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There are two big environmental regulations on the chopping block for congressional Republicans this week — involving coal mining and methane emissions.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced Monday that he'll sign a proposed rule to withdraw from the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-designed plan to meet U.S. obligations under the Paris climate accord.

The drilling is scheduled to start this month in waters off the Bahamas, just 150 miles from the Florida coast. It's raising alarms among environmental groups and businesses that rely on tourism.

Unusually heavy rains. Toxic smog. A poisoned river in the capital New Delhi. India's rapid development has left it with many environmental challenges, on top of erratic weather from climate change.

People who live in one of the nation's most toxic areas for air pollution -- known as Cancer Alley -- have lost the ability to sue for protection from environmental racism.

The state on Wednesday agreed to delay the implementation of the All-Electric Building Act, which was set to go into effect in January.

NASA prepares to launch a space probe Monday that will conduct an expedition to the planet Mercury. The Messenger craft is slated to arrive at Mercury in 2011. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports.

The rules, designed to make drilling safer and reduce the risk of a blowout, come six years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The oil industry says some of the requirements are too costly.

Sen. Kamala Harris, a candidate for president, is floating a new idea: funding for mental health treatment as a form of reparations for slavery. She talks with NPR's Steve Inskeep.

As President Bush and Sen. John Kerry prepare for their debates, Morning Edition, in a week-long series, examines the candidates' positions on some of the key issues of the fall campaign.