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Environmental groups are criticizing U.S. EPA, both for its planned approach to approving state permitting programs for coal ash disposal and for its refusal thus far to release the draft guidance now under review by the White House budget office.

A California nursery owner facing a potential multimillion-dollar Clean Water Act fine has now enlisted a well-connected Capitol Hill lobbyist as he fights in both the legal and political arenas.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell set priorities today for the chamber's extended work period this month.

The Trump administration's new nominee for Interior Department solicitor is an aggressive and widely experienced attorney who has represented a politically assertive corporate boss, fellow attorneys say.

An appeals court upheld today a lower court decision that vacated a 2011 rule lifting federal protections from wolves in the Great Lakes region.

The Trump administration waived environmental and other regulatory requirements today to expedite construction of barriers along the border between California and Mexico.

A senior U.S. EPA official is resigning her post today, saying in a scathing exit memo that the Trump administration has led to "the temporary triumph of myth over truth."

Malaysian authorities over the weekend confiscated nearly $1 million worth of ivory tusks and pangolin scales, airport officials announced today.

Some Texas oil and gas companies are looking the other way when potential employees can't pass a drug test.

Pesticide use is prevalent in the pot industry, according to Josh Wurzer, the president of cannabis-testing company SC Labs.

U.S. EPA is reviewing its instructions on how to use the most recent versions of the weedkiller dicamba after hundreds of reports claimed it caused crop damage when traces of it drifted from nearby application sites.

A West Texas oilman and land baron is close to pumping 5.4 million gallons of water every day and piping it 60 miles to the nation's most bountiful oil field, the Permian Basin.

U.S. EPA has finalized a blueprint to limit dioxin contamination in a 14-mile stretch of West Virginia's Kanawha River, the agency said this week, a plan that would address pollution left by Monsanto Co. more than 50 years ago.

The threat of algal blooms looms large this year — especially in places like Florida's Lake Okeechobee and Lake Erie, where the annual bloom could be larger than in previous years.

NASA is hiring an officer to help protect Earth from alien contamination — and to stop humans from polluting other planets — with a yearly salary upward of $100,000.

The communications director for the Department of Energy's SunShot Initiative is stepping down.

Amid a glut of fuel-grade ethanol, major U.S. producers are turning to other markets.

Big data isn't only for companies like Amazon and Netflix — it could also help scientists looking for new deposits of minerals, oil and gas, according to a new study.