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Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney this morning shrugged off criticism over proposed steep domestic spending cuts that would hit many energy and environmental programs, arguing there is a "moral imperative" to balance the federal budget.

The Environmental Defense Fund has hired Josette Lewis, a molecular biologist and food policy expert at the University of California, Davis, to head its sustainable agriculture programs.

A longtime staffer for House Energy and Commerce Chairman Greg Walden (R-Ore.) has taken a job at nuclear giant Exelon Corp.

Ninety-five economists and legal scholars who specialize in regulatory issues urged the Trump administration today to overhaul the president's executive order mandating that agencies kill two rules for each one they write.

The Trump administration's budget released yesterday doubles down on his promise to eliminate money for cleaning the Chesapeake Bay, sending Virginia and Maryland lawmakers into defense mode.

President Trump's budget request calls for cutting a significant chunk of funding for the Bureau of Land Management's ongoing effort to implement sweeping greater sage grouse conservation plans, a move observers say is a clear signal the administration is backing away from the Obama-era plans.

The number of National Park Service employees would be slashed, some areas could be closed and visitor services would decrease under the fiscal 2018 budget proposed yesterday by the Trump administration.

Internal watchdogs at energy and environmental agencies are in for tough times under President Trump's budget plan.

U.S. EPA is looking for nominees to fill out its science board after Administrator Scott Pruitt decided against bringing back some of its members.

Pope Francis this morning presented President Trump with a copy of his high-profile encyclical on the environment that calls for urgent action on climate change.

A big whack to a popular program for curbing diesel engine emissions, reduced air quality monitoring, and less money to help states meet federal air pollution standards — those are items among the fine print in which the Trump administration is seeking to carve hundreds of millions of dollars out of U.S. EPA programs to reduce air pollution, according to its detailed fiscal 2018 budget proposal released yesterday.

NAOMA, W.Va. — Some ex-coal miners have become environmental activists trying to halt massive mountaintop projects that they say are devastating their home state. "I was sitting up there for 12 hours a day watching that equipment move and watching them set up blasts and tear up that mountainside," a former coal company employee recalls. "I just felt like I had blood on my hands."

Texas lawmakers approved a measure allowing feral hog and coyote hunts from hot air balloons.

Undercover officers working in a Florida alligator farm found thousands of illegally harvested alligator eggs and several illegal alligator hunts, leading to the arrest yesterday of nine men.

Wells Fargo has pulled its sponsorship of the Iditarod dog sled race in Alaska.

For the past six decades, Earth's orbit has filled with space junk — detritus from satellites and space missions that can reach speeds of 18,000 mph and threaten new launches.

Tampon and menstrual pad makers are not legally required to list their ingredients on boxes.

Corroded metal contributed to an explosion at the Loy-Lange Box Co. in St. Louis that killed four people and critically injured another, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board said today.

Tesla Inc.'s factory in Fremont, Calif., saw far higher injury rates than the industry average, according to a report published yesterday by a workplace safety group.

A successful hack of at least eight Interior Department email accounts last year lit a fire under the agency's cybersecurity efforts, an internal watchdog reported yesterday.

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