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The Philippines' new environmental minister, former Gen. Roy Cimatu, said natural resource protections and mining can be balanced.

The South Carolina Senate passed a compromise plan yesterday to raise the state's gas tax by 12 cents per gallon and increase other driving fees.

President Trump's proposed $1 trillion infrastructure investment depends on public-private partnerships.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) is about to see a budget of significantly less money than he asked for.

Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) has introduced a bill to take away the ability of municipal governments to create local pesticide ordinances, a measure that closely mirrors a model bill from a secretive national group that helps large corporations ghostwrite laws for state legislators.

One of President Trump's top private-sector infrastructure advisers is responsible for a vexing challenge of his own: fixing Penn Station in New York.

Fairbanks, Alaska, and two Utah cities are facing tighter pollution control requirements as U.S. EPA prepares to downgrade their nonattainment status for compliance with its 24-hour air quality standard for fine particulates.

U.S. EPA today issued a proposed rule to grant North Dakota the right to implement its own program for injecting carbon dioxide underground.

Two drivers died in a fiery head-on crash between a crude oil truck and a truck carrying sand for hydraulic fracturing Saturday in New Town, N.D.

Several Chase Bank locations in Seattle were forced to close yesterday as Native American leaders and climate activists led protests demanding that the company not lend money to projects like the Keystone XL pipeline.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will increase oversight of an atomic fuel factory in Columbia, S.C., after nearly a year of safety concerns.

The head of Ohio's EPA criticized pipeline company Energy Transfer Partners yesterday for a "pattern" of drilling material spills.

A railroad tunnel at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation collapsed this morning, spurring the evacuation of workers near the accident site, the Department of Energy said.

A northern Minnesota man has been charged with stealing birch trees valued at more than $3,400 off state and county land.

Murray Energy Corp. has sued The New York Times for defamation after the newspaper's editorial board wrote that outspoken coal company CEO Robert Murray lies about the cause of a 2007 mine disaster and routinely disregards mining regulations.

The Bureau of Land Management properly withheld data about the locations and depths of agricultural water wells in California, a federal court today ruled.

Rural Oregon was once so flush with timber money that officials had to look for ways to spend it.

The Forest Service announced yesterday it will soon finalize approval of a controversial Arizona copper mine overlapping the only known jaguar territory in the United States.

The Bureau of Land Management is failing to track the oil and gas industry's compliance with lease stipulations designed to protect natural and cultural resources on public lands, according to a new Government Accountability Office report that concludes BLM cannot assure the public "that it is meeting its environmental responsibilities."

Actor Antonio Sabàto Jr. plans to challenge U.S. Rep Julia Brownley (D), whose congressional seat includes a stretch of Southern California coast.

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