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Republican lawmakers, in letters sent to U.S. EPA, have pushed their picks to run the agency’s regional offices.

Federal prosecutors yesterday suffered another stunning setback in their attempts to convict participants in the armed standoff between ranchers and federal agents near Bunkerville, Nev., when jurors failed to return a single guilty verdict in the retrial of four men who took part in the 2014 event.

Clean energy expert Daniel Kammen is resigning as science envoy at the State Department because of the Trump administration's actions on the Paris climate agreement and comments about white supremacists.

President Trump's stated willingness to shut down the federal government over funding for his border wall with Mexico is adding a new layer of pressure on lawmakers, who already face a tangle of difficult budget and spending deadlines when they return to the Capitol next month.

VENTURA, Calif. -- The Pacific Ocean devoured Surfers' Point here because the Ventura River had stopped delivering sand needed to maintain it. The culprit was 16 miles upstream: Matilija Dam.

South Africa opened its first legal auction for rhino horns yesterday.

Brazil's government is opening up a vast national reserve to commercial mineral exploration, according to a notice.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is waging an air war on wild pigs in South Carolina, and the agency may be looking to expand the operation.

Montana environmental regulators have released their first proposal for regulating radioactive oil-field waste dumps.

A private resort community in Montana will cough up more than $90,000 in fines after spilling nearly 30 million gallons of treated waste into the Gallatin River.

Dominion Energy Inc. has hired a firm to examine its coal ash storage ponds in Virginia.

The water quality of lakes in the midwestern and northeastern United States has largely stayed the same despite increasing temperatures and rainstorm frequency, a new study has found.

The U.S. military has a toxic waste problem.

Agriculture giant Cargill Inc. and billionaire backers Bill Gates and Richard Branson are investing in new technology to make meat without raising or slaughtering animals.

Several oil companies have evacuated workers as Hurricane Harvey barrels toward the Gulf of Mexico.

A new U.S. lawsuit is seeking $5 billion in compensation for the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster from Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings Inc.

A judge Tuesday overturned the federal government's reclassification of a grizzly bear population living near the Canada border by ruling that animals and plants can be considered endangered even if they are not about to go extinct.

A federal judge ruled this week that natural gas pipeline companies are on the hook for erosion on 20,000 acres of Louisiana wetlands.

A retrial for two men charged in the Bunkerville standoff, Scott Drexler and Eric Parker, has been scheduled for Sept. 25, and the two can return home to Idaho in the meantime.

An environmental group is suing U.S. EPA over its failure to release regulatory reform documents under the Freedom of Information Act.

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