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President Trump said Friday he plans to nominate Howard "Skip" Elliott, a 40-year veteran of the freight rail industry, to head the the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.

U.S. EPA is poised to address the utility industry's request to revisit key parts of its 2015 regulations governing coal ash disposal and storage, a new court filing indicates.

Roger Stone, a former longtime adviser to President Trump, pledged Friday to renew his effort to obtain presidential pardons for rancher Cliven Bundy and his co-defendants on trial in the 2014 armed standoff between their supporters and federal agents near Bunkerville, Nev.

For farmers recovering from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, handling livestock — both alive and dead — may be one of the hardest parts of returning to life as normal.

While the Trump administration has stayed silent on potential links between climate change and strong hurricanes, federal research on the issues is churning along.

The Interior Department's Office of Inspector General is in the midst of examining the department's politically sensitive reassignment of top officials, the watchdog agency confirmed today.

Floods and landslides hit the Philippine capital of Manila today after Cyclone Maring hit the area.

Colorado regulators fined an Encana Oil and Gas Inc. subsidiary, Hunter Ridge Energy Services LLC, $225,000 yesterday for a pipeline leak that polluted water and land on a big-game hunting ranch.

After Hurricane Harvey inundated Houston with water, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) is calling for flood control infrastructure in the city that he says should have been constructed "decades and decades ago."

The National Transportation Safety Board will meet today to examine the cause of a crash that killed a man last year while he was using the semiautonomous driving features of his Tesla Model S.

In the face of criticism over the environmental impact of packaging and transporting water, Evian wants to become the first major spring water brand to go carbon neutral.

Just two weeks after merging two of the world's largest chemical companies, DowDuPont Inc. is changing its plans to split into three companies.

U.S. EPA's internal watchdog uncovered several problems with the agency's management of a multimillion-dollar services contract.

More than 1,200 business across the globe, including U.S. companies like General Motors Co., are voluntarily assigning a dollar value to carbon dioxide to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with global warming, according to a report.

A federal judge ordered a blogger to take down by noon tomorrow confidential information about informants who helped law enforcement during the armed standoff at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon last year.

A former Justice Department environmental attorney has joined the Washington office of Jenner & Block LLP, the law firm announced today.

A federal appeals court has rejected the utility industry's bid for a lengthy pause to litigation over U.S. EPA's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, with the opening round of briefs now due by Monday.

A federal judge yesterday tossed a lawsuit challenging federal approval of an extension for the Four Corners Power Plant in northern New Mexico and an expansion of the mine that supplies its coal.