The announcement comes just days after NPR revealed the administration had secretly rewritten safety and environmental standards.

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The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise ...

President Donald Trump has appointed Ho Nieh as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s new chair, the latest sign of the White House’s efforts to shape the agency’s leadership in pursuit of the ...

By Courtney Rozen WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will have more power to hire and fire up to ...

Just before the holidays, the Senate, in a party-line 53-43 en bloc vote, approved five of President Donald Trump’s picks for agency inspectors general, bringing the total number of confirmed ...

The Trump administration has reversed cuts to grants for mental health and addiction treatment programs that were valued at nearly $2 billion. Thousands of federal grants supporting the programs were ...

Since President Trump’s inauguration in January, the administration has embraced fossil fuels while eschewing renewable energy, climate actions and regulations. Here are some of the major ways the ...

BOSTON, Jan 14 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration is reversing course on firing nearly every employee at a 1960s-era agency within the U.S. Department of Justice known as "America's ...