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U.S. EPA is seeking public feedback on its draft of a new strategic plan that outlines a dramatic shift in priorities under the Trump administration.

Crews have begun using grout to fill a partially collapsed tunnel at the Hanford nuclear reservation, the Department of Energy said yesterday.

Energy efficiency advocates are cheering two new laws in California intended to increase protections for homeowners investing in energy efficiency building retrofits.

The International Energy Agency is warning recent efficiency gains are slowing down, threatening progress on climate change and air pollution.

The Trump administration today formally proposed to repeal an Obama-era climate rule for highways.

A federal worker organization and Hawaii residents launched a lawsuit yesterday against the Federal Aviation Administration to make it regulate tour helicopters that buzz over communities in the state and national parks throughout the country.

Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy yesterday rejected a proposal that would delay his scheduled criminal trial in the wake of a mass shooting in Las Vegas — despite concerns from one of his co-defendants that the recent event could prejudice potential jurors — citing his right to a speedy trial.

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation and a half-dozen other environmental groups have followed Maryland into the courtroom to compel a U.S. EPA response on complaints out-of-state pollution is contributing to local ozone problems.

The state of Delaware urged federal judges today to knock down U.S. EPA's decision giving the Philadelphia area another year to comply with the national ozone standard.

At a remote ranch in Nevada, minimum-security inmates play an important role in managing the wild horse population in Western states.

Americans buying seafood from places like Walmart and Aldi may unknowingly be subsidizing the North Korean government.

The National Park Service is working to repair a vandalized statue of Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson in Manassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia.

Billionaire Vinod Khosla has agreed to stop blocking public access to a beach in Half Moon Bay, Calif.

The company behind the Pebble mine project today laid out a new, smaller plan for extracting a massive copper and gold deposit in southwestern Alaska.

The five living former presidents will host a concert at Texas A&M University on Oct. 21 to raise money for the areas devastated by the recent spate of hurricanes.

Americans largely disapprove of President Trump's response to the Puerto Rico hurricane crisis, according to a new poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

As recently as June, President Trump told ethanol supporters in Iowa he was saving their companies, just as he'd promised in his campaign.

Lawmakers rallied today to gain permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, a popular program that has bipartisan support.

A popular social media account identified as part of the resistance to the Trump administration suggested yesterday it may go quiet.

President Trump's pick to lead the Army Corps of Engineers owns property affected by one of the most contentious flood-control projects in the Mississippi River watershed.

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