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Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today defended a budget request that would slash crop insurance and conservation programs in the next fiscal year — but hinted he resisted some of the proposed cutbacks.

The White House Council of Economic Advisers has a few suggestions for how to pay for President Trump's infrastructure plan, and they don't include raising the gasoline tax.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's top aide for the Superfund program was already working at the agency last year when he agreed to a lifetime ban from banking, the business where he'd spent most of his career.

A former top lawyer at a global petrochemical company is now the political deputy in U.S. EPA's waste office.

The mining industry wants to turn the infrastructure push at the White House and on Capitol Hill into achieving its top goal: making permitting move faster.

Travis Fisher, a Trump political appointee at the center of a contentious Department of Energy study on coal and nuclear plant closures, is leaving DOE.

The protest departures of two top U.S. Geological Survey officials put a spotlight on how the Interior Department employs scientific data and on the sometimes strained relations between political appointees and professional staff.

With fanfare, U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt convened top officials from across the government last week to discuss a coordinated federal effort to combat lead poisoning. What did they do? Hard to say.

Afghanistan has broken ground on a 1,127-mile natural gas pipeline across a war-torn region.

Feeding wild monkeys in Florida could cost you $500 under a new feeding ban approved by the state wildlife board.

Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said today that he will create a task force to tally the deaths from Hurricane Maria.

Idaho lawmakers yesterday approved new school science standards — in full, including climate change — ending three years of debate in the state Legislature.

Wyoming lawmakers may cut off funding to an independent environmental review board that rejected a coal mining permit.

An environmentally friendly fitness craze that took root in Europe is making its way to the United States.

Colorado will pay Nebraska $4 million to settle claims that Colorado violated a water-sharing deal on the Republican River.

Five current and former employees of central California's Panoche Water District have been charged with a variety of felonies over accusations of illegally burying chemical waste and improperly using public funds.

The owner of a Pennsylvania power plant can't be counted on to voluntarily curb ozone-forming pollution, two public speakers said this morning in urging U.S. EPA to reverse a preliminary decision and grant Connecticut's bid for lasting curbs on the facility's releases.

U.S. coal jobs increased by 1,001 from 2016 to 2017, according to a review of data from the Mine Safety and Health Administration.

Sunday morning talk shows largely excluded scientists and climate journalists from conversations about global warming in 2017, according to Media Matters for America, a progressive press watchdog.

Eight Republican Pennsylvania congressmen filed suit in federal court yesterday, arguing that the state Supreme Court violated its authority in drawing a new congressional map and did not give state lawmakers enough time to draw a map of their own.

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