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Sand mining in Texas, particularly West Texas' Permian Basin, has exploded in recent months as drilling has recovered.

Two environmental groups have appealed the approval of a natural gas pipeline through the New Jersey Pinelands, an ecologically valuable region.

Two months of testimony in the first trial of six men accused of conspiring against federal officials in a Bunkerville, Nev., standoff concluded yesterday with the dramatic claim that authorities sat in foxholes waiting to shoot protesters.

The No. 2 attorney at U.S. EPA under the Obama administration has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, the law firm announced today.

More than 100 active wildfires are burning across Florida today, according to the Florida Forest Service.

California will likely shorten the chinook salmon season for the second year in a row.

Oregon and Washington have joined California in testing an early earthquake warning system prototype.

For the third year in a row, commercial fishermen on the West Coast will not be able to target sardines.

Conservation advocates focused on increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of both public land visitors and managers today urged Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and President Trump to maintain the Bears Ears National Monument in southeast Utah, asserting that it would be "a sign of profound disrespect to tribes" for the administration to make any changes to the 1.35-million-acre site.

An Agriculture Department predator control program will stop using cyanide devices to kill coyotes and other so-called nuisance animals in Idaho following a petition by environmental groups and a recent incident in which one of the devices injured a teenage boy and killed his dog.

More than two dozen senators want to save a popular marine grant program that the White House would like to scrap.

Great Lakes Senate Democrats are calling on the Trump administration to immediately release a draft plan to block Asian carp from Lake Michigan.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and other Cabinet secretaries met with President Trump and business leaders this morning to discuss "strategic priorities."

Don Benton, who led President Trump's "beachhead" team at U.S. EPA, is on his way out at the agency.

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley (R) resigned yesterday after a sex scandal brought criminal and impeachment investigations.

Air Alliance Houston has a new executive director: Bakeyah Nelson, a former local public health official and consultant.

Bipartisanship isn't dead. At least not on K Street.

Former Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and former House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) are putting their famous political feuds aside to co-chair a new think tank at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, focused on finding bipartisan public policy solutions.

Several conservation and government watchdog groups say they're concerned about the direction the Bureau of Land Management is headed after a draft list of agency priorities under the Trump administration surfaced this week.

GLEN DANIEL, W.Va. — A year ago, Chuck Nelson's friends weren't sure they would see him again.

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