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Former Provo Mayor John Curtis won the Republican nomination in the race to fill the Utah seat formerly held by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R).

When the House reconvenes next month, it will immediately consider a broad package of fiscal 2018 domestic spending bills, including the measure funding U.S. EPA and the Interior Department, Republican leaders signaled today.

The Trump administration is narrowing down candidates to lead the U.S. Energy Information Administration, according to the outgoing acting head of the agency.

The humble San Fernando Valley spineflower now sticks federal officials with another Endangered Species Act challenge.

LAKEWOOD, Colo. — Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner (R) faced off with constituents yesterday in a series of raucous town halls across the Front Range as he fielded questions on North Korea, health care reform and U.S. EPA — often to the sound of audience boos that drowned out his answers.

While many Americans want Confederate memorials removed from public spaces, the National Park Service say they're worth preserving to recognize the Civil War and other events that changed history.

Hundreds of manufacturing, mining and waste disposal companies have been polluting drinking water for decades, according to U.S. EPA data.

U.S. EPA is giving the public more time to weigh in on its proposed repeal of the Obama-era rule that defines which wetlands and small waterways are protected by the Clean Water Act.

U.S. EPA is gathering data on consumer preferences and jobs as it reconsiders the feasibility of greenhouse gas standards for motor vehicles.

The solicitor general of West Virginia, who has been a key figure in legal battles over Obama administration climate change regulations, is leaving his post.

An environmental group has filed a lawsuit against Utah county commissions that held closed-door meetings with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.

A construction company will pay a fine of $1.5 million and serve three years of probation for violating the Clean Air Act in a project in Puerto Rico, according to the Justice Department.

A federal court yesterday gave U.S. EPA three months to enforce pollution-reporting requirements at animal feeding operations.

Scientists in India have found a unique way to track the health of wild elephants: freeze-drying their dung.

Scientists have discovered radioactive iodine traced to nuclear reprocessing plants in the United Kingdom and France deep in the waters near Bermuda.

Hundreds of Pacific walruses made their earliest appearance ever on Alaska's northwest coast.

Tourists hoping to see next week's eclipse are set to descend on the American West during the height of fire season, straining infrastructure and putting fire managers on alert.

The National Park Service has ended a controversial Obama-era policy that encouraged national parks to ban the sale of plastic water bottles in the name of reducing litter and trash.

Yosemite National Park's aggrieved former concessions company has won a partial but still meaningful interim victory in its legal fight over trademarked names.

Former Rep. Vern Ehlers, a moderate Republican from Michigan who served in Congress for more than 17 years, died Tuesday. He was 83.

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