A year after Vietnam's worst-ever environmental disaster, recovery has been slow and anger has endured as sea life remains sparse.

In addition to political parties and candidates, Russian hackers appear to have targeted a small environmental website in New Mexico.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources sent far fewer criminal cases to the attorney general's office last year, according to state records.

A bill to lower costs for home rooftop solar panels moved forward yesterday in the Nevada Legislature.

After years of frustration with scandals and poor management of the Oregon Department of Energy, new legislation in the state Legislature has reopened contentious debate on the agency's future.

The Utah Supreme Court upheld a decision yesterday allowing state officials to deny licenses to Tesla Inc.

The Trump administration's refusal to ban a pesticide linked to health issues could affect the mostly Hispanic children of undocumented immigrants who live near the farms where they work to pick the pesticide-covered produce.

Rising water levels at a uranium mine near the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park have conservationists concerned about potential contamination.

Nestlé's piping of water from a national forest in California has sparked protests from activists angry that the company pays no fees for water rights.

The federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement isn't doing enough to oversee state spending on coal mining cleanups, the Interior Department's inspector general said in an audit released yesterday.

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