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President Trump will head tomorrow to Texas to survey the post-Harvey response even as the tropical storm continues to dump rain along the Gulf Coast.

The Army Corps of Engineers began releasing a torrent of water from two reservoirs outside Houston yesterday, as Tropical Storm Harvey continued to overwhelm the city's outdated flood-control system.

A former banker who is now U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's point man for Superfund has been fined $125,000 by federal banking regulators and barred from banking activity.

Ahead of a possible trade decision that could shock the global solar industry, President Trump told his senior advisers, "I want tariffs," according to media reports.

Devastating flooding and widespread damage associated with Tropical Storm Harvey is expected to add new fiscal pressure on lawmakers when they return next month, with top officials already signaling that billions of dollars will be needed for a recovery expected to last years.

HOUSTON — The most powerful hurricane to hit Texas since the 1960s left devastation in its wake, and the disaster is still unfolding as now-Tropical Storm Harvey continues to pour rain and misery here.

The Chinese-ruled weather observatory in Macau and its former boss are under investigation by the territory's anti-corruption agency after a typhoon that killed 10 people.

Delaware just got one step closer to developing an offshore wind farm.

Rocky Mountain Power yesterday reached a deal with Utah officials and solar advocates to drop its attempt to change rooftop solar payment plans. It will grandfather in current net-metering customers until 2035.

A nonprofit connected to Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore could be violating its tax-exempt status by posting campaign ads and articles about Moore to social media, according to tax law attorneys.

Nearly two-thirds of city officials think climate change puts their water supply at risk, and 43 percent of companies say their operations are exposed to water risks, according to a new study.

Environmentalists are pressing Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper to reverse his support for reducing royalties charged at a controversial coal mine.

Tribes opposed to the Dakota Access pipeline are making a final push to shut down the project.

Duke Energy Corp. has permanently scrapped its proposed nuclear reactors in Levy County, Fla., adding to the list of canceled projects.

The U.S. Department of Commerce will delay a final decision about softwood lumber imports from Canada, keeping the two nations at an impasse.

A Washington state administrative judge has shelved Montana's attempts to influence plans to retire two units at the coal-fired Colstrip Generating Station.

California's Supreme Court yesterday invalidated a law requiring nearly all new taxes to pass with a two-thirds voter margin, a decision experts said lowers the hurdle to win funding for local transit and other green efforts.

Two federal scientists said in depositions for a landmark climate change lawsuit last month that the Earth's climate is in perilous condition due to rising greenhouse gas levels, court records show.