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The changes were first floated by a top aide to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Energy and Environment

EPA restructuring environmental justice, permitting offices

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Thursday's waiver also extends previous waivers for specific fuel-blending requirements for Texas. (Kevin M. Cox/The Galveston County Daily News via AP)
Energy and Environment

EPA waives emissions rules to speed gasoline to market ahead of Irma

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Environmentalists and consumer groups asked President Trump's Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday to keep in place fuel efficiency standards for new cars and trucks created by the Obama administration. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
Energy and Environment

Environmentalists, automakers fight over Trump’s proposed fuel efficiency standards rollback

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The Tennessee Valley Authority, a large government-funded electric utility, said a court-ordered clean up of a coal waste site will take about 24 years to fulfill, and that the utility is considering appealing the federal court's mandate within the next 30 days. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
Energy and Environment

Tennessee Valley Authority mulls appeal of 24-year coal cleanup project

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EPA's workforce numbers are expected to drop to levels unseen since President Ronald Reagan was in office, according to an agency official. The agency unveiled its program to begin buying out employees in June to meet President Trump's goal of reining in the agency's budget.
Energy and Environment

EPA staff levels to hit 30-year low this month

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The Environmental Protection Agency is warning Hurricane Irma could result in downed power lines, complicating the ability to pump water through drinking and wastewater systems, especially in Puerto Rico. (NASA via AP)
Energy and Environment

EPA warns Hurricane Irma could bust drinking and wastewater systems

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The EPA said it will deploy an air monitor of its own to the area on Tuesday to help the investigation to confirm the source and scope of the benzene leak. (AP Photo/D1avid J. Phillip)
Energy and Environment

EPA investigating release of potentially dangerous leak after Houston refinery damaged by Harvey

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Smoke rises from a chemical plant in Crosby, near Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Thick black smoke and towering orange flames shot up Friday from the flooded Houston-area chemical plant after two trailers of highly unstable compounds blew up a day earlier after losing refrigeration. Arkema says Harvey's floodwaters engulfed its backup generators and knocked out the refrigeration necessary to keep it's nine containers of organic peroxides from degrading and catching fire.
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EPA OK’s controlled burn of chemical plant that partly exploded due to Harvey flood

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FILE - Sgt. Destry Riggs scans flooded areas during a search and rescue operation run by the 36th Combat Aviation Brigade of the Texas Army national Guard over areas hit by Tropical Storm Harvey on Friday, Sept. 1, 2017, north of Beaumont, Texas. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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EPA lashes out at Associated Press reporter for story on flooded toxic land sites in Texas

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This Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017 photo shows the heavily polluted Patrick Bayou in the Houston Ship Channel that was flooded during Tropical Storm Harvey in Houston. (AP Photo/Jason Dearen)
Energy and Environment

EPA determines 13 Superfund sites flooded and possibly damaged in Houston area

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