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Coal company Contura Energy Inc. today announced plans to sell two Wyoming mines once described as "core" assets, raising fresh concerns for neighboring mines with lower-grade coal and those worried about cleanup.

Five days ago, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission had been preparing to weigh in on the hotly debated Energy Department proposal to support coal and nuclear plants.

A video of an emaciated polar bear in the Arctic Circle in Canada has quickly gained traction online and become a symbol of the growing threat of climate change.

In a win for environmentalists, a Richmond, Va.-based federal court has agreed to transfer litigation over a U.S. EPA chemicals rule to the California-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Corals across South Florida's reefs are suffering from the white plague.

Federal officials say the endangered North Atlantic right whale could go extinct unless new strategies are put in place.

Firefighters are having some successes battling the fifth largest wildfire in California's history.

The Blackfeet Nation has long fought fossil fuel development in the Badger-Two Medicine area, a wilderness area next to Glacier National Park in Montana that the tribe holds sacred. But tribal officials are cautious as Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke proposes co-managing the area with the tribe, making it a national monument.

Farmers looking for a bargain on federal crop insurance may one day find that conservation pays.

Federal lands removed from Bears Ears National Monument last week hold "promise for future uranium production," according to a report from Utah's Department of Natural Resources.

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is meeting Wednesday to vote on whether to advance the nomination of R.D. James to lead the Army Corps of Engineers.

Under President Trump, U.S. EPA has slowed attempts to curb polluters and restricted the power of agency enforcement agents, The New York Times reports.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has picked Anne Idsal, a well-connected Texas state official, to lead the agency's Region 6 office.

A federal judge who is on President Trump's list of potential Supreme Court nominees added his voice last week to the growing skepticism within the judicial branch of a key doctrine deferring to federal agency decisions.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's efforts to escalate the agency's battle against lead contamination are running into a wall of skepticism and concern from environmental and public health advocates.

The man President Trump picked to regulate coal believes that mining is simply "accelerated erosion."

In a blow for utility companies, the Supreme Court has declined to step into an air permitting fight over when modifications are "major" under the Clean Air Act.

A DOE official's controversial request this summer for scientists to remove "climate change" from research abstracts was ordered by senior national lab managers and was intended to satisfy President Trump's budget request, according to emails obtained by E&E News and confirmed by a lab aide.

Most dam removal efforts are stymied by cost. This Republican businessman has figured out how to turn a profit on them.

German auto regulators are recalling Volkswagen AG's 3-liter Touareg models after reporting that they found two illegal emissions-control devices in the vehicles.

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