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WHITEFISH, Mont. — When a cadre of Western governors meet with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke today, Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead (R) said the group will emphasize the decades of effort that led to the creation of current sage grouse conservation efforts — and will aim to influence the Interior Department's new review of whether those plans are hindering energy production on public lands.

National Park Service officials did not direct agency staff to alter or "scrub" information about the size of President Trump's inaugural crowd from official reports on the event, according to the Interior Department's Office of Inspector General.

Washington attorney Dennis Lee Forsgren will serve as the new deputy assistant administrator for U.S. EPA's Office of Water.

The House Natural Resources Committee today approved 22 bills, including legislation to approve construction of a controversial road in Alaska and other measures related to water, recreation, mining cleanup and forest management.

Top Democrats on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee want an investigation into whether a top aide to U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt pressured the chairwoman of a key advisory panel to give misleading testimony at a hearing last month.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt this morning defended President Trump's proposed massive budget cuts for the agency.

Virginia Democrats have coalesced behind gubernatorial nominee Ralph Northam after his June 13 primary win — with one notable exception.

The Trump administration will reveal its proposal for repealing the controversial Clean Water Rule today, U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee today.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry was unable to duck the politically explosive climate change issue today as the Trump administration rolled into day two of "Energy Week."

The Trump administration released the federal hold yesterday on California Gov. Jerry Brown's (D) bid to re-plumb the state's main water hub, saying the planned rerouting of water deliveries through underground tunnels won't hurt endangered fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

The fiscal 2018 spending proposal for agriculture programs released by House appropriators today rejects much of the Trump administration's budget-cutting approach, holding funding relatively steady for conservation and other programs overseen by the Department of Agriculture.

Department of Energy research and renewable energy programs would see a major funding reduction under the fiscal 2018 House energy-water appropriations bill released today, while the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) would be eliminated entirely.

The Bureau of Land Management is reassigning the directors of the Alaska, Colorado and New Mexico state offices to positions at other federal agencies as part of an Interior Department reorganization that sources say is only beginning.

A Superfund site in Michigan will get nearly $10 million from U.S. EPA this year to begin cleaning up a chemical plant that made now-banned pesticides and fire retardants.

A chemical spill from a Ford Motor Co. plant near Avon Lake, Ohio, leaked into Lake Erie but isn't considered a health hazard, officials said.

Efforts to restore the Earth's ozone shield could be pushed back by decades if chemical emissions from paint strippers are not curbed, according to new research.

The National Nuclear Security Administration posted online yesterday applications for the multibillion-dollar management contract for the troubled Los Alamos National Laboratory.

A 2011 incident that led to 16 workers inhaling plutonium dust at Idaho National Laboratory was preceded by other serious instances of contamination and pointed warnings from the chairman of the lab's safety committee, according to a Center for Public Integrity investigation.

Miami's research hub could face a double whammy if the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration moves its National Marine Fisheries Service office from Virginia Key to St. Petersburg and if proposed budget cuts to the agency's climate science program come to fruition.

Coal jobs are rebounding, but mining companies are looking for workers who can crunch data or use a joystick in a move away from the traditionally labor-intensive work in the industry.

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