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Investigators think they've found the culprit behind a mysterious rise in emissions of a banned, ozone-depleting chemical: China.

EPA is pressing ahead with plans to rely on the status quo to satisfy states' "good neighbor" obligations tied to compliance with its 2008 ground-level ozone standard.

Shell Offshore Inc. will pay $3.9 million to settle charges stemming from a 2016 oil spill that released roughly 81,000 gallons of crude oil off the Louisiana coast.

The remnants of Tropical Storm Beryl are expected to bring heavy rain and wind to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, testing their recovery after the devastation of Hurricane Maria last year.

A wildfire on the California-Oregon border has grown to cover 55 square miles, has killed one woman inside her home and has destroyed over 70 structures. The Klamathon Fire crossed the California state line into Oregon last night and is 25 percent contained.

California officials on Friday unveiled a water management plan aimed at boosting fish habitat, the latest development in the state's long-running water wars.

Late last week, the United States and China locked horns in a multibillion-dollar trade dispute that appears destined to undercut the Alaska seafood industry's campaign to expand its sales into China's domestic restaurants, hotels and retail markets.

A GOP congressman wants to know if the Interior Department will reimburse New York City for the Fourth of July rescue of a woman who climbed the Statute of Liberty to protest the Trump administration's immigration policy.

The Trump administration has appointed an aide to Rep. David McKinley (R-W.Va.) as deputy assistant secretary for clean coal and carbon management, a position central to the federal government's efforts on lowering carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels.

Getting elected governor of Virginia didn't solve Ralph Northam's pipeline problems.

EPA is seeking to again give oil refineries more time to meet one set of requirements in its updated emission standards released in late 2015.

EPA has sent a long-stalled final rule affecting "project aggregation" requirements under its New Source Review permitting program to the White House Office of Management and Budget for a standard review.

The Interior Department has revamped its handling of senior staff reassignments, Deputy Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said in an interview.

In the wake of Scott Pruitt's ouster, conservative news outlets have rallied to the former EPA administrator's defense, following a familiar playbook dating back to at least the Watergate era, according to media watchers.