"Hours after Scott Pruitt met with state officials in a closed-door meeting at the Governor’s Mansion, the Environmental Protection Agency chief also met privately with railroad executives in Omaha, emails released earlier this month as part of a lawsuit show."
"FLINT, MI -- The city estimates 14,000 damaged lead and galvanized water service lines remain buried, about 15 percent more than past projections."
"A Montana district court has ruled that state regulators ignored environmental issues and illegally approved an exploratory drilling project in the mountains north of Yellowstone National Park."
"Bayer AG is set to win U.S. antitrust approval for its $66 billion takeover of Monsanto Co. by next week, according to a person familiar with the matter, removing the last major regulatory hurdle to forming the world’s biggest seed and agricultural-chemicals company."
"Speculation is mounting in Ottawa that the Trudeau government is poised to take over the embattled Trans Mountain pipeline project after its Texas-based proponent, Kinder Morgan, cancelled a federal construction permit application needed to pursue the oil pipeline and tanker expansion."
"The European Commission on Monday proposed an ambitious set of measures to clean up Europe’s beaches and rid its seas and waterways of disposable plastics, and urged the European Union to lead the way in reducing marine litter worldwide."
"Residents, merchants and officials in Ellicott City [Md.] on Monday began to examine the devastation wrought by the floods that coursed through the historic mill town the night before, for the second time in less than two years."
"The first named storm of the season, Subtropical Storm Alberto, came ashore Monday along the Florida Panhandle, bringing heavy rain to a wide swath of the Southeast and claiming the lives of two journalists on duty in North Carolina."
"Coyotes are newly established in every state and several Canadian provinces and are rapidly moving south of Mexico into Central America, the study released Tuesday says."
"The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday expanded the opportunity for vocal critics to object to a controversial proposal that would restrict the types of scientific research the agency can draw on when writing regulations."
