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FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2018, file photo, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt attends a meeting with state and local officials in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. Pruitt and his staffers took nearly $150,000 in commercial and charter flights over seven-months last year, including repeated trips to Pruitt's home state of Oklahoma, according to travel vouchers obtained by an environmental group. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

EPA head expenses nearly $200,000 in travel over 6 months

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

EPA announces commitment to clean Tennessee lead site

Associated Press

Environmental Protection Agency enforcement officer Chad Schulze displays, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018, in Seattle, one of the banned pesticides that investigators say was listed for sale on Amazon. The EPA on Thursday announced a $1.2 million settlement with Amazon over the sale and distribution of illegal pesticides, one of the largest penalties assessed under federal pesticides laws. (Greg Gilbert/The Seattle Times via AP)

Amazon to pay $1.2 million in illegal pesticide settlement

By PHUONG LE - Associated Press

In this Feb. 12, 2018, photo, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt attends a meeting with state and local officials and President Donald Trump about infrastructure in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. Pruitt has broken months of silence about his frequent use of premium-class airfare at taxpayer expense, saying he needs to fly first class because of unpleasant interactions with other travelers. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

EPA chief says he flies first class due to security concerns

By MICHAEL BIESECKER - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 31, 2002 file photo, the sun sets over the Mackinac Bridge and the Mackinac Straits as seen from Lake Huron. The bridge is the dividing line between Lake Michigan to the west and Lake Huron to the east. President Donald Trump again is trying to drastically reduce or eliminate federal support for cleanups of some iconic U.S. waterways. His proposed budget would slash Environmental Protection Agency funding for Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay restoration programs by 90 percent. It would kills all EPA spending on programs supporting other waters including San Francisco Bay, the Gulf of Mexico and Puget Sound. The administration made a similar attempt last year but Congress refused to go along. (AP Photo/Al Goldis, File)

Trump budget again targets regional water cleanup programs

By JOHN FLESHER - Associated Press

Sununu discusses landfill, lead poisoning with EPA head

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The President's FY19 Budget is on display after arriving on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Feb. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Agency-by-agency highlights of Trump’s 2019 budget

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this Feb. 8, 2018, photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., walks to the Senate chamber early shortly before midnight Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. The weeklong drama over the hourslong government shutdown set loose overblown rhetoric from both parties while President Donald Trump wrestled inartfully with turmoil in the stock market, one of his favorite bragging points until it tanked. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump, others on market dive, MS-13, shutdown

By HOPE YEN and CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press

In this Feb. 8, 2018, photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., walks to the Senate chamber early shortly before midnight Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. The weeklong drama over the hourslong government shutdown set loose overblown rhetoric from both parties while President Donald Trump wrestled inartfully with turmoil in the stock market, one of his favorite bragging points until it tanked. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

AP FACT CHECK: Shutdown produces lots of overblown rhetoric

By HOPE YEN and CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 30, 2018, file photo, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt testifies before the Senate Environment Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Pruitt is once again understating the threat posed by climate change, this time by suggesting that global warming may be a good thing for humanity. Pruitt has been champion for the continued burning of fossil fuels while expressing doubt about the consensus of climate scientists that man-made carbon emissions are overwhelmingly the cause of record temperature increases observed around the world. In an interview with KSNV-TV in Las Vegas on Feb. 7, Pruitt made several statements that are undercut by the work of climate scientists, including those at his own agency. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

AP FACT CHECK: Climate science undercuts EPA chief’s view

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 30, 2018, file photo, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt testifies before the Senate Environment Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Pruitt is once again understating the threat posed by climate change, this time by suggesting that global warming may be a good thing for humanity. Pruitt has been champion for the continued burning of fossil fuels while expressing doubt about the consensus of climate scientists that man-made carbon emissions are overwhelmingly the cause of record temperature increases observed around the world. In an interview with KSNV-TV in Las Vegas on Feb. 7, Pruitt made several statements that are undercut by the work of climate scientists, including those at his own agency. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

AP FACT CHECK: EPA chief sees good in warming, experts don’t

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

EPA announces plan for suburban St. Louis landfill cleanup

By JIM SALTER and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH - Associated Press

A robot rolls through an underground mine at the Edgar Mine set of Denver, Colo., Dec. 13, 2017. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering robots and other technologies to investigate abandoned or inactive mines to learn what needs to be done with contaminated water spilling out of the mines and into rivers. Many of the mines are poorly understood and dangerous because of bad air and cave-ins. (AP Photo/Tatiana Flowers)

US officials consider new tool to combat mine spills: Robots

By DAN ELLIOTT - Associated Press

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt testifies before the Senate Environment Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

EPA chief doesn’t recall 2016 statements slamming Trump

By MICHAEL BIESECKER - Associated Press

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt testifies before the Senate Environment Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Scott Pruitt, EPA chief, in 2016: Trump’d ‘be more abusive to the Constitution than Barack Obama’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

EPA to conduct more post-dredging studies of Hudson River

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In this July 13, 2007 file photo, workers with the Pebble Mine project test drill in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska near the village of Iliamma. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File) **FILE**

EPA backtracks on Alaska’s Pebble Mine, says project could pose major risk to fisheries

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

EPA reaches agreement over cleanup of Butte Hill Superfund

Associated Press

Editorial Roundup: Recent editorials in Oklahoma newspapers

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, who has led or joined 25 challenges to President Trump, said, "His administration has undermined many of our key economic sectors, like clean energy, health care, and tech, and attacked our basic values of equality and fairness." (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump’s agenda faces resistance from Democrat attorneys general

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times