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Two federal agencies yesterday announced plans to reject mining applications in the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), the million-acre national forest in northern Minnesota.

CORONADO, Calif. — Western governors are urging the National Governors Association to join in a push for sweeping changes in how species are put on and removed from the endangered species list.

Observers of California's longtime water wars expect language inserted into a major water bill last week to exacerbate the ongoing competition between fish and farms for scarce supplies.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will step down from the Energy and Natural Resources Committee in the next session of Congress, creating a vacancy on the Democratic side of the dais.

Congress has left town, but lawmakers and other politicians keep engaging in skirmishes in the fight for political control of coal country.

Senate Democrats are planning to introduce legislation that would require President-elect Donald Trump to sell his business interests.

When President-elect Donald Trump created a committee to oversee U.S. industrial development, he tapped a chemical executive to lead it.

President-elect Donald Trump's choice to head U.S. EPA is beginning to give ethanol advocates the jitters.

Leaders of the Department of Energy's 17 national labs met with President-elect Donald Trump's transition team yesterday amid high speculation about the facilities' future, according to sources.

Idaho Republican Gov. Butch Otter is under consideration for Agriculture secretary, he said yesterday.

On a fall day in 1910, Harriett and John Reid were driving their horse-drawn wagon to work in their mine outside the tiny town of Searchlight, Nev., when they noticed a Native American carrying a rifle moving quickly in their direction.

A conservation easement signed today on Capitol Hill will protect a massive sculpture within the Basin and Range National Monument in Nevada, a move that outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has long pushed.

Fighting the perceived threat to the Obama administration's massive collection of climate data and resources might require convincing President-elect Donald Trump that gutting information-gathering would disrupt not only the scientific enterprise but also businesses and private-sector entities, advocates say.

Meet President-elect Donald Trump's energy and environment Cabinet: a crusader against climate rules, a former governor who's pledged to ax the agency he's been picked to lead and an up-and-coming freshman Montana congressman.

Toronto was colder than Mars yesterday, despite being nearly 50 million miles closer to the sun.

A flying fish knocked out power for nearly 200 Seattle residents, according to the Seattle City Light utility.

The city government of Colorado Springs rejected a mediated settlement with an excavating company during an executive session yesterday, leading a local lawyer to garnishee all city and Colorado Springs Utilities properties.

Wyomingites arrived in droves at a legislative subcommittee hearing Wednesday to oppose a potential transfer of federal land.

A scathing audit of Oregon's Water Resources Department found an insufficient number of water inspectors and said the agency has no "clear understanding" of state water use and no plans for the future.

The fatal black lung disease that afflicts coal miners is surging across Appalachia, afflicting 10 times the people federal regulators claim, an NPR investigation has found.

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