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After an outcry from environmental groups, a federal judge yesterday issued an order to prevent thousands of domestic sheep from grazing on a parcel of land in eastern Idaho.

FLORIDA CITY, Fla. — Invasive lizards have been running rampant across South Florida since March, eating every egg they can find, and there's nothing stopping people from buying more of them as pets.

Leaders of the House Ethics Committee announced an investigation yesterday into Michigan Rep. John Conyers (D) after an explosive BuzzFeed article reported a pattern of sexual harassment of his staff.

Senate Democrats yesterday called on Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to drop his push to scrap the remaining global transparency requirements for oil, gas and mining companies.

A new poll shows an average of 62 percent of respondents surveyed in eight Republican-held congressional districts oppose oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Senate appropriators yesterday released fiscal 2018 defense and homeland security spending bills that will face Democratic resistance over proposed hikes to Pentagon spending and dollars for a controversial border wall.

Senate Democrats are urging Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to officially reverse course on the Fish and Wildlife Service's move to allow elephant trophy imports.

The Federalist Society has launched a project to identify regulations whose costs exceed the benefits.

Former Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) has jumped into the battle over whether or not to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling.

The Sierra Club announced a new digital ad campaign in Arizona and Tennessee opposing the Republican tax plan, joining a recent spate of environmental ad spending condemning the GOP plan to open drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The Navy has a candidate to lead its energy and environment wing.

The Federal Election Commission is looking into discrepancies and other potential problems on the campaign filings of a political action committee formerly affiliated with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.

Shelving President Obama's signature climate rule remains a crowning moment in Elbert Lin's meteoric rise in the legal world.

Federal officials might be grounded from pursuing companies whose operations incidentally kill migratory birds, under a two-pronged maneuver now advancing publicly on Capitol Hill and quietly inside the Interior Department.

Wyoming-based property rights attorney Karen Budd-Falen recently vowed that if she is confirmed to lead the Bureau of Land Management, she will "advocate for local government involvement," criticizing an inside-the-Beltway mindset that she said currently pervades land-use planning.

Three hundred seventy-two U.S. EPA employees took buyouts this year, with the enforcement and research offices among the hardest hit, according to agency data obtained by E&E News. "We are going to be able to hang a shingle on the outside of the building and still call it EPA," a union official said, "but we're not going to be able to still do what EPA used to do."