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Petitioners who want to remove a subset of coho salmon from California's endangered species list will be allowed to present new evidence against the listing, the California Supreme Court ruled yesterday.

Blaine Cooper, the first cooperating witness to testify against fellow Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupiers, described a meeting in Ammon Bundy's home on Dec. 29, 2015, when the host discussed taking over the Oregon refuge.

A seven-year court fight over a power plant permitting issue could go yet another round if a Michigan utility has its way.

A panel of three appeals judges today threw out a lawsuit that charged U.S. EPA was trying to bypass a court's decision to toss out a pair of wastewater treatment policies.

A federal court will rule soon on an American Indian tribe's latest attempt to freeze construction of the Dakota Access pipeline.

Eight wildlife rangers in four countries were killed last week, highlighting the dangers rangers face while protecting the world's lands and species.

Humans are the leading cause of wildfires, causing 84 percent of blazes nationwide and about 60 percent in national parks.

Asylum seekers entering Canada from the United States may face dangerous flooding in coming weeks as snowpack melts in the plains of the northern United States and the Canadian province of Manitoba.

The Wyss Foundation today announced a pledge for up to $65 million for an African conservation group to protect and manage four existing parks and up to five new protected areas.

The House Natural Resources Committee's top Democrat today questioned the legality of the Interior Department's indefinite pause on its new fossil fuel royalty calculation.

Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling Inc. has brought on K Street help.

Nichole Distefano, a former senior U.S. EPA official, has returned to Capitol Hill.

A broad coalition of local leaders from Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Nevada and the Ute Tribe are urging senators not to approve a resolution that would kill an Obama administration rule designed to control methane emissions from thousands of oil and natural gas drilling operations on federal and Native American lands.

President Trump has repeatedly promised he will spend big on infrastructure, but officials in his administration and Congress told governors not to expect much new federal investment.

Some Republicans are pushing back against conservatives who want to slash clean energy research spending.

U.S. EPA staff and environmentalists have been bracing for big cuts to the agency's budget under the Trump administration, but a plan to slash funding by almost a quarter was even more than some expected.

The Department of Homeland Security provided about a third of the $50 million it promised the Interior Department to mitigate the impacts of barriers installed along the U.S.-Mexico border during the George W. Bush administration, according to a report obtained by E&E News.

President Trump is expected to issue an executive order that would shift the burden for renewable fuel standard compliance from oil refiners to fuel blenders, an ethanol industry official said today.

President Trump is big on keeping the promises he made on the campaign trail.

The Trump administration is looking to slash 10 percent from the Interior Department budget in fiscal 2018, according to several sources familiar with the White House's preliminary request.

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