"U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, under fire from lawmakers for travel and security expenses, spent about $45,000 in government money to fly five people to Australia to prepare for a planned trip that was later canceled."
"Some of the most reliable conservatives in Congress are starting to speak out against Scott Pruitt, the chief of the Environmental Protection Agency who is now facing a barrage of ethics and spending questions."
"Interior Department officials today mapped out their first steps toward allowing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge."
"Seven and a half months after being nominated to lead NASA, Jim Bridenstine finally gets to start his new job."
"The destructive invasive swamp rodents known as nutria are officially on the doorstep of one of the state's most critically important waterways."
"Marking another victory for sports anglers, NOAA Fisheries says it will allow five Gulf Coast states to set their own fishing seasons for red snapper in federal waters in 2018 and 2019."
"The mass quantities of food Americans waste every year has staggering environmental consequences, according to a study published Wednesday."
"The U.S. Senate today blocked a procedural vote that would have removed Clean Water Act protection and U.S. EPA oversight of ballast water brought into the Great Lakes aboard ocean-going ships."
"A federal judge today tossed out litigation challenging EPA's decision to delay an Obama-era rule curbing toxic wastewater discharges from power plants."
"A second person has died as the result of the wildfires that scorched across western Oklahoma, with the threat of more blazes Tuesday."
