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U.S. EPA'S planned long-term freeze on implementation of new industrial safety regulations is under review by the White House Office of Management and Budget.

John Boehner has joined the board of directors of Arizona Mining Inc.

Key senators from both parties are joining House colleagues in warning the Trump administration against major shifts on energy policies in upcoming negotiations to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Sen. Michael Bennet's office coffee table is neatly stacked with dozens of books that, from their well-worn look, don't appear to be merely set pieces.

An environmental think tank will reform and update a key Obama-era climate change metric jettisoned by the Trump administration.

The Trump administration made its first formal move to roll back Obama-era climate standards for the power sector.

President Trump concluded his "infrastructure week" today by promising to "hold the bureaucracy accountable."

The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman is joining Democrats in slamming a Trump administration legal opinion that takes a narrow view of agencies' obligations to respond to congressional requests for information.

An elephant attacked and killed a monk in a coastal Sri Lanka town yesterday.

Finland is preparing to entomb its nuclear waste underneath a forested patch of land on the Gulf of Bothnia.

Columbus, Ohio, attorneys and public health officials are preparing dozens of court cases against landlords who have ignored city orders to remove hazardous lead paint from their properties.

The Coast Guard reported an oil spill Friday near an unstaffed oil rig off Plaquemines Parish near New Orleans.

A $1.8 billion methanol plant in Washington state received a crucial county permit on the condition that the operation offset or find other ways to reduce carbon emissions.

Five citizen groups last week asked a federal appeals court to overturn a West Virginia agency's approval of the Mountain Valley pipeline.

Frequent summer storms over the Great Plains region could be depleting the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere, raising the risk of unhealthy exposure to ultraviolet radiation, according to new research. And climate change could make the problem worse.

The people in Colstrip, Mont., are angry about the push to change America's energy sources.

During a private meeting of energy ministers in Beijing last week, Energy Secretary Rick Perry gave a starkly different message than the others on climate change spending.

Longtime head of General Electric Co. Jeff Immelt announced he will step down as CEO on Aug. 1.

U.S. EPA is reopening the public comment period on a proposed settlement in litigation related to changes to air quality monitoring regulations.

Settlement talks to end lawsuits over an Arkansas haze reduction plan are a sham, according to environmental groups that want a federal appeals court to lift a 3-month-old stay and let proceedings resume.

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