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An ongoing debate over the Owyhee Canyonlands along the southeast Oregon border asks a tough question: Should the wild desert be preserved as a natural wonder or developed to help the local community?

Despite Fish and Wildlife Service protests, a road that would cut through a southern Utah reserve for the threatened Mojave Desert tortoise has earned initial approval.

The conclusion of two water conservation agreements are vital for the Colorado River's health and stability, according to a report released today by a study project based at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Alaska has not supported a Democratic candidate for president since Lyndon Johnson beat Barry Goldwater in 1964. Yet GOP nominee Donald Trump is having trouble gathering steam.

The tiny town of Colstrip, Mont., is becoming a battleground in the race for governor. The town is home to the second largest coal-fired power plant west of the Mississippi and a 25,000-acre mine that exists to fuel the plant.

The Ute Indian Tribe is set on seeing House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah) lose his seat this November.

John Podesta and White House officials last year in private emails vented about Sen. Lisa Murkowski's criticism of the Obama administration's climate goals, despite signs of warming in the Republican's home state of Alaska.

A well-known George W. Bush-era U.S. EPA official is backing Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and sought to help her campaign with environmental issues, according to hacked emails.

While an "uneasy peace" has settled over the construction site of the contested Dakota Access oil pipeline today, activists took the fight online with threats to North Dakota's Republican governor and workers on-site.

Smoking a joint is the end of a long journey: A field must be plowed, trees perhaps cleared, seeds planted, water secured, rodents killed, marijuana harvested and dried.

The brutal campaign for the White House has dominated the election cycle — and worried House and Senate lawmakers dependent on the top of the ticket to sway their own races — but there's a whole other set of pitched battles going on down-ballot, covering everything from energy regulation to legalized drugs.

Tesla Motors Inc. CEO Elon Musk unveiled a much-anticipated "solar roof" Friday as part of his company's quest to be at the forefront in fighting climate change.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell expressed concern Friday for the security of her employees after a federal jury acquitted the leaders of the armed standoff at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge last winter.

The biggest battle in the decadeslong water war between Florida and Georgia starts today in, of all places, a New England courtroom. A bankruptcy court in Portland, Maine, is hosting the trial in the hot-button Supreme Court case addressing water flow and withdrawals in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river basin.

The expansion of Mexican avocado orchards has caused a higher level of deforestation than previously thought, according to officials.

At least 15 people died and 18 others were missing when a blast occurred yesterday at a Chinese coal mine.

Maryland state environmental officials plan to be months late on reports about how they investigate polluters, which some lawmakers say is a sign that the state may need more resources to enforce public health laws.

A Kentucky environmental agency may require a landfill that handled radioactive waste to install monitors and pay for radon testing at nearby schools.

Two types of genetically engineered potatoes have been approved by the Department of Agriculture to resist pathogens that caused the Irish potato famine.

The Environmental Defense Fund has launched a public outreach campaign urging U.S. EPA to extend the reach of new emissions guidelines to low-producing oil and gas wells.

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