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Members of the North Carolina National Guard finish stacking sand bags under a highway overpass near the Lumber River which is expected to flood from Hurricane Florence's rain in Lumberton, N.C., Friday, Sept. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Toxic waste sites in Florence’s path under close watch

By MICHAEL BIESECKER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 1999, file photo, employees of Murphy Family Farms along with friends and neighbors, float a group of dead pigs down a flooded road on Rabon Maready's farm near Beulaville, N.C. The hogs drowned from the floodwaters of the NE Cape Fear River after heavy rains from Hurricane Floyd flooded the area. The heavy rain expected from Hurricane Florence could flood hog manure pits, coal ash dumps and other industrial sites in North Carolina, creating a noxious witches’ brew of waste that might wash into homes and threaten drinking water supplies. (AP Photo/Alan Marler, File)

Regulators keep watch on toxic waste sites during hurricane

By MICHAEL BIESECKER - Associated Press

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)

Ousted EPA head Pruitt denies getting improper gifts, income

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

EPA proposes Superfund listing for West Virginia site

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FILE - This undated photo shows the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Mont. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Acting Administrator David Wheeler planned to visit Butte, Friday, Sept. 7, 2018, after an estimated 3,000 snow geese died when they landed in the pit in 2016. (Walter Hinick/The Montana Standard via AP)

The Latest: EPA boss says Superfund cleanups are a priority

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Correction: Congress-EPA-Hazardous Substances story

Associated Press

Congress wants EPA to more quickly regulate unsafe chemicals

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

Washington, DC, USA - May 5, 2015: National Retail Federation Staff Photos. Photo by Ian Wagreich / U.S. Chamber of Commerce

EPA report cites damaging impact of Renewable Fuel Standard

By David French

FILE - In this May 16, 2018 file photo, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt appears before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies on budget on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Environmental Protection Agency’s internal watchdog is faulting the agency for spending millions of dollars on round-the-clock security for former administrator Scott Pruitt. The EPA inspector general says the agency failed to document why Pruitt needed more than $3.5 million in security spending in 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

EPA watchdog faults Pruitt’s $3.5 million security costs

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

Taxpayers tell Congress: Stop meddling in fuel markets

By The National Taxpayers Union

Brian Weekly, a contractor at West Virginia’s Grant Town coal-fired power plant, gestures toward the small facility’s smokestack, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018 in Grant Town, W.Va. Weekly says opponents of the coal industry are behind warnings of health risks from smokestack emissions under the Trump administration’s plan. President Donald Trump picked West Virginia where he announced rolling back pollution rules for coal-fired power plants. But he didn’t mention that the northern two-thirds of West Virginia, with the neighboring part of Pennsylvania, would be hit hardest. (AP Photo/ Ellen Knickmeyer)

Warnings over pollution met with a shrug in coal country

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and JOHN RABY - Associated Press

Cattle feeders agree to penalties for water law violations

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

EPA rethinking air pollution rule for power plants

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

FILE- In this April 25, 2018, file photo journalists and visitors look at the Jaguar electric-powered I-Pace model showcases at the China Auto Show during the media day in Beijing. While Tesla grapples with internal issues like production delays, a sometimes-erratic CEO and a recent about-face on whether to go private, its rivals are moving aggressively into the luxury electric vehicle space. Jaguar Land Rover has the I-Pace. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Correction: Tesla-Electric Rivals story

By DAVID McHUGH - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2017, file photo, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Building is shown in Washington. Democratic lawmakers are joining scientists in denouncing an industry-backed proposal to dramatically limit what kind of science the Environmental Protection Agency can consider. Industry backers say the rule would increase regulatory transparency. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The ACE up the EPA’s sleeve

By Nicolas Loris

Sununu writes to EPA on anti-tick, mosquito products

Associated Press

President Barack Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Donald Trump to end ‘war on coal’ with rule replacing Obama-era Clean Power Plan

By Valerie Richardson and Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 19, 2015, file photo, traffic heads eastbound on Rt 50 in Bowie, Md. Internal documents show the Environmental Protection Agency privately questioned the Trump administration’s finding that freezing Obama-era mileage standards would make drivers safer. In announcing the mileage proposal, the administration said the freeze would save 1,000 lives a year. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

EPA challenged safety of administration mileage freeze

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

In this Aug. 1, 2018, photo, Lauren Woehr hands her 16-month-old daughter Caroline, held by her husband Dan McDowell, a cup filled with bottled water at their home in Horsham, Pa. In Horsham and surrounding towns in eastern Pennsylvania, and at other sites around the United States, the foams once used routinely in firefighting training at military bases contained per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. EPA testing between 2013 and 2015 found significant amounts of PFAS in public water supplies in 33 U.S. states. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Toxics from manufacturing turn up in public water systems

By Ellen Knickmeyer - Associated Press

Agency plans new Discover Outdoor Connecticut Day

Associated Press