"Newly elected Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has promised to look hard at how the country has fared in opening its energy sector to international players, but outside observers believe foreign investment will remain."
"Two of Scott Pruitt’s top aides provided fresh details to congressional investigators in recent days about some of his most controversial spending and management decisions, including his push to find a six-figure job for his wife at a politically connected group, enlist staffers in performing personal tasks and seek high-end travel despite aides’ objections."
"EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and his aides have kept "secret" calendars and schedules to overtly hide controversial meetings or calls with industry representatives and others, according to a former EPA official who is expected to soon testify before Congress. A review of EPA documents by CNN found discrepancies between Pruitt's official calendar and other records.
"The bill to pre-empt taxes is part of a wider industry effort to skip cities and go straight to the states."
"July 4 marks the peak of the largest, most valuable wild salmon run left in America."
"U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration backed off an assertion he made earlier indicating he persuaded Saudi Arabia to effectively boost oil production to its maximum capacity, which would have threatened to blow up a fragile truce agreed by OPEC and inflamed the Saudi-Iran rivalry."
"US communities near pellet mills complain of fumes while experts say burning wood is a ‘disaster’ for climate change",
"The National Register of Historic Places has placed a protected designation on the site of a West Virginia battle that broke out in the 1920s when coal miners tried to unionize."
"An oil pipeline that runs through the area where Lakes Huron and Michigan meet also crosses other Michigan waterways at nearly 400 locations, dozens of which are considered particularly sensitive, a report disclosed Friday."
"The Trump administration acted Friday to try to bolster its case to repeal the Obama administration’s controversial water pollution regulation."
