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EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks ...

Scott Pruitt once said Trump “would be more abusive to the Constitution than Barack Obama – and that’s saying a lot”

January 30, 2018 at 11:25 a.m.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said in a 2016 interview that "Donald Trump in the White House would be more abusive to the Constitution than Barack Obama," according to...

Coal miner Scott Tiller crawls through ...

Trump administration cancels detailed review of Obama-era mining ban near Minnesota wilderness

January 26, 2018 at 9:47 p.m.

The Trump administration on Friday curtailed a detailed review of how cordoning off more than 234,000 acres of U.S. Forest Service land in Minnesota from mining development would affect a...

White House plan would reduce environmental requirements for infrastructure projects

January 26, 2018 at 4:39 p.m.

WASHINGTON - The White House has drafted a proposal to scale back environmental requirements in an effort to make it easier to construct roads, bridges and pipelines across the country...

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Trump administration seeks new ways to allow people to dodge Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate

January 24, 2018 at 11:04 p.m.

The Trump administration is exploring ways to excuse more Americans from the requirement that they prove they're insured in the remaining months before the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate is...

From left, EPA chief Scott Pruitt, U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, and Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper tour the Gold King Mine near Silverton on Aug. 4, 2017.

At Superfund sites, Scott Pruitt could flip his industry-friendly script

January 23, 2018 at 1:55 p.m.

Not long after Hurricane Harvey battered Houston last summer, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt stood on the banks of the San Jacinto River and surveyed a decades-old toxic waste...

Visitors to the Rocky Mountain National Park get a good view of the Forest Canyon area along Trail Ridge road September 10, 2016.

Trump officials weigh keeping national parks open even if government shuts down

January 18, 2018 at 8:04 p.m.

As a Friday deadline for a government shutdown approached, the Trump administration began setting plans in motion to halt scores of federal functions - even as it scrambled to keep...

As nearby anti-abortion activists held ...

New HHS civil rights division charged with protecting health-care workers with moral objections

January 18, 2018 at 9:01 p.m.

Moving to solidify its credentials with social conservatives, the Trump administration is creating an office to protect the religious rights of medical providers, including those who oppose abortion.

The National Park Service Advisory Board members who just quit en masse said they tried unsuccessfully to engage with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, seen here at an event in Washington, D.C., in September.

Nearly all members of National Park Service advisory panel resign in frustration

January 17, 2018 at 12:10 a.m.

Three-quarters of the members of a federally chartered board advising the National Park Service abruptly quit Monday night out of frustration that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke had refused to meet...

In this Dec. 14, 2017 photo a snowy owl stares prior being released along the shore of Duxbury Beach in Duxbury, Mass.

17 former wildlife officials urge Interior to rethink easing rules against killing birds

January 12, 2018 at 8:06 p.m.

A group of former Interior Department officials from both major parties who served under the past eight presidents pressed the Trump administration Wednesday to reconsider its move to ease restrictions...

Interior Department reorganization could move BLM headquarters to Colorado

January 11, 2018 at 10:32 a.m.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke launched an unprecedented effort Wednesday to undertake the largest reorganization in the department's 168-year history, moving to shift tens of thousands of workers to new locations...

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