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The Justice Department won't issue de facto regulations through guidance documents, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a departmentwide memorandum last week.

The Trump administration would pay for hurricane relief in part by cutting conservation and research at the Department of Agriculture — an idea that's running into a roadblock from advocates for those programs.

President Trump on Friday added five individuals to his list of potential Supreme Court nominees, including a conservative judge on the influential U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Hurricane Harvey's catastrophic rains and flooding are long gone, but the litigation is just beginning.

President Trump's abrupt U-turn on elephant trophy imports could undermine his own appointees, break standard practice and all but invite a legal challenge from his customary allies.

Nebraska regulators approved the Keystone XL pipeline today, handing President Trump a victory two years after his predecessor blocked the project.

LAS VEGAS — Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy has spent the last 21 months in federal custody, but his cattle remain home on the range, grazing illegally on public lands the same way they have for more than 20 years.

General Electric Co. has signed a $400 million deal with Iraq to build up its power infrastructure, a major boon as the country struggles with shortages.

The Venezuelan government has detained the acting president of Citgo Petroleum Corp., along with five vice presidents of the U.S. subsidiary of the country's state-run oil company, officials said yesterday.

Chaos was lurking in the bushes at this year's annual pre-Thanksgiving turkey pardoning party in Utah.

South Carolina's Fairfield County plans to sue Scana Corp. over its cancellation of two nuclear reactors, claiming breach of contract.

The pesticide company Terminix International Co. LP will pay $9.2 million in criminal fines for using a banned pesticide that nearly killed a Delaware family on vacation on the Caribbean island of St. John in 2015, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

A new study has found that air pollution could affect sperm quality, potentially damaging male fertility.

More than 1 million African-Americans face a higher risk of developing cancer because of toxic emissions from nearby oil and gas facilities, according to a recent report that also links the industry to higher asthma rates for black children and urges stepped-up advocacy efforts to close or remove such infrastructure.

A wastewater plant operated by BASF Total Petrochemicals LLC in Port Arthur, Texas, was responsible for the largest single wastewater spill during Hurricane Harvey, with more than 100 million gallons released. But the spill did not hurt the environment, according to the company.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission this month quietly extended the maximum license term for in-situ uranium recovery operations from 10 to 20 years.

If an investigation finds TransCanada Corp. violated its license in the Keystone spill last week, South Dakota could rescind its operating permit for the pipeline, state regulators said yesterday.

A new study suggests climate change makes bearded dragons less intelligent.

A federal lawsuit from environmentalists and tribal advocates opposing the Keystone XL pipeline will continue.

Federal officials hit Massachusetts commercial fishermen with an unprecedented penalty yesterday, ordering scores of boats back to shore, after the New England fishing mogul known as the "Codfather" evaded fishing quotas in a massive fraud.

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