"The Interior Department has removed heavily criticized language from the final version of its public records rule that some worried would give officials too much leniency in withholding documents."
"A new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule proposal would shrink enforcement responsibilities for farmers by narrowing the areas they must restrict human contact during pesticide applications, a move the agency is labelling easier management."
"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said if Democrats win control of the chamber next year, he would put an ambitious plan on the floor to remove gas-powered vehicles from American roads by 2040."
"Get ready for a surge of lawsuits over the Trump administration's decision to walk back Obama-era protections for wetlands and streams."
"Oil giant ExxonMobil, already fighting a climate-related investor fraud case in New York, was hit with a second lawsuit late Thursday: The Massachusetts Attorney General is accusing the company of defrauding investors and threatening the world economy."
"EPA is disbanding two of its federal advisory committees as a result of President Trump's executive order targeting the boards."
"The United States government has lost billions of dollars of oil and gas revenue to fossil-fuel companies because of a loophole in a decades-old law, a federal watchdog agency said Thursday, offering the first detailed accounting of the consequences of a misstep by lawmakers that is expected to continue costing taxpayers for decades to come."
"While the Bureau of Land Management is adopting more wild horses and burros than ever, BLM acting chief William Perry Pendley says it will take many years and billions of dollars to reduce growing herds on federal rangelands to sustainable levels."
"The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday rolled out a five-year plan for funding a popular program for restoring the Great Lakes, even though in the not-so-distant past the Trump administration tried to ax the environmental initiative almost entirely."
"The National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, and nine other groups sued Oct. 23 in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, accusing the federal government of breaking the law in its rollback of the 2015 Clean Water Rule."
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