Eric Lipton | The Seattle Times

August 24, 2018 at 4:09 pm

EPA proposal would let dirtiest coal plants keep spewing pollutants

Industry lawyers and former federal officials say the policy shift is one of the most consequential pieces of the Environmental Protection Agency proposal, made public...

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July 15, 2018 at 6:19 pm

Tracing Guccifer 2.0’s many tentacles in the 2016 election

The filed Friday by the special counsel, Robert Mueller, provides never-before-seen detail of how the Russian cyberspies operated, based on intercepts that had to have...

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EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt at the Vatican in June. MUST CREDIT: Photo courtesy of Environmental Protection Agency 126.0.7372410

July 5, 2018 at 6:18 pm

EPA aide questioned deleting Pruitt meeting details, then was fired

An aide to Scott Pruitt lost her job this past year, according to a former senior staffer, after objecting that the changes to official calendars...

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April 21, 2018 at 4:35 pm

Pruitt did meet with lobbyist whose wife rented condo to the EPA chief

The Smithfield Foods disclosure was made the same day J. Steven Hart announced he was stepping down as chairman of Williams & Jensen, instead of...

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March 2, 2018 at 3:58 pm

Oil was central in decision to shrink Bears Ears monument, emails show

The debate started as early as March 2017, when an aide to Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, asked a senior Interior Department official to consider shrinking...

February 24, 2018 at 5:59 pm

NRA’s clout is in power to mobilize supporters

In Florida and other states, as well as on Capitol Hill, the National Rifle Association derives its political influence not from direct campaign donations but...

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October 21, 2017 at 5:47 pm

Chemical industry insider now a top EPA hazards watchdog

Trump appointee Nancy B. Beck, once a Washington state toxicologist, is now a leading voice within the Environmental Protection Agency for deregulation moves that could...

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August 6, 2017 at 7:05 pm

Under Trump, coal mining gets new life on federally-owned land

The question of whether to allow more coal mining on federal land brings up one of the oldest and most contentious debates in the West...

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May 26, 2017 at 7:36 pm

White House backs down on keeping ethics waivers secret

The waivers are needed when administration officials want to work on policies or other government issues that they were directly involved in recently as private-sector...

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Devon Energyâ€™s Beaver Creek Gas Plant outside Riverton, Wyo., May 3, 2017. Devon Energy is the first known example under the Trump administration of an accused polluter â€” which has admitted violating the law â€” backing away from a proposed environmental settlement. It is already being hailed by other independent energy companies as a template for the future. (Ryan Dorgan/The New York Times)

May 20, 2017 at 4:53 pm

Rollback of EPA rules already benefiting one gas company

Devon’s pushback is the first known example under the Trump administration of an accused polluter backing away from a proposed environmental settlement.

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