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U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is not taking a high-profile trip to Israel this week after he has faced renewed scrutiny over his travels.

A global climate pact to reduce potent greenhouse gases set to skyrocket in the developing world is on ice following the exit of a key White House aide.

George David Banks, who resigned his White House energy post last week over his admitted use of marijuana in 2013, pondered his future in an E&E News interview. A spot at either the Department of Energy or the Interior is possible, he said. So is a return to K Street. "Going back to be a full-time swamp creature,” he said, “is certainly an attractive option."

Heavy rains collapsed a massive garbage dump yesterday in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, killing 17.

Pollution and development are threatening a vast underwater archaeology site in Mexico.

Wyoming state lawmakers are considering a bill to eliminate state medical assistance for coal miners who have worked less than 10 years.

Michigan lawmakers are trying to get tough on contractors that break environmental and workplace regulations on asbestos, after a series of articles in the Detroit Free Press found a "lack of oversight" of contractors in Detroit, which is in the middle of a huge redevelopment project. Thousands of homes have been knocked down.

Predictions of strong winds are keeping residents on edge in rural central California, where a wildfire put hundreds of buildings in danger yesterday.

The percentage of Alaskans in the state's oil industry dropped in 2016, leaving valuable employment to nonresidents, according to state data.

Despite incurring a safety violation, a coal company was not responsible for a miner's death last year, Wyoming's state mining inspector has found.

A month after President Trump roiled the solar industry by slapping tariffs on imported solar panels, his administration is proposing a steel tariff that is stirring up another part of the energy sector: pipeline developers.

A federal judge yesterday signed off on a $300 million loan for Puerto Rico's electric utility, averting looming power outages and temporarily keeping the beleaguered agency in business.

Eric Lundgren, a pioneer in the art of recycling electronic waste, could land in prison over what he said was an effort to keep secondhand computers out of landfills.

An appeals court today considered U.S. EPA decisions to add sites to a list of the nation's most contaminated areas, including a large mining district that contains the Gold King abandoned mine.

The group that controls emojis will add two more legs to the recently announced lobster image after complaints that it was anatomically incorrect.

Some tropical resorts and travel companies are trying to save the world's coral reefs from sunscreen.

Scientists on Cape Cod, Mass., want to try out a new way to save North Atlantic right whales, but lobstermen worry the strategy could destroy their industry.

The Bureau of Reclamation is looking for a $100,000 idea from the public for eliminating quagga and zebra mussels.

Wyoming-based attorney Karen Budd-Falen, a potential pick to lead the Bureau of Land Management, has joined the legal team for the defendant in the Snake River Ranch dispute.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court yesterday released a new congressional map that looks to give Democrats a significant boost, potentially moving them closer to their goal of taking the U.S. House this fall. State Republican leaders are likely to challenge the map in court.

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