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A coalition of Wyoming counties and conservation districts has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's approval last year of greater sage grouse conservation plans, which the groups say are illegal and overstep the federal government's authority.

Hugh Hollister Hogle, a pioneering medical doctor and avid conservationist, died in Holladay, Utah, on Feb. 25. He was 76.

Desert bighorn sheep have made an unlikely home out of the country's largest Marine combat training center.

Nature preserves are designed to protect the environment, but new research shows they can have good and bad impacts on the humans living near them.

The Marine Corps is planning to airlift 1,185 desert tortoises from proposed combat training grounds to a nearby area so they won't be killed by military equipment.

Human remains were found last week in the northwestern corner of Yellowstone National Park.

The Fish and Wildlife Service today unveiled a proposed update to its decades-old mitigation policy that would for the first time streamline the process for offsetting harm to animals or plants protected under the Endangered Species Act.

House Natural Resources Committee Democrats are pressing appropriators for full funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund in fiscal 2017, as Senate legislation that would permanently reauthorize the program remains bogged down by the fight over Flint, Mich.'s drinking water crisis.

The Senate is postponing consideration of its fiscal 2017 budget this month, the latest sign that congressional Republicans are struggling to set fiscal goals.

Mayors of more than 20 Florida cities have asked the moderators of next week's presidential debate in Miami to grill candidates about their plans to address sea-level rise, an increasing concern in the state's coastal communities.

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) spent last year hoarding cash for her upcoming campaign for a third term in the Senate, raking in big contributions from the energy industry.

A liberal think tank with close ties to the Obama administration has hired a well-known conservationist as its new director of policy for public lands.

New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte already faced one of the most competitive Senate elections this fall, but now the Republican lawmaker will also have to fend off a primary challenge in her bid for re-election.

Orange County has long been California's Republican stronghold, a place where GOP voters outnumber others. That's starting to change.

The leader of the powerful South Coast Air Quality Management District was fired by a divided governing board on Friday in a move decried by California environmentalists.

Arden Bundy, the youngest son of Cliven Bundy, is graduating from high school early to take care of the family's ranching business, according to Arden's sister Bailey Bundy Logue.

Two more high-profile federal judges with experience deciding environmental cases are reportedly being vetted by the White House for the Supreme Court vacancy.

After 1,000 barrels of oil spilled on their land, members of a native tribe in the Peruvian Amazon took at least eight public officials hostage to demand assistance from the central government, authorities said yesterday.