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Former EPA administrators have some advice for the new guy.

When acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler laid out the need for more certainty to agency employees in a get-acquainted speech Wednesday, his top priority might have come as a surprise: risk communication.

EPA's new boss, Andrew Wheeler, sat down for an exclusive interview with E&E News today. He discussed his plans for policies, transparency and Scott Pruitt's soundproof booth.

At first glance, it may seem like just a black truck filled with bottles of water, but a closer look reveals a darker — or rather murkier — side to what's sloshing around inside.

Is it a blue whale or not? The slaughter in Iceland of what some say was a member of the endangered species has triggered outrage and left experts puzzled about its true identity.

A club-and-machete-wielding mob in Indonesia killed nearly 300 crocodiles in an act of revenge after a local man was killed by one of the reptiles, authorities said today.

A jaguar that escaped its enclosure early Saturday morning at a New Orleans zoo went on a killing spree that left eight animals dead — including all five of the zoo's alpacas — and injured one fox. The other victims were two foxes and one emu.

A teenager in Virginia has been released from the hospital after suffering third-degree burns from the sap of a giant hogweed plant, according to WTVR, a local CBS affiliate.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) intends to sue industrial plastics giant 3M Co. over contamination identified near current and former military sites.

Mining companies, which have long turned to technology to reduce costs, now see public relations benefits in finding greener ways to dig.

A boil-water advisory issued Friday that affected about 100,000 residents in northeast and northwest Washington, D.C., was likely caused by a maintenance worker who left a valve open at a pumping station, said officials who are familiar with the investigation.

Vice President Mike Pence's father helped establish a network of more than 200 gas stations across the Midwest that made the family wealthy.

A British cave diver is considering suing Elon Musk after the inventor called him a "pedo" on Twitter yesterday.

The Trump administration on Friday asked a federal court to throw out a lawsuit over EPA's decision to exempt refiners from annual renewable fuel requirements.

The sound of AC/DC and other rock bands has an adverse effect on some insects, according to new research, and that in turn spells bad news for soybeans.

A federal judge will hear evidence tomorrow from a lawsuit filed by opponents of opening up Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, a former nuclear weapons manufacturing site managed by the Fish and Wildlife Service.

Levels of pesticides, flame retardants and other pollutants are falling in the Delaware Estuary, which is helping the osprey population recover, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey study.

A wildfire has killed a California firefighter and closed a main route into Yosemite National Park.

The Fish and Wildlife Service has decided to allow Mazda Toyota Manufacturing USA to continue working on a $1.6 billion plant in Alabama after concerns over a rare fish halted work.

With international negotiators starting two weeks of meetings in Kingston, Jamaica, to hash out regulations for ocean-floor mining, environmentalists are urging regulators to move cautiously.

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