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SCOTLAND: Enviro agencies oppose Trump golf course plans

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Scotland's environmental agencies have objected to the Trump Organization's plan to build a new golf course on the Aberdeenshire coast.

CALIFORNIA: State orders 93 dam reviews after Oroville

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California officials have requested reviews of the flood control spillways for 93 dams after the Oroville Dam crisis.

LOUISIANA: Oil and gas interests influenced coastal restoration — audit

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A sweeping project by Louisiana authorities to restore the state's wetlands was influenced by landowners and oil and gas interests, according to a new report from the state legislative auditor's office.

HAWAII: Judge revives plan for huge telescope opposed by Natives

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A proposal for a $1.4 billion telescope project on top of Hawaii's Mauna Kea may still be alive despite years of opposition by environmentalists and Native Hawaiians.

MARYLAND: Rep. Delaney plans 2020 White House bid

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Maryland Democratic Rep. John Delaney will not run for Congress or governor next year. Instead, he announced today that he is running for president in 2020.

SUPERFUND: EPA cleanup plan to force companies out of radioactive site

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U.S. EPA has announced a plan to clean up a New York City Superfund site where radioactive material was once processed to develop the atomic bomb.

WATER POLLUTION: Sewage pipe rupture leads to state of emergency in Ariz.

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Arizona officials say E. coli has been found in a wash where untreated wastewater was spilled just north of the Mexican border.

VW SCANDAL: Regulators approve emissions fix

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U.S. EPA and the California Air Resources Board have approved a fix for 326,000 Volkswagen AG diesel cars with illegal emissions.

AGRICULTURE: Perdue bets happier chickens equal tastier ones

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Perdue Farms Inc., one of the world's largest poultry producers, is helping to lead a shift in the poultry industry by improving conditions for its chickens and giving the birds more space to roam.

CHEMICALS: Dow, DuPont try to lure millennials with green tech

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Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont are looking for new avenues of growth and ways to build a stronger connection with millennials, and they may have found one in building sustainable "green" products.

PIPELINES: Mountaineer project adds to FERC backlog

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Another major proposed natural gas pipeline joins others in waiting for the Senate to restore a quorum to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

NATURAL GAS: Legal challenge aims to block Aliso Canyon reopening

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The fight over a massive California gas storage facility that has been crippled since a major blowout is heading to court.

HIGH-SPEED RAIL: Calif. bullet train can't bypass enviro regs, top court says

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California's environmental rules may jeopardize a $64 billion proposal for a bullet train between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

AGRICULTURE: Industry, greens spar over future of reporting requirements

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Livestock producers and environmentalists are sparring over the timeline for animal feeding operations to start complying with pollution-reporting requirements.

BIOFUELS: Court tosses EPA justification for RFS reduction

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A federal court today rejected U.S. EPA's justification for reducing renewable fuel requirements in a win for the biofuels industry.

WILDFIRES: Scientists fly straight into smoke to measure pollutants

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To measure how the massive plumes of smoke produced by wildfires affect the environment and public health, scientists have to fly into the thick of the blaze.

WILDLIFE: Outrage over shark-dragging video grows

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A short video of what appears to be a shark being dragged behind a boat has sparked an investigation by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

PUBLIC LANDS: Wildfire-scorched ranchers ask Zinke to allow refuge grazing

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The Lodgepole Complex of fires has burned more than 270,000 acres of Montana land in recent weeks, devastating pasture that ranchers depend on for grazing cattle.

NATIONAL PARKS: 10 Yellowstone workers to be disciplined for harassment

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Up to 10 Yellowstone National Park workers in the maintenance division will be punished for sexually harassing female employees, the park's superintendent said.

CLIMATE: Groups take new shot at social cost of carbon

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A group of conservative organizations are urging Congress to do away with federal agencies using the social cost of carbon metric in rulemaking.
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