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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler speaks at a news conference to announce plans to revoke the Waters of the United States rule, an Obama-era regulation that provided federal protection to many U.S. wetlands and streams, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

The Latest: EPA revokes water protection regulation

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In this Thursday Aug. 15, 2019 photo, dairy farmer Fred Stone pauses while working in the milking room at his farm in Arundel, Maine. Fred Stone and his wife Laura, whose dairy farm is contaminated by toxic chemicals known collectively as PFAS, so-called &quot;forever chemicals,&quot; have high PFAS levels in their blood. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Concerns grow over tainted sewage sludge spread on croplands

By JOHN FLESHER and MICHAEL CASEY - Associated Press

Environmental Protection Agency director Andrew Wheeler speaks about the release of the final report of the national Superfund Task Force, Monday, Sept. 9, 2019, at Southside Community Park in Chattanooga, Tenn (Erin O. Smith/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP)

EPA to scale back use of animals to test chemical toxicity

By RICHARD LARDNER - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Monday, Aug. 19, 2019 in Strafford, Vt., Ed Hathaway of the Environmental Protection Agency holds a rock that contains copper sulfide ore outside the Elizabeth Mine, a 19th century copper mine abandoned in the late 1950s. For decades the mine polluted local waterways. A multi-year, multi-million-dollar cleanup of the site is nearing completion. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring)

Where a mine supplied a nascent nation, cleanup nears end

By WILSON RING - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, April 18, 2019, file photo, a sign for the Department of Justice hangs in the press briefing room at the Justice Department, in Washington. The U.S. Justice Department is conducting an antitrust investigation of four automakers that have signed on with California in a deal to toughen tailpipe emissions standards. In July, Ford, Honda, Volkswagen and BMW reached a deal with California to abide by standards that are tougher than those preferred by the Trump administration. The standards are closely linked with fuel economy requirements. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Trump challenges California power to control auto pollution

By TOM KRISHER and ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 24, 2015, file photo, pumpjacks work in a field near Lovington, N.M. Oil industry and environmental groups say they expect the Environmental Protection Agency to release a proposed rule over the next few days that will roll back requirements on detecting and plugging methane leaks at oil and gas facilities (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

EPA moves to revoke rules on oil industry methane leaks

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and CATHY BUSSEWITZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 24, 2015, file photo, pumpjacks work in a field near Lovington, N.M. Oil industry and environmental groups say they expect the Environmental Protection Agency to release a proposed rule over the next few days that will roll back requirements on detecting and plugging methane leaks at oil and gas facilities (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

The Latest: US proposes easing rules on methane emissions

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In this file photo, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue speaks to reporters at an Ag Policy Summit during a visit Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019, to Decatur, Illinois. (AP Photo/John O'Connor) **FILE**

China trade war angers farm country, threatens Donald Trump’s support in Midwest

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

EPA delays stricter standards for new lobster boat engines

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EPA administrator says he will not make Alaska mine decision

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The Latest: EPA not commenting on Hudson River lawsuit

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Rahjiah McBride, of Chester, Pa., center, helps her relatives who are Newark residents pick up cases of water from the Boylan Street Recreation Center, Monday, Aug. 12, 2019, in Newark, N.J., after New Jersey's governor and Newark's mayor vowed to provide bottled water to city residents with lead service lines. Environmental Protection Agency tests indicated that filters distributed earlier might not be protecting residents against elevated lead levels in some areas. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Cory Booker Newark mayor record hit on lead in water

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Arsenic fears didn’t stall federal cleanup at Indiana school

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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler at the Monroe Energy Trainer Refinery in Trainer, Pa., Monday, July 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) ** FILE **

EPA seeks to limit states leveraging Clean Water Act to block pipelines

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, June 12, 2019, photo, a sign is displayed at the entrance to an old arsenic mine in Carmel, N.Y. The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a Superfund cleanup of a neighborhood in New York contaminated with arsenic from the 19th-century mine. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

32 years after poisoning, cleanup launched at arsenic site

By MARY ESCH - Associated Press

EPA requests partial delisting of contaminated Montana site

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FILE - This undated file photo shows Barrick Goldstrike Mines' Betze-Post open pit near Carlin, Nev. A three-judge panel with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled Friday, July 19, 2019, that state and federal programs ensure mining companies take financial responsibility for their pollution. (Adella Harding/The Daily Free Press via AP, File)

Appeals court upholds Trump move to drop mine pollution rule

By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 29, 2014 file photo, Pinot Noir grapes just picked are shown in a bin in Napa, Calif. The Environmental Protection Agency is rejecting legal challenges by environmental groups seeking a ban of a pesticide linked to brain damage in children. The EPA’s defense Thursday comes in response to an environmental group’s federal court fight to force the agency to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

EPA rejects challenge of pesticide linked to brain damage

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

GAO: EPA skirted procedures in overhaul of science boards

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

Trump escapes blame for ethanol policy hurting corn farmers

By DAVID PITT - Associated Press