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Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge will open this summer, but most of Denver's schoolchildren won't be taking field trips there.

Environmental groups are heading to court over two key Trump administration policy changes for oil and gas development on public lands.

Talk of a possible national high-octane fuel standard dominated a meeting Friday of ethanol promoters, oil interests, an automakers group and staffers for six Senate Republicans.

Groups fighting proposed conservation cuts in the House version of the 2018 farm bill are looking toward a new potential threat: a yet-to-be released farm bill in the Senate.

House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Trey Gowdy said his panel and EPA are moving forward with interviews with top agency officials.

EPA has exempted an oil refinery owned by Carl Icahn, billionaire and former adviser to President Trump, from the renewable fuel standard, according to two industry sources.

The Alliance to Save Energy has tapped former Department of Energy and White House official Jason Hartke to be its new president.

EPA continued racing ahead today with plans to revamp its handling of scientific research, publishing a proposed rule in the Federal Register and opening a 30-day public comment period.

The Fish and Wildlife Service is sticking to its politically sensitive conclusion that the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem population of grizzly bears no longer needs Endangered Species Act protections.

The ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush announced today that he's leaving the Republican Party to run for the Senate as a Democrat.

The coal industry's loquacious purveyor of prose will set down his pen today, but not without a parting polemic to the environmentalists who loathe him.

Backers of a beleaguered pipeline proposal in New York won't get any help from the Supreme Court, as the justices today denied Constitution Pipeline Co. LLC's bid to revive the natural gas project.

Six hikers have died after a snowstorm trapped Alpine hikers in southwestern Switzerland, according to Swiss police.

A chemical spill at a soda ash factory in Bosnia last week polluted a river and nearby farmland, killing fish and prompting authorities to declare a disaster.

Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India has achieved a longtime goal of bringing electricity to every village.

Over 40 abandoned mine openings have been sealed off around a Nevada neighborhood.

The Minnesota Senate voted yesterday to get rid of a water quality rule to protect wild rice from pollution.

A proposed gold-dredging operation and reality TV show in Alaska have sparked opposition over the project's potential effects on wildlife and subsistence hunters.

The Mine Safety and Health Administration will not be releasing new rules soon, but an agency official yesterday said they could be necessary if companies do not adopt technology for safety.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke got his hands dirty this weekend.

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