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Worries that U.S. EPA's Chicago office may be on President Trump's budget chopping block have triggered backlash from agency employees and Capitol Hill lawmakers alike.

A panel of judges grilled the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today on its approach to studying climate impacts from natural gas pipelines.

U.S. EPA is reportedly slow-walking a settlement with Harley-Davidson over emissions violations amid Republican concerns about a clean air project set up by the deal.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's "Back-to-Basics" tour will touch down tomorrow in East Chicago, Ind., an industrial city in the throes of a lead-contamination crisis.

Only one of Montana Gov. Steve Bullock's citizen appointees for the Fish and Wildlife Commission was approved yesterday.

Hundreds of dead fish were found in the McKinley Park Lagoon in Chicago this week, and hundreds more are packed at the surface gasping for air due to low oxygen levels in the water.

A bill that would require water testing in public schools is advancing though the Colorado Legislature, despite cost concerns.

Flame-retardant chemicals are being found in some of the world's best-selling children's toys through recycled plastics, according to a study released today by a European environmental coalition.

Chemical industry representatives and environmental groups clashed this morning at a public hearing on U.S. EPA's proposed delay in implementing new safety regulations.

U.S. EPA granted extensions for the public comment period of two proposed Toxic Substances Control Act rules after an industry group asked for more time to replicate the data the agency used to determine the rules.

The number of Americans exposed to unhealthy air has fallen steeply in recent years, but short-term spikes in fine-particle pollution have worsened in some areas and climate change could impede further progress, the American Lung Association said in its latest annual report card, released this morning.

Rocky Mountain Power, an electric utility in Utah, is working on a plan to provide customers in the northern part of the state with water, potentially eliminating the need for a $1.5 billion development project.

Three years after the Flint, Mich., lead contamination crisis, Mayor Karen Weaver wants the city to get its water from Detroit, its source before switching to the Flint River in 2014.

Nine highway expansion projects are costing taxpayers $10 billion but will do little to solve congestion, according to a report released today by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG).

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will increase its oversight of the Oyster Creek power plant in Ocean County, N.J., after a 2016 inspection found deficient maintenance work on a relief valve.

The nation's biggest public utility is not going to reopen coal plants under President Trump, its CEO said yesterday.

The wind industry is staking a claim on "Trump country."

Proposed cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration quickly earned the ire of researchers, environmentalists, lawmakers and fishermen, largely due to concerns over slashes to NOAA's ocean and fisheries programs.

A verdict is expected soon for the first six defendants in the federal trial stemming from the 2014 armed standoff between public land opponents and federal agents on Cliven Bundy's ranch in Nevada (Greenwire, April 13).

A 33-year-old man who assaulted a National Park Service employee was recently sentenced to 76 years in prison.

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