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Gray water containing coal ask flows from a ruptured landfill at the L.V. Sutton Power Station in Wilmington, N.C., and flows toward Sutton Lake, near the Cape Fear River, Sept. 16, 2018. Duke Energy says it's initial estimate is that about 2,000 cubic yards (1,530 cubic meters) of ash were displaced at the landfill, enough to fill about 180 dump trucks.

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Florence pollution fears: Swollen rivers swamp ash dumps, hog farms

by Michael Biesecker Associated Press, and Gary D. Robertson Associated PressSeptember 17, 2018

FILE - In this May 16, 2018 file photo, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt appears before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on budget on Capitol Hill in Washington. A federal appeals court has ruled that the Trump administration endangered public health by keeping a top-selling pesticide chlorpyrifos on the market, despite extensive scientific evidence that even tiny levels of exposure could harm babies’ brains. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San...

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Court orders EPA to get rid of pesticide

by Michael Biesecker Associated PressAugust 9, 2018

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EPA chief Pruitt out amid scandals

by Michael Biesecker Associated Press, Zeke Miller Associated Press, and Ellen Knickmeyer Associated PressJuly 6, 2018

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt appears before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies on budget May 16, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Newly filed disclosure reports show the Washington lobbyist whose wife rented a bargain-priced Capitol Hill condo to Pruitt had far more contact with the agency than previously disclosed, despite repeated denials by both men. Pruitt has denied that lobbying firm Williams & Jensen’s former chairman J. Steven Hart lobbied his agency in 2017, most recently during Congressional testimony in May.

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Lobbyist tied to EPA chief’s condo tried to influence agency

by Michael Biesecker Associated PressJune 2, 2018

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks at a news conference April 19, 2017, with Pasquale “Nino” Perrotta, second from left, in East Chicago, Ind. Perrotta, the security chief for the head of the Environmental Protection Agency worked on the side as a private investigator for the owner of a tabloid news company with close ties to President Donald Trump.

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EPA security chief also worked for owner of tabloid company

by Michael Biesecker Associated Press, and Jeff Horwitz Associated PressApril 25, 2018

FILE - In this June 2, 2017 file photo, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt speaks in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

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Government: Pruitt broke law with $43,000 phone booth

by Michael Biesecker Associated PressApril 16, 2018

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EPA chief’s future doubtful

by Michael Biesecker Associated PressApril 6, 2018

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke arrives to testify before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources at a committee hearing on the President's Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2019, Tuesday, March 13, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. At right is Olivia Barton Ferriter, with the Interior Department.

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Zinke defends hiking park fees amid travel spending flap

by Michael Biesecker Associated Press, and Matthew Daly Associated PressMarch 13, 2018

In this Feb. 22, 2018, photo, White House counsel Don McGahn gestures while speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, at National Harbor, Md. President Trump and his appointees have stocked federal agencies with ex-lobbyists and corporate lawyers who now help regulate they very industries from which they collected paychecks. Records reviewed by The Associated Press show McGahn, has issued at least 24 ethics waivers to key administration officials at the White House and executive branch agencies.

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What swamp? Lobbyists get ethics waivers to work for Trump

by Michael Biesecker, Juliet Linderman and Richard Lardner March 8, 2018

In this Friday, July 21, 2017, a hog house is reflected in an adjacent waste pond at Everette Murphrey Farm in Farmville, N.C. Civil trials over swine waste management begin April 2018 against a subsidiary of the world's largest pork producer, and people are watching to see whether things will change and impact places such as the Everette Murphrey Farm in the country's No. 2 hog state.

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Industrial farming: Neighbors fight back against swine waste

by Allen G. Breed Associated Press, and Michael Biesecker Associated PressMarch 5, 2018