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EPA scientists wanted their agency to ask for a new environmental review of the proposed Pebble mine project but were overridden by political staffers, according to several sources and a key document obtained by E&E News.

Federal regulators are seeking a fine from a Louisiana liquefied natural gas plant in connection with a leak that occurred the day after a visit from President Trump.

When the Navajo Generating Station in Arizona shuts down later this year, it will be one of the largest carbon emitters to ever close in American history. Other massive coal plants are also being retired.

The world is gradually becoming less green, scientists have found. Plant growth is declining all over the planet, and new research links the phenomenon to decreasing moisture in the air — a consequence of climate change.

EPA officials today heard repeated and sometimes heated calls to scrap plans for formally unraveling a Clinton-era policy aimed at limiting industry emissions of benzene, mercury and dozens of other hazardous air pollutants.

A pending Trump administration plan could weaken Obama-era methane standards, putting the focus on state and corporate efforts to curb the greenhouse gas. But experts say existing laws do not cover most of the oil and gas sector.

The advocacy network headed by billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, which often pushes for lenient environmental standards, is reorganizing and rebranding.

The Green New Deal is wildly unpopular among voters, but that's if they hear the Republican sales pitch, according to new polling from the center-right American Action Network.

Scientists in New Zealand said today they've found fossilized bones from an extinct monster penguin that was about the size of an adult human and swam the oceans some 60 million years ago.

American Bar Association leadership joined the movement toward net-zero emissions this week, urging "the adoption of a wide range of legal measures" to combat climate change.

President Trump's visit to a Royal Dutch Shell PLC ethane cracker plant yesterday placed him at the center of a facility that demonstrates how the plastics industry is contributing to climate change.

The former head of the Climate and Health Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to file a whistleblower complaint, E&E News has learned.

EPA has selected a new head for its Native American policy office.

China's solar industry has achieved "grid parity," or the point whereby it's considered cost-competitive with traditional sources of electricity, according to a new study.

The Trump administration is ordering a sweeping environmental review of the burgeoning offshore wind industry, a move that threatens to derail the nation's first major project and raises a host of questions for future developments.