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In the ongoing trial over the armed occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, a sheriff has said he wasn't given adequate warning that authorities were planning to arrest leader Ammon Bundy when he was on his way to a neighboring community.

The Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog seems to be making a comeback in Yosemite National Park, scientists said yesterday.

Last week, the Forest Service promised increased access for younger visitors, nonprofits, groups and schools to special-user permits (Greenwire, Sept. 29). The White River National Forest in Colorado kicked off the new approach, and two days later, 2,000 thirsty hikers climbed through the park to a remote 10th Mountain Division hut for its second annual "backcountry tap room."

Some species gained higher levels of protection yesterday at the U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, while others failed to get the required two-thirds majority vote.

The Fish and Wildlife Service today announced that it will protect under the Endangered Species Act a beetle once believe extinct and a tiny freshwater fish, which could impede certain economic development in the southeastern United States.

Before the Dakota Access pipeline sparked a national debate, a group of activists in West Texas waged a battle against Energy Transfer Partners LP — the company behind Dakota Access — when it tried to run a 143-mile natural gas pipeline through Texas to Mexico.

The Paris climate agreement likely will take effect this week now that European Union lawmakers have endorsed the deal.

West Virginia's junior senator will hold a field hearing tomorrow in Logan, W.Va., to examine the local impacts of U.S. EPA's carbon regulations.

A diverse alliance of interest groups is urging lawmakers to allow a suite of energy tax breaks to expire at the end of the year.

The League of Conservation Voters Action Fund today announced its endorsement of Jane Dittmar to serve as Virginia's 5th District representative.

California Republican Rep. Steve Knight yesterday seized on challenger Bryan Caforio's failure to include water security among the most important issues facing the northern San Fernando Valley-based district.

The Sierra Club today unveiled its get-out-the-vote strategy, announcing it will deploy 36 staffers to races across the country as it aims to mobilize its 2.4 million members in November.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine issued a fundraising pitch for the League of Conservation Voters ahead of his debate tonight with Republican rival Mike Pence, characterizing the GOP ticket as "anti-science and anti-environment."

LOVELAND, Colo. — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump last night rallied the capacity crowd at the Budweiser Events Center here to sometimes deafening cheers — vowing to support hydraulic fracturing, conserve public lands and bring back mining.

Michigan voters haven't been kind to GOP presidential nominees in recent decades — the state last backed a Republican for the White House in 1988 — but former reality TV star and businessman Donald Trump believes blue-collar voters in the Rust Belt state will end the party's long drought.

The Supreme Court's delay in scheduling oral arguments in a dispute over a parcel of land in Wisconsin has led to speculation that justices are trying to avoid a 4-4 split in the case.

The wife of outgoing Yosemite Superintendent Don Neubacher will soon retire from a top position at the National Park Service.

Former Exelon Corp. executive Maria Korsnick has been tapped to lead the Nuclear Energy Institute, the industry's largest lobbying and policy group.

Billionaire environmentalist and Democratic benefactor Tom Steyer is popping up frequently on California television screens four weeks ahead of Election Day. He appears prominently in three political ads, all of which promote voter registration while skewering GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. Steyer's political action committee, NextGen California, has spent $7.2 million this year on anti-Trump spots, ads that run only in the Golden State. The donations, ads and other Steyer actions are prompting renewed questions about the billionaire's longer-term goals.

There is no agency in China that oversees its overcrowded natural areas, which are seeing sudden popularity due to middle-class citizens seeking a break from polluted cities.

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