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North Dakota Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp has a President Trump-backing challenger in the 2018 race for her seat.

President Trump took to Twitter this morning to call Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake "toxic" and support his Republican primary challenger.

The Trump administration is working to strip even the smallest aspects of President Obama's legacy, including a bike-share station installed on the grounds of the White House by the last administration.

Former Vice President Al Gore will deliver the keynote address at former Sen. Harry Reid's annual Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas in October.

The Interior Department's three-month review of 27 national monuments to assess whether to reduce or revoke any designations has rendered the outdoor recreation industry "a little speechless," said Jerry Stritzke, REI's CEO and president.

Conservationists slammed Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke today for traveling overseas ahead of the deadline for his review of dozens of national monuments, noting that the Trump administration official has visited less than a third of the sites under evaluation.

New York University School of Law launched an effort today to help state attorneys general defend environmental and energy policies in the face of the Trump administration's anti-regulatory agenda.

When Peg Howell and her husband decided to semiretire eight years ago, they moved to Pawleys Island, S.C., a seaside resort she calls "a piece of heaven on earth."

Facing pressure from federal and state officials, the National Park Service yesterday said it is re-evaluating a permit given to a right-wing group to hold a rally in San Francisco.

In a sharp break with tradition, U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has inserted a senior political appointee into the role of vetting competitive grant solicitations collectively worth hundreds of millions of dollars each year, according to a memo obtained by E&E News.

Chinese environmental officials are deploying multilingual interpreters to help with inspections in a country with thousands of regional languages.

An anti-poaching activist in Tanzania was fatally shot, colleagues said this week.

Republican state legislators in Wisconsin yesterday proposed a bill to end the state's moratorium on sulfide mining.

Leaders from 18 environmental groups wrote yesterday to Gov. Kate Brown (D) that Oregon's Department of Fish and Wildlife has "lost its way."

The U.S. military has nearly 150 Superfund sites on its roster of current and former bases, but the cleanup process has been slow, leaving unsafe drinking water in surrounding communities and costing taxpayers millions of dollars.

The official overseeing the Department of Energy's largest nuclear cleanup will step down next month, according to an email obtained by E&E News.

Many power grid operators and electric utilities see the total solar eclipse as an exciting chance to experiment.

Villages and cities across West and Central Africa may be vulnerable to the same destruction that killed over 400 people this week in Sierra Leone's capital.