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Before the Trump administration overturned the National Park Service's ban on plastic water bottles in certain parks, the agency produced a report finding that the ban was effective.

Farmers who plant cover crops in the offseason say that they make the soil healthier and boost yields of soybeans and corn — but that crop insurance policies continue to discourage the practice.

The House's top watchdogs are investigating the use of private email in the Trump administration.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt stopped by the White House last night.

As President Trump tweeted about Puerto Rico's Wall Street debts and degraded infrastructure as a reason for the island's woes, his Energy secretary today pitched an unconventional lifeline for the hurricane-battered territory.

Imagine evaporation from lakes and reservoirs providing the majority of U.S. electricity at little cost and without heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions or intermittency problems.

President Trump's pick to head U.S. EPA's air office attempted today to poke holes in the scientific justification for Obama administration standards meant to protect workers from inhaling tiny and sometimes deadly silica particles.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke today told E&E News that "we are continuing to march" ahead with a major department reorganization.

For millennia, Native Americans subsisted on a spring-run of chinook salmon in California's Klamath River. But four dams have brought the species to the brink of extinction. The "springers" aren't alone.

A pair of environmental groups on Monday filed a lawsuit in an effort to stop the Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife from killing endangered wolves.

As Florida recovers from the destructive Hurricane Irma, the state's disaster management supervisor, Bryan Koon, announced his resignation yesterday.

Illinois Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner's administration is pushing to weaken emissions regulations for some of the last coal-fired power plants in the state, a change that could dirty the air in Chicago and as far away as New York.

Ford Motor Co. and Lyft Inc. announced today they will work on a self-driving vehicle for the ride-hailing service.

Dyson Ltd. plans to spend $1.34 billion to make a "radically different" electric vehicle by 2020, founder James Dyson said yesterday.

U.S. EPA has given industry more time to comply with a rule limiting formaldehyde emissions from wood products.

The United States and Mexico have decided to renew a conservation agreement that governs the management of the Colorado River.

The Department of Energy announced $15 million in new funding today to reduce the cost of desalination through solar thermal energy.

A Department of Energy employee improperly pressed the agency to hire his daughter, the DOE inspector general said in a report released today.

U.S. EPA is poised to release a new strategic plan, affording the Trump administration an opportunity to spell out a long-term vision for the agency that effectively enhances the role of state regulators.

Imagine eating a burger or steak that was made from gas in a landfill.

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