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U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said today that the Trump administration will decide on whether to remain in or withdraw from the Paris accords after this month's meeting of world powers.

A bloc of conservation groups today called on senators to reject the George W. Bush administration official-turned-lobbyist who is now President Trump's pick to serve in the second-most powerful position at the Interior Department.

Two ramps appeared recently at the Capitol Reflecting Pool to help ducklings reach the water. They struggle, otherwise, to hop over concrete barricades.

North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says he is "fine" and eager to return to work after collapsing during a charity race in Washington, D.C., this morning.

The Senate today advanced the nomination of Rachel Brand, President Trump's pick for the No. 3 spot at the Justice Department.

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the powerful Republican chairwoman of the committee with jurisdiction over the Department of Energy, went to bat today for a number of the agency's programs facing steep cuts or elimination under the Trump administration.

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved five bills today that would alter how agencies issue regulations.

The Trump administration last week cleared a chief roadblock for the Pebble mine project but did nothing to resolve the underlying tension between going after the planet's largest untapped gold and copper reserves and protecting one of its last great salmon fisheries.

U.S. EPA says it's working to comply with a district court order to evaluate the economic and jobs impacts of its air regulations on the coal industry even as it appeals the order in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Pennsylvania Public Utility Commissioner Robert Powelson has a similar style to President Trump.

President Trump has so far failed to provide the U.S. EPA staffers needed to execute an aggressive deregulatory game plan.

Indonesian authorities arrested Katsuhide Naito of Japan, who conservationists say is a central figure in illegal wildlife trade.

A town in Alaska had to decide how to reinvent itself when its timber industry collapsed, and now, those same people who earned their wages through timber now work in the tourism industry.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) has chosen Noah Valenstein, the executive director of the Suwannee River Water Management District, to be his pick for the next secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection.

The Nevada Senate yesterday approved a resolution supporting two recent national monument designations in Nevada: Basin and Range National Monument and Gold Butte National Monument.

City officials in Airway Heights, Wash., warned residents yesterday that water from city pipes is likely contaminated by chemical runoff from the nearby Fairchild Air Force Base.

U.S. EPA's internal watchdog warned the agency that it needs to toughen up oversight of state officials as well as bolster its defenses against cyberattacks.

The first nuclear power station in Western Europe in 15 years is nearing completion after years of delays.

The flash fire that broke out at the Delaware City Refining Co. in 2015 and gave a worker second- and third-degree burns was caused by a non-routine maintenance operation, according to the U.S. Chemical Safety Board.

Former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has joined California-based Tri Alpha Energy Inc., a company developing fusion power, as a member of its board of directors.

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