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For the first time in more than 20 years, prospectors today can stake their claims to mineral rights on 900,000 acres of former Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument lands.

New Interior Department regional boundaries will be in place this year, and the agency's massive reorganization will begin in Alaska, according to a document obtained by E&E News.

Canadian regulators investigated a grocery store last week purporting to sell pangolin, a scaly mammal listed as an endangered species.

The Islamic State group has left a ghastly environmental footprint on Iraq.

An American investigator in Nairobi, Kenya, who was looking into the ivory and rhino horn trade was killed in his home, according to media reports.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) wants to greatly expand recycling across the state.

Dozens of manatees died in Florida during the recent cold snap, according to the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Wisconsin Republican lawmakers are pushing a bill that would weaken protections for 1 million acres of wetlands.

Washington state lawmakers have introduced bills that include multiple strategies to protect endangered Puget Sound orcas, whose population is the lowest in 30 years.

The train crash that killed two Amtrak workers in South Carolina over the weekend could have been prevented by the GPS safety system known as positive train control, according to federal investigators.

Environmental groups, armed with research showing the oil and gas industry's contribution to ozone-forming emissions, are pressing the Trump administration to leave U.S. EPA pollution control guidelines alone.

The Puyallup Tribe and 14 other Northwestern tribes are asking Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) to halt a proposed Puget Sound Energy Inc. liquefied natural gas plant on Tacoma's Tideflats.

A Houston chemical company, along with its owner and general manager, are facing felony charges over accusations of dumping benzene and other toxic chemicals into a hidden storm drain.

The Tennessee Valley Authority has appealed a federal court ruling ordering it to clean up coal ash at its Gallatin Fossil Plant.

President Trump once criticized U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel for his ethnicity, but the federal judge is set to hear a case this week that could determine whether the president will be able to waive environmental laws to construct his long-promised border wall.

Large filter feeders, like some whales and sharks, are threatened by microplastics in oceans, according to a new study.

The number of monarch butterflies wintering in California has hit a five-year low, according to an annual count.

California is still recovering from intense downpours that caused deadly mudslides last month, and most reservoirs remain full, but the West is nonetheless faced with another drought.

Over the past several weeks, deputy White House counsel Stefan Passantino has reminded staff to use official email for work communications, not texts or encrypted messaging apps.

A political action committee created by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has a new treasurer, as it continues to invest heavily in direct-mail fundraising.

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