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The Trump administration yesterday asked a federal court to toss a lawsuit challenging the president's requirement that agencies scrap two regulations for every new one created.

In a win for environmentalists, a federal court today tossed a George W. Bush-era rule exempting animal feeding operations from certain pollution reporting requirements.

Opponents of transferring federal land to states often argue that the parcels will be sold to the highest bidder. But how much ends up in private hands remains an open question.

Chinese officials today criticized the city of Shanghai for its lax efforts to improve the environment and punish polluters.

Alaskan Arctic policy adviser Craig Fleener had comments taken out of context by Russian media after attending a conference there last month.

The pesticide industry currently uses a small amount of biopesticides — or bacteria and biochemicals derived from plants to kill unwanted pests — but that use is projected to grow a good deal in the next few years.

Louisiana could pay as much as $3.1 million to get 90,000 tons of sediment, including some contaminated with toxic chemicals, removed for a new drainage pump station and storm surge barrier in New Orleans.

Almost a year after a chemical warehouse fire in Houston, there has been little progress in finding out more about the thousands of buildings holding hazardous materials across the city.

Despite regulations, asbestos is still linked to cancer-related deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Subsistence fishermen, tribes and sport fishermen are consuming large amounts of contaminated fish without adequate health warnings from U.S. EPA, the agency's internal watchdog found.

The chairman of mining company Rio Tinto is in hot water due to slow progress in increasing the diversity of the company's board.

NASA has 65 spacecraft transmitting data, and the agency thinks its data streams could be hacking targets.

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration is restructuring its staff to fill empty "critical positions," according to an email sent to agency staff.

If the Trump administration follows through on its push to reopen the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project in Nevada, it will likely be challenged by a dearth of scientific expertise on the topic in the federal government.

Important ice samples from the Canadian Arctic were lost earlier this month when a freezer malfunctioned in a University of Alberta lab.

Polar bears have a new climate change effect to contend with: shifting wind patterns.

The National Farmers Union today asked the White House to maintain the Obama administration's commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions under the Paris Agreement, citing the threats climate change poses to agriculture.

The Trump administration has been urging its allies to support "clean coal" technology, most recently at meetings of the Group of Seven industrialized nations.

Four lawyers who work at the Guantanamo Bay prison filed a lawsuit yesterday against the Department of Defense for allegedly exposing them to elevated risks of cancers and health issues through forcing them to work on contaminated sites.

A U.S. district court ruled late last month that an Idaho group does not need a U.S. Forest Service permit to hold a wolf and coyote hunting contest on federal land.

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