TOPEKA — The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Thursday limiting how the Environmental Protection Agency can regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants is putting Kansas political leaders, candidates and advocacy groups’ stances on environmental policy…

An endless parade of dump trucks trundle onto the site of the new elementary school in a well-choreographed performance.  Truck driver Karla Boots circles her vehicle around an assortment of bulldozers, then drops a load…

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday finalized its weakening of an Obama-era rule aimed at reducing polluted wastewater from coal-burning power plants that has contaminated streams, lakes and underground aquifers The change…

Dirt work and soil remediation at the site of Iola’s new elementary school continues to move quickly.  School board officials expect to have a building pad ready by Labor Day. The work is being done…

LENEXA, Kan. (AP) — Federal regulators have reached settlements with two agricultural storage and supply businesses to resolve alleged violations of clean air regulations. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a news release Thursday…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is poised to roll back ambitious Obama-era vehicle mileage standards and raise the ceiling on damaging fossil fuel emissions for years to come, gutting one of the United States’…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is rejecting appeals to slow its deregulatory drive while Americans grapple with the coronavirus, pushing major public health and environmental rollbacks closer to enactment in recent days despite the…

A groundbreaking ceremony for the new Iola Elementary School could come in April, as the project nears the end of the planning stage and gets ready to be let for bids, with demolition and the…

Before EPA officials get their hands dirty cleaning up the site of a new elementary school, they want to talk it over with USD 257 administrators.  “They consider this a very high profile project and…

NEW YORK — William Ruckelshaus, the first head of the Environmental Protection Agency who later became a heroic figure for resisting President Richard Nixon’s attempts to cover up the Watergate scandal, has died. He was…