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The Sierra Club sued U.S. EPA yesterday, accusing the agency of ignoring information and records requests under the Freedom of Information Act.

Days after granting the utility industry's request to revisit 2015 regulations governing the waste from coal-fired power plants, U.S. EPA is moving to sideline long-running legal challenges to those rules.

People who slurp down oysters and clams are eating plastic, too, according to shellfish biologist Sarah Dudas.

Paula Wang has volunteered at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Maryland every spring for 12 years. Costumed in a white suit and hood, she worked to save one of North America's tallest and rarest birds.

Hurricane Maria barreled into Dominica early this morning with winds that reached nearly 160 mph, ripping roofs off buildings and leaving "mind-boggling damage" in its wake, the prime minister said.

A conservation group wants the Trump administration to keep oil and natural gas drilling, mining and other development away from more than a dozen federal sites, including two national monuments Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has recommended cutting in size.

Two kinds of compact-sized dolphins found far from U.S. waters have secured Endangered Species Act protections from the Trump administration.

The Senate yesterday passed legislation to ban painted portraits of federal officials.

A Senate committee approved five nominees for top positions at three agencies this morning.

A divided Senate today confirmed President Trump's pick to be the government's top advocate in arguing administration policies before the Supreme Court. The chamber confirmed Noel Francisco for solicitor general 50-47.

The head of Texas' oil and gas regulator may have been pushed out of her job, touching off a political spat between two elected officials who oversee the agency.

Many federal employees preparing for Trump administration training this week on combating information leaks are taking the effort in stride.

A top House Democrat is questioning U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's decision to have a former banker who's been sanctioned by financial regulators lead the agency's Superfund task force.

The United Kingdom's break with coal may intensify the debate over a ready replacement: wood pellets from southeastern U.S. forests.

Imports of asbestos are up for the first time in years, raising the stakes on U.S. EPA's ongoing review of the cancer-causing mineral.

California water users are about to decide whether to back Gov. Jerry Brown's (D) bid to revamp the state's main water hub, but some still have questions about the costs and benefits of the plan.

President Trump delivered his first address before the U.N. General Assembly where he railed against rogue regimes, "loser terrorists" and international criminal networks. Conspicuously absent: climate change.

Scottish company Argent Energy wants to use the massive fatberg clogging a Victorian-era London sewer to produce a renewable biodiesel.

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake shook Mexico yesterday, killing at least 225 people and destroying schools and homes.

Nevada's Department of Transportation in some areas will no longer use a road de-icing product that has been linked to lead contamination in a Las Vegas suburb.

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