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Apple Inc.'s plan to build a self-driving car has taken a back seat to the company's new plan to just create the technology for another company to use in its cars.

President Trump signed a resolution yesterday that gave final approval to the Metro Safety Commission, an oversight agency charged with improving the safety of the Metro system.

U.S. EPA's inspector general today offered nearly two dozen recommendations to improve a popular program that provides loans to help redevelop former industrial or commercial sites where there is real or perceived environmental contamination.

European antitrust regulators have expressed grave concerns over Bayer AG's acquisition of Monsanto Co.

U.S. EPA has rolled out another round of proposed air-quality attainment designations for its primary sulfur dioxide standard, a roster that largely follows state recommendations, but also flags possible problems in a small number of counties.

Colorado officials plan to tighten the state's oil and gas regulations in the wake of a home explosion in April that killed two people.

A nuclear fuel bank, backed by Warren Buffett and more than a decade in the making, will open next week in Kazakhstan, marking a milestone for both international nuclear power and nonproliferation efforts.

More than two dozen law professors are urging the Supreme Court to take up a Louisiana levee board's lawsuit against major oil and gas companies over coastal damage.

A federal court yesterday further suspended a legal battle over an Obama-era rule limiting toxic discharges from power plants.

Washington state officials are urging people to go fishing to help deal with a salmon farm spill that released thousands of Atlantic salmon into the ocean near the San Juan Islands.

The Conowingo Dam has been holding back sediment from entering the Chesapeake Bay for years, but the structure filled up much faster than expected, imperiling cleanup efforts.

California's loggers and environmentalists will again face off over northern spotted owl protections, as timber giant Sierra Pacific Industries tries to craft a plan that would allow intrusions on the federally protected bird's forest habitat.

The Trump administration sought to prevent the National Park Service from expressing concern over hunting and fishing legislation, according to a memo obtained by McClatchy.

House Natural Resources Committee ranking member Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) yesterday slammed the Trump administration's ongoing assessment of dozens of national monuments as an "obvious sham," asserting the 3 ½-month review is geared toward opening public lands to energy extraction.

A bill introduced in the House last month is raising concerns for an ocean advocacy group tracking efforts by the Trump administration to alter safeguards for marine mammals.

President Trump's bid to streamline permitting for infrastructure projects likely hinges on a legislative overhaul of a cornerstone environmental law, legal experts say.

The National Farmers Union is tired of playing defense on ethanol policy.

President Trump made puzzling remarks praising the cleaning of coal last night even as a major coal company warned it is heading toward bankruptcy.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke regularly touts his admiration of Theodore Roosevelt, but the conservationist president's great-grandson yesterday said Zinke's actions have failed to match his rhetoric.

A former Hill staffer who is an unknown quantity to both the mining industry and the top miners union has become temporary head of the Mine Safety and Health Administration.

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