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A former Democratic congressman and senior officials in the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton campaign are launching a group today to promote clean energy jobs in rural America and shift the Washington debate on renewable power.

More than a decade after agreeing to keep tabs on emissions from large-scale animal feedlots, U.S. EPA isn't close to getting the job done, the agency's inspector general said in a new report, which found the delay is undercutting the broader effort to regulate pollution from that sector.

President Trump's pick to lead U.S. EPA's air office will head to court next week to challenge an Obama administration rule intended to increase protections workplaces must provide to keep workers from inhaling tiny and sometimes deadly particles.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has publicly endorsed a carbon tax, heightening the call for climate action and possibly laying the groundwork for a bipartisan push to address global warming.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has wasted little time in giving a jolt to the nation's fisheries.

Mexico City is built on an ancient lake bed lined with soft soil, which made Tuesday's catastrophic earthquake even more destructive, according to seismologists.

A chemical spill yesterday at the Pennsylvania headquarters of one of the world's largest mushroom distributors made a dozen employees ill.

Wyoming environmental regulators are considering charging fees for electronic records requests that cost the agency more than $180.

Flint, Mich., saw lower fertility rates and a higher number of fetal deaths after the city was struck with lead-contaminated drinking water in 2014, according to a new study.

Fisher Sand & Gravel Co. Inc., one of the companies the Trump administration picked to build a border wall prototype, has been hit with hundreds of state and local environmental law violations in Arizona since 2006.

U.S. EPA will install a barrier and valve inside Colorado's Gold King mine to prevent a repeat of the 2015 blowout that sent waste spilling into waterways, tainting rivers in Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.

Following a legally required review, U.S. EPA is proposing to leave key emissions standards for portland cement manufacturers unchanged, albeit with technical amendments that the agency describes as "potentially positive" for the industry through improved monitoring, compliance and implementation.

Greenpeace activists today boarded a ship arriving in a British port in an effort to stop a shipment of more than 1,000 diesel cars made by Volkswagen AG from arriving in the country.

Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) criticized Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) yesterday for waffling on the state's controversial high-speed rail construction project.

For the first time, a federal agency yesterday moved to ban a whole class of toxic flame retardants.

Even the smallest amount of oil can disfigure the spines and damage the hearts of redfish larvae, making it difficult for them to grow into the 40-pound monsters so popular among fishermen, according to a new study.

Green groups are gearing up for a lawsuit if Duke Energy Corp. refuses to disclose the risks of potential coal ash dam failures.

California sued the Trump administration yesterday over its proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates is headed to Georgetown Law.

Environmental groups and a New York-led coalition of states have asked the Supreme Court to overturn a decision that reinstated U.S. EPA's contentious "water transfers" rule.

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