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The Senate Agriculture Committee's 2018 farm bill wouldn't cut farmland conservation programs — but that's about the best news conservation advocacy groups could glean from the measure today.

Advocates for incarcerated father-and-son ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond believe the duo could see their current prison sentences commuted, saying high-level Trump administration officials are considering a petition urging that the pair be released from federal custody.

President Trump today defended his embattled EPA chief, Scott Pruitt, as a victim of unfair media coverage while leaving the door open for further scrutiny.

Elaborate oil paintings of former EPA bosses line a hallway outside of Administrator Scott Pruitt's third-floor office at agency headquarters. But the completed portrait of the last Obama-era EPA chief, Gina McCarthy, is still in storage. Meanwhile, Pruitt photos adorn the halls, and the agency plans to hang even more.

The head of Vermont Law School's storied environmental law program has resigned as the school undergoes "restructuring" to overcome financial problems.

Dumps are quickly ballooning in size in Delhi thanks to a combination of cultural and economic factors, creating a hazardous — and at times deadly — risk.

Decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, its effects are still being felt.

Jubilation fell over the lake in Legionville, Minn., yesterday, as volunteer crews won a weekslong battle with a massive bog that had parked in front of a popular beach.

Authorities have recovered the body of a missing Florida woman after some of her remains were found inside an alligator.

The District of Columbia has found that a huge, long-term effort to bring back Washington's urban forest is making progress, but a recent Forest Service study calls that into question.

Elon Musk's first 1,000 flamethrowers were handed out Saturday at an event in Hawthorne, Calif., and his biggest fans traveled thousands of miles to be there.

A marshy basin that was meant to serve as the boundary to Miami's urban front could be purchased and converted into highway.

An Australian professor known as the father of photovoltaics has won the Global Energy Prize, beating out big names including Tesla Inc. founder Elon Musk.

A wind project deemed harmful to North Dakota prairie and local wildlife is moving forward after the developer paid $557,000 to Ducks Unlimited.

Power lines and other equipment owned by PG&E Corp. caused 12 Northern California fires that killed 18 people and burned 174,000 acres last fall, according to state fire investigators.

A Virginia grand jury has indicted the driver of the truck that was hit by an Amtrak train carrying Republican lawmakers.

The Trump administration, seeking to tamp down unrest among Republican state allies, has asked a federal court to give it until August to plot a next move on EPA's contested 2015 ground-level ozone standard.