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Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today promised farmers will see a more efficient, friendlier Department of Agriculture as they seek help with conservation programs.

Following President Trump's lead, some state legislatures are rolling back environmental regulations.

Oil and gas companies looking for a big change in the federal renewable fuel standard have a new lobbying ally: their unionized workers.

The top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee is pressing a host of U.S. EPA officials for information on the Trump administration's proposed cuts to the agency.

Utah Republican Rep. Rob Bishop knows that timing is everything in theater, music and politics.

Just ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration, the Obama administration published rules that would hurry the phaseout of incandescent lightbulbs and save more energy than any efficiency standard in Department of Energy history.

Coal industry heavyweights are making money again with the Trump administration, and particularly U.S. EPA, firmly in their corner.

The Interior Department is reviewing more than 200 advisory panels, including ordering almost 40 Bureau of Land Management groups to postpone meetings at least through September -- after some key management reviews will already be finished.

Malaysian authorities seized more than $2 million worth of pangolin scales at Kuala Lumpur airport, officials said today.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has named former Army Gen. and Ambassador Roy Cimatu as the country's environment minister.

A long-awaited air pollution plan from the British government has drawn criticism from campaigners who say it won't do enough to tackle a growing public health concern.

A Nevada biologist is suing bear conservationists he accuses of a social media smear campaign.

Colorado's Energy Office could go dark on July 1 if state lawmakers fail to reauthorize the state agency before the Legislature ends its term Wednesday.

Google has requested to pump more groundwater from South Carolina to use for its data center in the state's Berkeley County, and the request has some officials worried.

Fish populations in the Chesapeake Bay have dramatically improved since last year, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science said in a new "report card."

U.S. EPA managers have beefed up safeguards against tampering with agency financial data following an inspector general's audit.

U.S. EPA's inspector general will examine the effectiveness of the agency's oversight of vehicle inspection and maintenance programs in curbing emissions, according to a notification memo posted online Friday.

Employees at U.S. EPA and the Justice Department who helped win the record settlement against Volkswagen for its emission-cheating scheme are under consideration for a top federal award.

The Department of Agriculture's Conservation Stewardship Program covers more working farmland than any other federal conservation program, but it suffers from a basic flaw: It's tilted against farmers who rent.

Military leaders say on-site power storage would be a useful tool in their efforts to improve energy security, and two branches are asking the energy industry for ideas about how to take advantage of the quickly growing technology.

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