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A federal panel yesterday offered new protections to deep-sea corals in the Atlantic Oceans but stopped short of protecting others so it can gather more information first.

Tribal leaders and state politicians yesterday pushed back against Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's proposed trimming of the newly formed Bears Ears National Monument.

The Bureau of Land Management yesterday advanced plans to lease land near Dinosaur National Monument in northeast Utah despite National Park Service objections that development could negatively affect the 200,000-acre site.

A prominent Las Vegas-area Democrat announced plans yesterday to run for Nevada governor.

The Nature Conservancy has hired former House aides to Texas Republicans to lobby on its behalf.

The Western Values Project today launched a six-figure ad campaign urging Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to refrain from altering federal sage grouse conservation plans.

Jane Zelikova helped launch a grass-roots science advocacy group in the wake of President Trump's election last fall that has attracted more than 20,000 women.

The Supreme Court today ruled against a Wisconsin family who claimed the state had unfairly taken their property without just compensation when it denied their bid to sell part of their riverfront property.

A Trump administration appointee at the Department of Energy who called former President Obama a "Kenyan creampuff," urged attacks against law professors and labeled people pressing for action on climate change "nuts" on Twitter is apologizing.

The Trump administration may be close to naming four key public land management positions, according to sources in the recreation and ranching communities.

The meltdown of Southern Co.'s flagship "clean coal" project in Mississippi is being portrayed by some as a death blow for carbon capture and sequestration technology. But industry analysts don't see it that way.

Thanks to a court ruling that allows domestic rhino ivory trade in South Africa, John Hume, a breeder, is planning to sell horns online.

Conservationists fear that a proposed hydroelectric dam in Tanzania would devastate the Selous Game Reserve.

Bill Croyle, who led California's response to the Oroville Dam emergency, announced Friday that he will retire in July as head of the state Department of Water Resources.

Volkswagen AG and BMW AG are delving into quantum computing and data centers, part of an effort by European carmakers to build the computing capacity they will need to produce self-driving cars.

The Arkansas State Plant Board stepped into a raging pesticide battle by voting Friday to impose an unprecedented ban on a chemical.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed a rule Friday that would roll back some Obama-era worker protections related to a mineral that can cause lung cancer and other diseases.

North Dakota farmers are concerned about a new plan from the Army Corps of Engineers designed to protect reservoir infrastructure in times of drought.

A heat wave sped up the Sierra Nevada snowmelt this week, feeding rivers and reservoirs with high-flowing runoff.

The National Nuclear Security Administration is launching an investigation into improper shipment of nuclear material from Los Alamos National Laboratory, U.S. regulators said last week.

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