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Wyoming-based attorney Karen Budd-Falen, who is vying to lead the Bureau of Land Management, recently suggested that ranchers who believe federal grazing permits give them ownership of the land make "good arguments," but she stopped short of endorsing the concept pushed by Cliven Bundy and others.

Two of President Trump's top environmental nominees took a step closer to Senate confirmation today.

ATWOOD, Kan. — There's a fierce debate raging on the Great Plains over the future of America's native grasslands. Conservationists are pressing Congress to write tough protections into the next farm bill for what they call the nation's "greatest resource," but many farmers are vowing resistance. "Half of this county is grass. How much more do they need?" Kansas farmer Ken Holle said.

The violent volcanic eruption that began Saturday on the Indonesian island of Bali has sent thousands fleeing, but some people are sticking around to take in the show.

Officials took on anti-fracking protesters yesterday in Olympia, Wash., where dozens of activists had blocked railroad tracks for days.

Montana officials will allow Hecla Mining Co. to go ahead with exploratory work on a proposed silver and copper mine, but they warned that the license could be pulled depending on an investigation of company President Phillips Baker's environmental history.

U.S. EPA announced yesterday that three industrial plants in Wisconsin broke federal laws regulating hazardous chemicals.

One of the largest wastewater plants in Maryland dumped four times more nitrogen and phosphorus into the Chesapeake Bay watershed last year than permitted, according to an environmental group.

Interior Department auditors are raising "significant" concerns about the management of a high-profile groundwater cleanup project in California's San Joaquin Valley, a new advisory reveals.

The situation for Citgo Petroleum Corp. is looking increasingly dire in Venezuela, which is racked by political and economic upheaval.

Wisconsin's largest utility may shut down a coal-fired power plant next year, ahead of schedule.

U.S. EPA will keep required renewable fuel volumes about even in the next year, the agency said today. Biofuel groups cheered the decision, while gas and oil interests are disappointed because they are opposed to the mandates.

One of the West's largest coal-fired power plants will continue running until 2019 under a new lease signed by the Navajo Nation, Interior Department and plant's owners.

The Bureau of Land Management has launched a challenge of a federal court ruling that stopped the agency from sterilizing a wild horse herd in Idaho.

A New Jersey businessman was arrested yesterday and charged with stealing money from a fundraiser for victims of Hurricane Maria.

A group of 32 Chinese investors has sued Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) — a potential 2020 presidential hopeful — and his former electric car company.

Environmental groups have taken a long-running battle over Texas haze reduction requirements to a federal appellate court after U.S. EPA argued a lower-court judge lacks the authority to rule on the merits of a cleanup plan submitted last month.

An environmental group filed a lawsuit yesterday accusing U.S. EPA of withholding records related to Administrator Scott Pruitt's directive on the so-called sue-and-settle phenomenon.