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While the public and the media focus on Scott Pruitt's ethics scandals, the EPA boss is quietly advancing a regulatory overhaul that could have profound implications for air quality standards.

Despite widespread attention to monarchs, painted lady butterflies have the longest known butterfly migration, new research has found.

U.S. Geological Survey scientists must get approval from the Interior Department before talking with most reporters, under a new directive from the Trump administration.

The craft beer craze in Vermont has an environmental downside.

New U.S. Geological Survey data find that American home owners are conserving an unprecedented amount of water.

Coral reefs can't grow fast enough to keep up with sea-level rise, according to new research.

Australia is on track to miss its Paris Agreement targets due to record greenhouse gas emissions.

A judge has fined a Utah-based environmental group, saying it abused the legal system.

The Supreme Court will decide whether Washington state's efforts to collect a fuel tax violate tribal treaty rights.

Officials at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., have shut down the giant panda habitat to keep things calm for Mei Xiang, who may be pregnant.

Hundreds of people cheered on endangered sea turtles who made their way back into the ocean on North Carolina's Outer Banks last week after being released from rehab.

Elk in Yellowstone National Park aren't as afraid of wolves as scientists previously thought.

The threat to monarch butterflies may be their migration, according to new research.

A documentary filming crew found seabirds that were starving to death on a remote island in the Tasman Sea because their stomachs were so full of plastic that they couldn't ingest food.

Utah's national parks have experienced a spike in rescue activities.

The Trump administration faces another lawsuit over the Interior Department's decision to reinstate two leases necessary for a controversial mining proposal in northern Minnesota.

The Trump administration has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by environmentalists over EPA's approval of Washington state's water quality standards, the first settlement the agency has participated in since Administrator Scott Pruitt’s so-called “sue and settle” directive.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry today said he wasn't ready to give details — or a timeline — for how he plans to follow through with President Trump's directive aimed at saving struggling coal and nuclear plants.

Under President Trump's reorganization plan for the federal government, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's personal security detail could have a new boss.

One of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's senior aides moved last month to an agency office in Las Vegas.

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