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A Wyoming state legislator has floated a measure with national ramifications on the federal fee that pays to clean up old coal mines.

Two men in Florida will spend seven months in prison for moving sea turtle eggs with the idea of selling them.

Ten states and the District of Columbia said today they are objecting to a Trump administration decision to drop a penalty against Harley-Davidson Inc. for cheating on air pollution tests.

Washington state's attorney general is suing the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for records related to the agency's consideration of an ultimately rejected plan to compensate coal and nuclear plants.

Environmental groups have filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit over U.S. EPA's delayed responses to FOIA document requests.

A federal court is giving U.S. EPA another three months to enforce certain pollution reporting requirements at livestock operations around the country.

A tiny, valuable eel is causing conflict between New York state's environment agency and Shinnecock Indians, who have been fishing on the East End of Long Island for centuries.

More than 40 percent of California is experiencing moderate drought and the Sierra Nevada snowpack is lower than normal, officials said yesterday, ending the state's brief respite from arid weather.

Palmer "Chip" Jenkins will be the next superintendent at Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state.

Water supplies in the Midwest Corn Belt continue to be plagued by high nitrate levels tied to agricultural runoff, an environmental group said in a new report.

A coalition of environmental groups is challenging the federal government's move to lease lands for oil and gas drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

The day before a train carrying Republican members of Congress slammed into a garbage truck near Crozet, Va., the safety arms at the railroad crossing appeared not to be working properly, locals say.

The House's top watchdogs are asking how much the federal government has paid out to settle employee sexual harassment cases.

The Humane Society of the United States has decided not to fire its CEO over sexual harassment allegations, prompting seven board members to resign in protest.

President Trump will again seek to zero out the U.S. Chemical Safety Board in his fiscal 2019 budget plan, according to a senior government official familiar with the proposal.

A longtime advocate for conservative state energy issues and former White House staffer in the George W. Bush administration is joining the Department of Energy as a political appointee.

U.S. EPA has begun releasing its senior leaders' calendars like it has for Administrator Scott Pruitt.

The American Farm Bureau Federation has launched a Twitter campaign using flocks of rubber ducks to push for limits to regulated waters of the United States, or WOTUS.

Richard Painter could be living a quiet life right about now.

Spoiler alert: Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has previewed how his department's budget drama is about to unfold.

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