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FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2015 file photo, water flows through a series of retention ponds built to contain and filter out heavy metals and chemicals from the Gold King Mine. The U.S. government settled a lawsuit Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020, brought by the state of Utah over a mine waste spill caused by federal workers that sent wastewater downstream to several states from the inactive Gold King Mine in southwestern Colorado five years ago. The Environmental Protection Agency agreed to fund $3 million in Utah clean water projects and give another $360 million to the state for remediation projects at abandoned mine sites. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

EPA settles with Utah over 2015 Colorado mine spill

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

Andrew Wheeler pushes Pueblo, Colorado Smelter superfund site cleanup over climate change

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Andrew Wheeler, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, wears a mask as he arrives for an event on regulatory reform on the South Lawn of the White House, Thursday, July 16, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

US says it will adopt global climate standards for aviation

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and DAVID KOENIG - Associated Press

Dairy Farm Killer Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Will the EPA get away with its shoddy science cover-up that impacted Yakima Valley dairy farms?

By Gerald Baron

EPA to temporarily close Colorado mine bulkhead for study

Associated Press

Trump Cabinet members look to reassure battleground voters

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and ELLEN KNICKMEYER and JOHN FLESHER - Associated Press

This undated photo from Toyota shows the RAV4 Hybrid, a small SUV that gets an EPA-estimated 40 mpg in mixed driving conditions. Toyota is well versed in making hybrids, and the RAV4 Hybrid is an excellent example. Its cargo space, among the largest in the small SUV class, checks in at 37.5 (minimum) and 69.8 (maximum) cubic feet. (Courtesy of Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. via AP)

Edmunds recommends 5 SUVs for cargo space, fuel economy

By REX TOKESHI-TORRES of Edmunds - Associated Press

Impact of abortion drugs on women and the environment illustration by The Washington Times

Is the push for chemical abortion hurting the environment?

By Kristan Hawkins

This Aug. 10, 2006, file photo shows the sign used as the backdrop for press briefings at the U.S. Department of State in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak. File)

Volunteers reopening some federal offices closed in pandemic

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

Federal court rejects EPA approval of widely used herbicide

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Andrew Wheeler, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, listens during a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee oversight hearing to examine the Environmental Protection Agency, Wednesday, May 20, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Al Drago/Pool via AP)

Trump seeks to scale back environmental reviews for projects

By KEVIN FREKING and ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2010, file photo, then-Secretary of Natural Resources-designate Doug Domenech speaks during a news conference in Richmond, Va. A senior Trump administration official misused his office for private gain by capitalizing on his government connections to help get a family member hired at the Environmental Protection Agency, investigators said. The Interior Department's Inspector General found that Assistant Interior Secretary Douglas Domenech reached out to a senior EPA official in person and later by email in 2017 to advocate for the unnamed relative when that person was seeking a job at the agency. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Probe: Top US official misused office to get son-in-law job

By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press

Kansas refinery reaches agreement over clean air violations

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BNSF railroad to clean up lead waste at Iowa property

Associated Press

Maryland, Virginia, D.C. intend to sue EPA on bay pollution

By BRIAN WITTE - Associated Press

Editorial Roundup: New England

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this Feb. 27, 2020, photo, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler testifies during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Trump administration is steadily pushing major public health and environmental rollbacks toward enactment, rejecting appeals that it slow its deregulatory drive while Americans grapple with the pandemic. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

EPA urges Facebook, eBay to remove sellers of phony coronavirus disinfectants

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE- In this Nov. 11, 2019 file photo, a view of the Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court has delivered a setback to Montana homeowners who are seeking additional cleanup of arsenic left over from years of copper smelting. The court said Monday that the homeowners cannot proceed with efforts to decontaminate their own property near the shuttered Anaconda smelter without the permission of the Environmental Protection Agency. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Justices rule against Montana homeowners near Superfund site

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Activist Hilton Kelley poses along the railroad tracks that divide East and West Port Arthur Monday, March 23, 2020, in Port Arthur, Texas. &quot;Now we may not drop dead that day,&quot; Kelley said of the environmental protection rollbacks, and the communities surrounding the refineries and plants. &quot;But when you're inundated day after day...we're dead. We're dead.&quot; (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

‘They’re killing us,’ Texas residents say of Trump rollbacks

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 17, 2019, file photo in Washington, a label states that these pans do not contain PFAS, perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. The White House has intervened to weaken one of the few public health protections pursued by its own administration. Documents released Friday, April 17, 2020, show the White House stepped in to limit the scope of a pending rule that would target imports of products tainted with PFAS, used in nonstick and stain-resistant frying pans, rugs, and countless other consumer products. (AP Photo/Ellen Knickmeyer, File)

White House moves to weaken EPA rule on toxic compounds

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press