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U.S. EPA plans to issue a draft decision by Sunday that Obama-era clean car rules are too aggressive and should be relaxed.

The Bureau of Land Management has quietly begun a detailed study evaluating whether to formally amend dozens of land-use plans to remove greater sage grouse conservation measures approved by the Obama administration in 2015.

A struggling electric utility asked the Department of Energy today to offer an emergency lifeline for coal and nuclear power plants in the eastern United States.

An Iowa man who said his hometown smells like "rancid dog food" won a lawsuit yesterday after he was threatened by city officials.

Employees say the Virginia Department of Transportation suffers from a pervasive culture of corruption, with seven people recently convicted in a sweeping investigation that exposed drugs, lies and bribery.

A Minnesota judge yesterday upheld an earlier landmark ruling and blasted the state Department of Natural Resources, noting a "stunning" history of failing to enforce state environmental laws.

Volkswagen AG has bought back around 350,000 diesel vehicles in the United States. So where is it keeping them all?

Tesla Inc. announced yesterday it would recall around 123,000 Model S sedans over a bolt issue.

A U.S. Geological Survey office that has been around for 133 years has been removed from the chopping block — for now.

Three major petrochemical companies in Louisiana will pay $11 million over allegations of illegally dumping hazardous waste.

In order to comply with state energy law, Duke Energy Corp. has turned to North Carolina pig poop.

The Tennessee Valley Authority's inspector general says the federally owned utility was not justified in spending nearly $18 million on a pair of corporate aircraft.

Federal officials will once again open bidding on more than 77 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico this summer.

A federal judge yesterday threw out a lawsuit Exxon Mobil Corp. had filed against state attorneys general investigating the company's climate change statements.

A California man has been charged with starting a fire that burned parts of the historic Oasis of Mara at Joshua Tree National Park on Monday.

A judge has determined that Starbucks Corp. and about 90 other companies, including stores, must put warnings on coffee sold in California about a cancer-causing byproduct.

The attorney for the man charged with assaulting Interior Department press secretary Heather Swift is now casting a wide net for video evidence of the March 15 encounter.

The Marine Mammal Center in California has asked beachgoers to refrain from taking selfies with the seal pups trying to catch some rays on the Northern California shores during pupping season.

After a deadly fungal disease wiped out populations of frogs and toads in Panama over a decade ago, their rhythmic croaks can be heard again.

Record-breaking rainfall in Texas during Hurricane Harvey had researchers concerned that all that fresh water would hurt the corals in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary.

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