It comes after the Office of Management and Budget instructed agencies last week to draft plans that go beyond standard furloughs.

The department insists it’s not blocking staff using certain terms, even as the administration moves to gut climate regs and refute the science. The Energy Department is denying reports that it’s ...

“This is very scary,” said Max Stier, CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit that aims to bolster the civil service. Stier and others are warning that the Trump administration might ...

Europe’s economy relies on natural ecosystems that are dying faster than ever while the European Union cuts the very rules that protect them, scientists caution. “Political realities across the world ...

The Trump administration is moving to lift a Biden-era ban on coal leasing in the Powder River Basin, a region of rolling grasslands in southeastern Montana and northeastern Wyoming that pumps out 40 ...

The Trump administration is reinforcing its threat to conduct mass firings of federal workers, issuing guidelines to agencies for conducting layoffs during a government shutdown.

The Supreme Court this term will have several opportunities to dismantle guardrails on presidential authority, potentially fueling the Trump administration’s power to roll back environmental ...

Plans to eliminate the Office of Research and Development are raising concerns that overwhelmed towns will be left to fend for themselves.

The New England Fishery Management Council had been considering a framework for lobstermen interested in the new gear designed to avoid whale entanglements. The New England Fishery Management Council ...

The Trump administration has not said whether it will close national park sites if the federal government shuts down.

Al McGartland retired from the agency this fall after leading its National Center for Environmental Economics for 25 years.

The department plans to dole out millions of dollars for research and development of faster, more efficient and modern mines in the U.S.