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For Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, the fight to protect public lands is personal, she told Greenwire after a landmark speech yesterday.

The Obama administration yesterday afternoon scaled back a sweeping proposal to change the way members of the public can formally ask the Fish and Wildlife Service or National Marine Fisheries Service to review the status of animals or plants under the Endangered Species Act.

In early March at a hotel in downtown Denver, delegates for Western governors were handed paper copies of a Bureau of Land Management draft instruction memo on how to ensure cattle grazing does not harm habitat for the greater sage grouse.

The Senate easily passed bipartisan energy reform legislation today, setting the stage for conference talks with the House that members hope will result in the first new major energy law in almost a decade.

As the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit prepares to hear oral arguments in the challenge against U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan, how will the science of climate change play into the arguments? During today's OnPoint, Kenneth Kimmell, president of the Union of Concerned Scientists, discusses his organization's recently filed brief in the case and talks about the role of the power plan in helping the U.S. meet its Paris emissions target.

A South African Cabinet minister said yesterday that it will not bid to lift a global ban on rhinoceros horns, but it will continue to stockpile the products.

A total solar eclipse is more than a year away, but people are already planning where they are going to be for the rare occurences that hasn't been seen on the U.S. mainland for nearly four decades.

The latest casualty of Illinois' state budget impasse: several downstate parks.

All new buildings in San Francisco under 10 stories in height will be required to have solar panels under a new law.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board yesterday considered, and then deadlocked on, whether it should keep pressing a top industry group to tell the public more about chemical plant hazards.

West Virginia is not doing enough to clean up pollution from coal mines it inherited from defunct coal companies, said a coalition of activists suing the state.

The nation's first grizzly bear recovery coordinator is stepping down.

Officials discovered a human skull and bones on Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory property this week while clearing a drainage ditch.

An explosion at a Mexican petrochemical plant yesterday killed 13 people and injured dozens more, leading to evacuations and a toxic air release.

More than eight years have passed since a member of the Nez Perce tribe in eastern Oregon killed two bighorn sheep, arguing the practice was his native right.

U.S. EPA and the Department of Justice have reached a deal with 66 companies to clean up contaminated groundwater at a Whittier, Calif., Superfund site, the agencies said today.

A federal judge yesterday approved the establishment of what is projected to be the largest philanthropy serving Native American farmers and ranchers across the country.

A federal appeals court today rebuffed a request from industry groups to reconsider a decision over where legal challenges to the Obama administration's Clean Water Rule should play out.

Local officials in Arizona are spending thousands of dollars to prevent the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from expanding the endangered Mexican gray wolf to their region.

Conservative industrialists Charles and David Koch are behind an Arizona-based group opposing a permanent ban on uranium mining near the Grand Canyon, an environmental group says.

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