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The House this morning passed its version of the annual defense authorization bill, including controversial language on mine permitting and sage grouse protections.

Capitol Hill and Interior Department veteran Jason Larrabee has now landed as a senior policy adviser at the government relations firm Van Ness Feldman LLP.

President Trump late yesterday asked the Commerce Department to investigate whether tariffs on vehicle imports are necessary for national security, sowing global alarm and confusion.

EPA, yielding to a barrage of extension requests, is adding more than two months to the public comment period for its contested plan to restrict the agency's handling of science and has scheduled a public hearing for mid-July in Washington, D.C., according to a notice posted online late yesterday.

The top career EPA official responsible for safeguarding the nation's drinking water supply couldn't say yesterday how Administrator Scott Pruitt's controversial move to restrict the types of scientific studies the agency can use might affect its efforts to protect the public from toxic nonstick chemicals.

EPA leaned heavily on input from Republican politicians and advocacy groups in devising membership standards last year for its sprawling network of advisory committees, according to more than 700 pages of records released late yesterday in response to a federal court order.

Records show EPA officials wanted to keep tabs on how Administrator Scott Pruitt was being covered by newspapers back home in Oklahoma.

The Trump administration is taking rare action against a Pennsylvania law firm for filing Clean Water Act citizen suits.

An employee at a Scottish fisheries office is suing the federal government over what she described as years of harassment and bullying by male colleagues at a northern branch of the national fisheries watchdog.

Royal Dutch Shell PLC has been accused of trying to bury a report that found widespread environmental damage surrounding the site of its two oil spills in Nigeria a decade ago.

The massive bog clogging up a northern Minnesota lake will stay parked in front of a beach for the Memorial Day weekend.

South Carolina officials are blaming Dominion Energy Inc. for the temporary shutdown of a public water system.

More than a dozen coal-carrying barges broke loose outside Pittsburgh yesterday afternoon and floated down the Monongahela River.

The Tesla Model S that crashed into a fire truck in Utah earlier this month while in Autopilot mode sped up moments before the accident, according to a police report.

The Uber self-driving SUV that struck and killed a pedestrian in March misidentified the woman as another vehicle and didn't have its emergency braking system activated, federal safety investigators said yesterday.

An accident at a Wisconsin frack sand mine has released millions of gallons of sludge into waterways. The orange plume has reached the Mississippi River, and state officials are testing for environmental and health threats.

The State Department and several federal agencies will begin negotiations next week on a new Columbia River Treaty, but Native American tribes say they have been left out of the conversation.

Even if EPA has now made almost all attainment designations for its 2015 ground-level ozone standard, the agency is still breaking the law by failing to officially publish them, a coalition of states and advocacy groups said in court papers this week.

An administrative law judge has ordered Sunoco Inc. to shut down its Mariner East 1 pipeline — again. Construction on Mariner East 2 must also stop for now.

Keeping cows on a diet of seaweed could lessen the methane emissions caused by their gas, according to preliminary research.

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