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Colorado officials do not adequately prevent pipeline excavation damage, which is responsible for about a third of pipeline leaks in the state, federal regulators have warned.

The Dakota Access pipeline leaked more than 100 gallons of oil in North Dakota in two March spills, the second and third known leaks as the controversial project prepares to become fully operational.

Attempts to combat climate change will carry on under President Trump, former Vice President Al Gore said yesterday at the Cannes Film Festival.

U.S. EPA today announced it would halt two key Obama-era rules aimed at cutting landfill methane emissions.

The Trump administration and the mining industry are working to settle lawsuits over an Obama-era crackdown on mines that repeatedly violated safety rules.

Federal judges today tossed another environmental challenge to an East Coast pipeline project.

A South African big-game hunter was killed in Zimbabwe last week when an elephant fell on him after another hunter shot it.

A video that went viral captured a scary moment last Saturday: a young girl dragged underwater by a sea lion. A bystander jumped in the water and pulled her to safety.

A massive, 64-foot-high wave was measured by a buoy in the Southern Ocean about 400 miles south of New Zealand on Saturday.

When a pregnant polar bear dug her maternity den along a bridge leading to an artificial oil production island off the north coast of Alaska, the oil company Hilcorp was forced into action.

A federal appeals court today upheld the Forest Service's controversial logging plan for the Tongass National Forest in Alaska.

Democrat Jon Ossoff is up 7 points on Republican Karen Handel in the latest poll on the special House election in Georgia's 6th District.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and five fellow Republican senators introduced a resolution yesterday calling on President Trump to withdraw from the Paris climate accord.

A bipartisan coalition of senators yesterday asked Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to spare the National Park Service's oil and gas regulations from the department's regulatory rollback.

President Trump's nominees for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission have promised to cut ties with past employers and organizations they have been involved with, according to financial disclosure forms released today.

A watchdog group is suing the federal government to release ethics waivers given to former lobbyists now on its payroll.

A local Utah official, who told E&E News last week that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke privately vowed to recommend rescinding Bears Ears National Monument, said today that he misspoke and that Zinke had not promised any specific outcomes for the 1.35-million-acre site.

The Trump administration asked Congress today to set aside $200 billion of federal cash over 10 years to "incentivize" local, state and private spending on infrastructure projects.

President Trump today called for a 16 percent reduction in the Commerce Department's budget, including the elimination of key programs within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The Trump administration wants to take a hatchet to the Department of Energy's coal, efficiency, renewable energy and science programs.

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