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U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has brought on a longtime agency attorney to help coordinate EPA's anti-lead effort with other federal agencies.

President Trump nominated former Republican National Committee general counsel John Ryder on Friday to the board of the Tennessee Valley Authority, giving the GOP a potential majority on the panel for the first time in eight years.

In a new book released today, former National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis and scientist Gary Machlis quote singer-songwriter Bob Dylan to argue that climate change will bring "hardships, disruptions and fundamental changes" to the planet.

The Trump administration's effort to block the Obama-era Clean Water Rule will take effect tomorrow, and lawsuits over the blockade likely will be filed shortly thereafter.

A federal complaint filed Friday is shedding light on the unexpected departure of a major utility company from the Nuclear Energy Institute, the industry's top trade group.

New Mexico's attorney general is bringing what he calls his "street fight for justice" to a broad state-led legal assault against President Trump's regulatory rollbacks.

As Germany's nuclear and coal-fired plants are shuttered, the country needs to focus on natural gas-fired plants as a backup, according to a top gas manager.

Oil has defined life in Saudi Arabia for decades, but the country is now looking to reshape its energy mix.

The Russian military has been called to Moscow to help clear the streets after the city's biggest snowstorm in recorded history.

The Utah state House of Representatives yesterday voted to give radioactive waste company EnergySolutions a tax break, sparking outrage from environmentalists and state Democrats.

Pennsylvanian regulators want to more than double the cost for obtaining a permit to drill a shale gas well in the Keystone State.

Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf is expected to ask for a new tax on natural gas drillers in his budget to the GOP-held state Legislature.

The 2014-15 outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in Flint, Mich. — which killed 12 people and sickened dozens — can be traced to changes in the city's water supply, according to two new studies.

As climate change heightens the danger of flooding, more than 2,500 facilities that handle toxic chemicals are located in flood-prone areas, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

While ground-level ozone concentrations have dropped across much of the United States in recent years, tens of millions of people in Texas and other areas of the country were still regularly exposed to unhealthy amounts from 2010 to 2014, according to data gleaned from a new worldwide study.

The government's top ethics official urged federal employees yesterday to focus on regaining public trust in light of polling that shows a growing public mistrust of the government since President Trump took office.

An engineer operating an Amtrak train that crashed Sunday in South Carolina slowed to 50 mph and sounded the horn for three seconds before slamming into the back of a stationary freight train, federal investigators said yesterday.

Michigan regulators yesterday demanded answers from DTE Electric Co. about the shutoff of thousands of customers' power without adequate notification.

South Australia is planning to create a massive virtual power plant by installing solar panels and batteries built by Tesla Inc. in at least 50,000 houses.

Hundreds of Native American miners and their families marched on the Arizona Capitol today asking for support to keep the embattled Navajo Generating Station online.

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