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Montana's attorney general is joining the legal battle over Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's decision to lift a moratorium on federal land coal mining leases.

A federal court will not reconsider its decision to revive a lawsuit over habitat for the threatened northern spotted owl.

Environmental groups and Native American tribes today formally notified the Fish and Wildlife Service that they plan to file separate lawsuits challenging the decision to remove the Yellowstone population of grizzly bears from the endangered species list.

A federal court today found that U.S. EPA violated the Endangered Species Act in its approval of a pesticide ingredient that environmentalists say is harmful to imperiled species.

Scarface, the famous 25-year-old Yellowstone grizzly bear, was shot at close range with a .30-caliber rifle by an elk hunter in 2015, according to documents obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request.

The amount of land burned by wildfires is declining globally, according to scientists.

WaterLegacy, an environmental group, claims PolyMet Mining Corp. has significantly changed its design for its proposed copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota and that the changes require a new environmental review.

A slow-moving crisis is spreading across South Florida.

Foresters have tried everything from poison to parasites to stop the emerald ash borer's decadelong slaughter of ash trees in the eastern United States. But the best ally may have been under researchers' noses the whole time: the trees themselves.

A new political action committee aims to take on appointed Sen. Luther Strange (R) in Alabama's special Senate election.

Murray Energy Corp. CEO Robert Murray said his lawyers are pursuing a restraining order against comedian John Oliver and HBO, Murray told E&E News yesterday.

Democrats filed legislation in both chambers yesterday to force the government into spending more money from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund.

Lawmakers in the House and Senate unveiled a bevy of energy bills this week as Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) introduced a comprehensive energy reform package similar to one that passed the Senate by a large margin last year.

Industry groups supporting the Trump administration's repeal of the Clean Water Rule are largely keeping quiet about a provision in a House bill to exempt the repeal from the Administrative Procedure Act.

With action stalled on major legislative items, 10 Republican senators are calling on leadership to cancel the August recess to tackle the growing workload if "meaningful progress" doesn't materialize in the coming weeks.

Military veterans have vocally protested recent pipeline projects, but some, like Garett Reppenhagen, have also worked more quietly behind the scenes, lobbying lawmakers on issues from national monuments and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to methane flaring restrictions.

The Western Governors' Association this week encouraged Congress to implement reforms to the Endangered Species Act, including measures to encourage state-led conservation efforts as well as increasing funding dedicated to delisting recovered species.

Fishing and environmental groups sued the Trump administration yesterday for concluding that Gov. Jerry Brown's (D) plan to replumb California's water system would not jeopardize key threatened species.