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Indiana is challenging U.S. EPA's recent decision to deem a pocket in the northeastern part of the state as out of compliance with its 2010 sulfur dioxide air quality standard.

A California advocacy group is suing U.S. EPA to prod action on a ground-level ozone cleanup plan for the San Joaquin Valley.

Environmentalists today filed suit against the Trump administration seeking documents they said would show whether the Heartland Institute has exercised "disproportionate or improper influence" over U.S. EPA.

At least one algal toxin was found in 99 percent of mussels collected from the San Francisco Bay, according to new research.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) yesterday issued an executive order aimed at protecting endangered orcas, whose numbers have dropped to a 30-year low.

Varroa mites are tiny bugs that deserve a bigger reputation for killing honey bees, according to a researcher looking for better ways to fight them.

SALT LAKE CITY — Over the course of an hour, former Interior Department official John Leshy sped through nearly 250 years of U.S. public lands history, from boundary disputes that held up adoption of the Articles of Confederation to present day budget battles for land-management agencies.

New York Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter, who has served in the House since 1987, is in the hospital after falling at her house in Washington a few days ago.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today easily approved regulatory reform legislation, but at least one Democrat questioned the sponsor's motive.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry defended his agency's budget request this morning to House lawmakers who expressed frustrations about both specific line items and their interactions with the Trump administration.

The nation's largest oil and gas lobby group is dining at Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., today before heading over to the White House to discuss tariffs with the president.

The natural gas industry is asking the Trump administration to immediately exempt all imported steel used in liquefied natural gas export facilities from the president's 25 percent tariff, saying additional costs will harm the prospects for U.S. projects amid intense global competition.

The Trump administration is directing the Department of Justice to get "back to basics" on environmental enforcement in a memo released today.

A Silicon Valley tech billionaire has taken his bid to block public access to a beach next to his property to the Supreme Court, casting the case as a constitutional showdown with California.

President Trump has made rolling back regulations a top priority for his administration, and U.S. EPA has been leading that charge. But the agency faces formidable challenges in federal courts.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke indicated this morning that all coastal states are still under consideration for potential offshore drilling in the administration's ongoing analysis of its five-year proposal.

Federal regulators last night reinstated permits for a major Southeast natural gas network at the center of an unprecedented climate battle that almost shut the project down.

Residents of Mongolia's capital city burn coal to keep warm in the brutal winters. The fumes cause health problems and massive pollution, but there is little choice.