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The Trump administration entered its consent decree yesterday against Harley-Davidson Motor Co. for cheating on air pollution tests, despite the opposition of state attorneys general and environmentalists who say the company is getting off easy.

Sen. Steve Daines is sponsoring legislation that would remove nearly 450,000 acres of wilderness study areas the Montana Republican says impede recreational opportunities on Forest Service lands in his home state.

Nominees to lead the U.S. Energy Information Administration and for the Interior Department breezed through a Senate committee this morning, setting them up for confirmation by the full Senate.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's reorganization plan is still under wraps, but a new memo from the department's second in command about senior executives indicates the Trump officials are looking to an unlikely source for inspiration: the Obama administration.

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Democrats accused President Trump's nominee to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality of plagiarism today, demanding that she provide fresh answers to their questions.

U.S. EPA's inspector general will scrutinize Administrator Scott Pruitt's soundproof phone booth.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's defense of his helicopter travel raises questions about a big Virginia power line project and about what he meant by his explanation of a flight.

Belgium is one of the world's most light-polluted countries, a massive center of electricity use that can be seen from the International Space Station.

European Union nations will set new quotas to fish the northeastern Atlantic and the North Sea more sustainably in 2018, but environmental groups say they are off track to end overfishing by 2020.

A small Oregon glassmaker is suing Gov. Kate Brown (D) and her top environmental official, alleging that the company was used as a scapegoat.

Environmentalists are mobilizing against state politicians and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources as Republicans push for a sandhill crane hunt.

A major steel manufacturer neglected to test for a highly toxic chemical after spilling a blue liquid into a tributary of Lake Michigan in October, according to documents released yesterday by Indiana regulators.

Minnesota regulators decided yesterday to limit the use of weedkillers made by Monsanto Co. and BASF SE that contain the chemical dicamba, joining several other states.

The Department of Energy has launched an investigation at Los Alamos National Laboratory after an employee was nearly killed in an incident in September.

A top executive at a Russian nuclear plant confirmed today that the site releases the same radioactive isotope that spiked over Europe this fall.

Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline said at a hearing yesterday that Nebraska regulators weren't authorized to approve an alternative route.

The Department of Defense isn't doing enough to prepare for climate change at overseas bases despite warnings from military leaders stretching back more than a decade, the government's top watchdog said in a report released today.