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President Trump on Thursday said he supports Environmental Protection Administrator Scott Pruitt, who is facing increasing pressure to resign over a growing number of ethical controversies.
West Virginia Senate hopeful Don Blankenship claimed this week that the Justice Department is taking another look at the prosecution that sent him to federal prison for a year in connection with the Upper Big Branch mine explosion of 2010.
NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: Embattled EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt fired back at critics Wednesday and said controversies over his travel and living accommodations are being used as weapons to distract from the progress he's made implementing President Trump's agenda.
Two House Republicans on Tuesday said Scott Pruitt should resign or that President Trump should fire him, becoming the first sitting officeholders in the GOP to call on the embattled EPA administrator to step aside amid a growing list of controversies and ethical questions.
With controversy swirling around him and calls for his resignation intensifying, Scott Pruitt on Tuesday got a vote of confidence from his boss, President Trump, tamping down speculation for now that the EPA administrator would be the next Cabinet member forced out.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt on Monday formally scrapped a key piece of the Obama administration's fuel-efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks, throwing the future of the program into doubt.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt is facing fresh uncertainty about his political future after revelations that he rented a condominium from a powerful Washington lobbyist for $50 per night, the latest in a series of serious ethics questions that threaten to sink the chief architect of President Trump's deregulatory push.
Amid a growing firestorm over his $50-per-night condo rental deal with a Washington lobbyist, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt is doomed and could be forced to resign, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Sunday.
David Shulkin insisted Sunday he was fired from his post as Veterans Affairs secretary and did not voluntarily resign, contradicting a recent statement from the White House.
The Trump International Golf Club was vandalized late Saturday night or early Sunday morning, with red paint apparently splashed all over a sign near the entrance.
American mega-corporation Amazon came under fire from both sides of the aisle over the weekend, with President Trump blasting it as having taken advantage of U.S. taxpayers, and Sen. Bernard Sanders warning that the company has grown too large and its influence over the economy far too great.
Removing U.S. troops from Syria would be "the single worst decision" President Trump could make on the foreign policy stage and would create a power vacuum in the Middle East that Russia and Iran surely would rush to fill, Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday.
The Trump administration last week held the largest oil and gas lease sale in the country's history, offering up a whopping 77 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico -- but only 815,000 of those acres received bids.
A San Francisco judge on Wednesday held a climate change class in his courtroom, an unprecedented move that could mark a sea change in how the U.S. legal system approaches global warming and greenhouse gas emissions.
In the face of Russian cyberattacks, Energy Secretary Rick Perry vowed Tuesday that his department's new cyber office will be fully capable of dealing with those threats and stopping any potential assaults on the U.S. electric grid.
As his opponents hammer away at his history as a Democrat, Rep. Evan H. Jenkins has fallen to third place in West Virginia's Republican Senate primary election, as the three leading Republicans engage in an increasingly ugly contest for the right to challenge Sen. Joe Manchin III.
The Renewable Fuel Standard that boosted ethanol use has fallen out of favor so badly that environmentalists now see themselves on the same side of the debate as Republicans such as Sen. Ted Cruz, arguing that the entire program is deeply flawed and must be completely overhauled.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt suggested Tuesday that he won't renew Obama-era clean-car rules past 2025, setting up a battle with states such as California that have vowed to keep their own tight emissions limits in place.
As executive director of the environmental group WildCoast, Serge Dedina for years has worked to reduce carbon emissions and protect the world's oceans and ecosystems from the effects of climate change.
The budding bipartisan conversation on carbon taxes has stalled, with virtually no movement from Republicans in Congress and one of the most liberal states in the nation unable to push a carbon bill through its legislature.