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A New York businessman was sentenced Friday to 1 ½ years in prison for trafficking over $150,000 worth of juvenile eels.

U.S. EPA plans to make a fresh attempt at meeting Clean Air Act emissions requirements for brick and ceramic tile manufacturers by the summer of 2019 — slightly less than 20 years after the rule was originally due, according to agency chief Scott Pruitt.

In the wake of the wildfires that devastated California's wine country, hundreds of volunteers are collecting acorns in an effort to save the region's scorched oak trees.

The activists who had once planned to place a 45-foot-tall statue of a naked woman on the National Mall have a new plan to project feminine power in one of the nation's most symbolic places.

An adult female vaquita porpoise died in captivity after researchers captured it in an effort to save the world's smallest porpoise from extinction.

New Mexico ranchers have won a long-running court battle over their claim on stock water in a national forest. And they did it, a judge noted pointedly, without lethal weapons.

A key House Republican made his opposition official to the Department of Energy's controversial plan to boost coal and nuclear plants last week in a bipartisan letter urging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to take its time as it considers the proposal.

House Democrats are urging U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to withdraw a policy barring members of agency advisory boards from receiving EPA grants.

An extended absence by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), as he recovers from injuries suffered during an assault this weekend, could complicate Republican plans to quickly advance their agenda, including drilling in the Arctic.

Former U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy is now a Harvard University professor.

The Government Accountability Office will investigate whether U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt broke any rules by appearing in a video for a beef industry group.

Concerned that an appeals court stay of the contentious Clean Water Rule is at risk, U.S. EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers are working to delay the effective date of the Obama-era regulation.

GUERNEVILLE, Calif. — Wildfires ravaged 160,000 acres in wine country last month, killed more than 40 people, destroyed almost 9,000 structures — and spurred demand from homeowners looking for help protecting houses at the forest's edge.

A dispute over a 147-acre Michigan tract being held in trust for a Native American tribe is once again headed to the Supreme Court.

Rushing to defend himself, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross today said he did nothing wrong by failing to tell Congress that a shipping company he's invested in has close business ties with Russian oligarchs and President Vladimir Putin's immediate family.

Robert Phalen, an air pollution researcher just named to a key U.S. EPA advisory committee, is defending earlier comments that the air can be "a little too clean" for children's health as grounded in the broader field of pulmonary medicine.