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U.S. EPA should look to the ranks of state and local air quality regulators in filling seats on a key advisory panel, a professional association said today in a letter to agency chief Scott Pruitt.

Five people were arrested in Superior, Wis., yesterday during a protest of Enbridge Inc.'s Line 3 pipeline project.

Energy trade groups praised the Department of Energy yesterday for its staff report on grid reliability, but one industry group was conspicuously absent.

Environmentalists sued the Trump administration yesterday for an alleged illegal rollback of efficiency standards, the latest of many legal battles over Obama-era rules.

Conservation groups yesterday fired the latest shot in the growing legal battle over President Trump's plans to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.

A mysterious creature with fangs and no face washed ashore in southeastern Texas after Hurricane Harvey, inspiring scientists to figure out what it could be.

Scientists fear that a wildfire along the California-Nevada border may have devastated vital habitat for the Amargosa vole, an endangered rodent that lives only in that area.

Conservationists and local officials in central Idaho want to establish the nation's first International Dark Sky Reserve in part of the state's less populated region.

Cherokee National Forest has added more than 1,600 acres to its area, with a price tag of $4.6 million, the nonprofit Conservation Fund said yesterday.

An environmental group released a video yesterday showing what could be one of three jaguars seen in the United States in recent years.

While humans head back to their homes in Florida and Texas to take stock of the damage from Hurricanes Irma and Harvey, wildlife officials will be checking in on habitats.

The fatal shooting of an endangered Mexican gray wolf by members of a federal predator control program has once again raised tensions between environmentalists and government regulators over the effectiveness of ongoing efforts to recover the species.

Bill Smith, a former top aide to Vice President Mike Pence, has signed up with another biofuels trade group.

More than a dozen Northeastern Democrats in the House are backing a bill to protect a regional gasoline reserve that President Trump is trying to eliminate.

Citing a decrease in the number of hunters nationwide, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke signed a secretarial order today that will require federal agencies under his jurisdiction to develop plans to expand access for hunting and fishing on public land.

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) suggested yesterday that the Trump administration could seek to divide Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument into a handful of smaller sites, calling the 1.9-million-acre monument an "example of abuse of the Antiquities Act."

Howard Gruenspecht is a familiar face in Washington energy policy circles, but the native New Yorker says his wife is the real celebrity of the family.

When President Trump appointed Daniel Simmons to help oversee energy efficiency and renewables at the Department of Energy, clean power boosters groaned.

The short-handed and seemingly sidelined White House Council on Environmental Quality could reclaim some of its mojo as it coordinates the Trump administration's controversial plan to streamline infrastructure project reviews.

A federal court this morning rebuffed the Bureau of Land Management for failing to closely consider the climate impacts of several coal leases in Wyoming's Powder River Basin.

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