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Three conservation groups representing Western rural communities and interests announced a new coalition aimed to influence federal policy on large-scale resource planning, including cooperative management of private and public lands.

The Interior Department today today named wildland firefighter and seasoned federal administrator Bryan Rice as the new director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

A key member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today tried to calm jitters around an Energy Department directive that would bolster coal and nuclear plants.

The acting chief of U.S. EPA's research office and its acting science adviser is retiring after more than 40 years at the agency.

The Interior Department is exploring a proposal to exchange two parcels owned by an Alaskan tribal corporation for lands within the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge that would be used to route a controversial gravel road through a wilderness area.

Justice Neil Gorsuch's skepticism over the deference courts should give federal agencies is already showing in his brief time on the Supreme Court bench.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt moved today to curb settlements with environmental groups, a practice critics say the Obama administration used to issue new regulations.

The remnants of Hurricane Ophelia turned skies red in England as it dragged in tropical air and dust from the Sahara, according to a BBC weather presenter.

The Portuguese government is facing criticism over its response to deadly wildfires this week.

Louisiana roadside attraction Tony the tiger, the subject of a long legal battle, has died at age 17, according to the Animal Legal Defense Fund.

Proposed changes to New Mexico's state science standards were roundly condemned at a crowded public hearing in Sante Fe yesterday.

A judge has allowed a wild horse roundup in southwestern Wyoming to continue amid a court standoff between wild horse advocates and the Bureau of Land Management.

A New Jersey contractor that received $1.3 million in federal relief funds to do renovations for 23 homeowners after Superstorm Sandy is being accused of fraud.

Two New Mexico water companies are suing over the state's restrictions on how much water oil and gas producers can take from a giant aquifer.

Exposure to air pollution in the womb could have lifelong consequences, according to a new study.

Public health officials are urging Californians to be careful when cleaning up their homes after the devastating wildfires that plagued the state.

With water service crippled in Dorado, Puerto Rico, after Hurricane Maria, some residents have been unwittingly drawing from a spigot on a site riddled with chemical contamination.

Many of the largest technology companies are falling short of promises to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a Greenpeace report released yesterday.

A conservative think tank urged U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt again today to reconsider the 2009 endangerment finding, the science that underpins his agency's climate rules.

The Interior Department's newly refurbished library is an award-winning throwback and throw-forward, all at the same time.

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