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As suburbs have expanded southwest of Salt Lake City over the last 10 years, carbon dioxide emissions have spiked, according to research published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The world's last male northern white rhino in Kenya looks to be on the mend, according to his veterinarian.

Utah state Rep. Mike Noel (R), a noted public lands opponent, has dropped a bill that would name the Utah National Parks Highway after President Trump.

Dozens of wildfires broke out across Kansas and Nebraska starting over the weekend, but crews were able to extinguish nearly all of them yesterday.

Regulators will almost certainly close the sardine fishing industry on the West Coast for the fourth straight year, after the population in the northern Pacific Ocean plummeted 97 percent since 2006.

New research on wildlife management systems calls into question the assumption that North America's practices are guided by science.

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn yesterday said he had no prior knowledge of President Trump's proposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum before selling stock in a steel-dependent company.

Kinder Morgan Inc. has expanded its lobbying team as the energy infrastructure company looks set to wrestle with President Trump's looming steel tariffs.

Farm groups want to jump into the litigation over President Trump's decision to scale back Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

A federal judge this week paused litigation over a controversial land deal paving the way for a major copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota.

Twenty House Democrats introduced a bill today that would codify the Obama-era targets for clean cars the Trump administration might change.

Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are calling for U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to appear before the panel to discuss the agency's budget plan.

The House this morning approved legislation to relax air quality standards for a small niche of the power industry, with supporters arguing the bill is an environmental plus because those plants burn the "coal refuse" that disfigures the landscape of western Pennsylvania.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved two dozen bills this morning in rapid-fire fashion, with dissent from Democrats on only one related to liquefied natural gas exports.

ANCHORAGE — The Interior Department will begin the environmental scoping process for selling leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's coastal plain in the coming weeks, Interior Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt said today at an Alaska industry breakfast.

The Bureau of Land Management will remain neutral on whether the Air Force should be allowed to expand its massive training range into Nevada's Desert National Wildlife Refuge, a proposal that would place 70 percent of the 1.6-million-acre site within the boundaries of the military installation.

Less than two weeks before scheduled Supreme Court arguments, a Tesla company and an Arizona utility have made major progress toward resolving a lawsuit over solar installation fees.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders insists that President Trump's "position on trophy hunting remains the same," despite his own Fish and Wildlife Service's latest action to the apparent contrary.