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September 18, 2018 at 11:04 am

EPA’s top watchdog quits amid probes of agency’s leadership

WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency's internal watchdog office announced his retirement Tuesday, leaving subordinates to pursue ongoing ethics probes involving...

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FILE – In this June 21, 2018, file photo, then-Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington. Pruitt, the scandal-plagued former chief of the EPA is denying he got any improper gifts on the job. The EPA on Wednesday, Sept. 12, released Pruitt’s financial disclosure report for 2017. The report requires Pruitt to disclose sources of income and any gifts.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) WX107 WX107

September 12, 2018 at 11:28 am

Ousted EPA head Pruitt denies getting improper gifts, income

In his official 2017 financial disclosure, in which the government requires senior officials to report gifts and sources of income, Pruitt makes no specific mention...

September 11, 2018 at 9:47 am

Trump rollback would ease rules on climate-changing methane

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration moved closer Tuesday to rolling back Obama-era rules reducing oil and gas industry leaks of methane gas, one of...

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September 6, 2018 at 1:36 pm

Congress wants EPA to more quickly regulate unsafe chemicals

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican and Democratic lawmakers pressed the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday to act faster to bring more of the country's most hazardous...

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September 4, 2018 at 7:29 am

EPA watchdog faults Pruitt’s $3.5 million security costs

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency failed to document any threats or security risks that warranted spending more than $3.5 million on unprecedented around-the-clock...

September 3, 2018 at 9:21 pm

Warnings over pollution met with a shrug in coal country VIEW

GRANT TOWN, W.Va. (AP) — It's coal people like miner Steve Knotts, 62, who make West Virginia Trump Country. So it was no surprise that...

September 3, 2018 at 6:00 am

Trump’s rollback of pollution rules to hit coal country hard VIEW

GRANT TOWN, W.Va. (AP) — It's coal people like miner Steve Knotts, 62, who make West Virginia Trump Country. So it was no surprise that...

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August 29, 2018 at 3:13 pm

EPA rethinking air pollution rule for power plants

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is considering rewriting another Obama-era rule controlling hazardous emissions from coal-fired power plants, this one on mercury and other...

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August 20, 2018 at 9:13 pm

US plan for coal power deregulation could cause more deaths

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Tuesday moved to prop up the declining coal industry with an overhaul of Obama-era pollution rules, acknowledging that...

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August 19, 2018 at 9:13 pm

Trump administration less concerned about conserving oil

WASHINGTON (AP) — Conserving oil is no longer an economic imperative for the U.S., the Trump administration declares in a major new policy statement that...

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