"The Environmental Protection Agency’s internal watchdog has rebuked the agency’s chief of staff for refusing to cooperate with an inquiry into whether he pressured a scientist to alter her congressional testimony, calling his actions a “flagrant problem” and referring the matter to Congress."

A little-known disease caused by mycobacteria seems to be causing a decline of striped bass in the Chesapeake Bay.

"New York state’s attorney general is suing The Chemours Co., 3M Co., DuPont de Nemours Inc. and other companies for their alleged role in making and selling persistent chemicals that are environmental contaminants."

"The last time Jeff Holmstead and John Walke sat at the same congressional witness table, they tangled vigorously over an industry-backed proposal to overhaul EPA's New Source Review program."

"Hundreds of thousands of Canadians have been unwittingly exposed to high levels of lead in their drinking water, with contamination in several cities consistently higher than they ever were in Flint, Michigan, according to an investigation that tested drinking water in hundreds of homes and reviewed thousands more previously undisclosed results."

"An environmental group that has sued the Trump administration nearly 100 times announced Tuesday that it has hired Gina McCarthy, who headed the Environmental Protection Agency under President Barack Obama, as its new president and chief executive."

"GREENDALE, Ind. — Mayor Alan Weiss has a whiskey fungus problem. Baudoinia compniacensis, a little-studied black mold associated with alcohol aging, is growing all over the otherwise idyllic town Weiss leads here in southeastern Indiana."

"The Trump administration is chasing down fewer environmental crimes than any administration since the mid-1990s, according to new data from an independent research group."

"In March 2017, a politically connected oil firm called Cimarex Energy Co. was in a hurry to begin fracking on a flat expanse of farmland in the western Oklahoma oil patch."