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The Utah Wildlife Board yesterday came out in opposition to a proposed national monument for Bears Ears yesterday, urging Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to reject the site's creation.

The Interior Department today unveiled a new online tool that the agency says is designed to help land managers across the West make sagebrush habitat more resilient to wildfires.

A rhetorical shift has occurred among opponents of policies to combat global warming, according to researchers who have identified the challenge of "climate-change neoskepticism."

Someone has time to kill at the White House.

U.S. EPA needs an additional year to complete a report on biofuels' environmental impacts that's already two years late, officials told the agency's inspector general.

Harley-Davidson Motor Co. manufactured and sold almost 340,000 devices to defeat air pollution controls and more than 12,000 noncompliant motorcycles, the Obama administration said today as it announced a proposed Clean Air Act settlement with the iconic motorcycle manufacturer.

Natural gas is projected to break a decadeslong trend this year and surpass coal as the No. 1 emitter of carbon dioxide in the electric sector, according to the latest federal energy data.

One factor loomed large when federal judges imposed a stay last month on U.S. EPA's cleanup of coal-fired power plants in Texas: the plan's potential impact on the electric grid. Electric reliability would be imperiled "if plant operators close facilities rather than install or upgrade uneconomical emissions controls," the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel wrote. Their source, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, had warned EPA's haze-reduction plan would have "significant" repercussions for grid reliability. But ERCOT critics are questioning the watchdog's own reliability.

The mayor of Walker, La., plans to sue the state of Louisiana and the federal government for the flooding in his city, which he says was "man-made."

The Florida Department of Health is telling Miami-Dade County officials that mosquitoes are spreading the Zika virus in Miami Beach, according to those familiar with the discussions.

As funding woes and a political firestorm brew in southern Louisiana in the wake of last week's historic floods, residents are attempting to feed themselves and deal with a potential public health crisis.

The Federal Railroad Administration published a report this week alleging that passenger and freight railroads have failed to install adequate safety technology despite a directive from Congress.

Former Norfolk Southern Corp. head Charles W. "Wick" Moorman will take the helm as president and CEO of Amtrak beginning Sept. 1, the national passenger rail line announced today.

Better not put the U.S. EPA inspector general on hold.

The country's first offshore wind farm is complete and ready to start running this fall.

Rooftop solar may shift costs of about $36 million a year to non-solar ratepayers, according to a new study based on about 30,000 consumers signed up for net metering in Nevada.

California state regulators unanimously voted yesterday to slap Pacific Gas and Electric Co. with a $25.6 million fine for failing to keep accurate records on its natural gas pipeline.

Members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe halted work on the Dakota Access pipeline this week when they blockaded a construction site south of Mandan, N.D.

Forty-three small businesses will receive $8 million to partner with the national laboratories in moving promising clean energy technologies to the marketplace, the Department of Energy said yesterday.

A working group of geologists and climate scientists later this month will being looking for a "line in the rock" that could signal the beginning of a new geological epoch defined by humanity's impact on the planet.

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