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Advocacy group Environment America renewed its appeal for a permanent uranium mining ban near the Grand Canyon amid rising concerns that the Trump administration will end the current 20-year moratorium.

Plucking an endangered species from the wild for captive breeding is usually a wildlife manager's last resort to save the animal.

The Trump administration has withdrawn or delayed more than 1,500 rules — much more than the number under President Obama but roughly parallel with the number under President George W. Bush, according to a report from a left-leaning watchdog group released today.

After the Trump administration came out with a proposal for revised clean car rules last week, automakers and California are stepping up their fight over the high-stakes standards.

The House Natural Resources Committee today quickly approved a quartet of public lands bills addressing issues in Utah, including measures that would clear the way for a five-lane highway through desert tortoise habitat and designate a new national historical park.

A month after the House passed a landmark bill on nuclear waste, frustration has set in for congressional backers of the proposed Yucca Mountain spent fuel repository in Nevada as they come up against familiar legislative and political roadblocks.

A newly released internal watchdog report found several valid concerns about the management of the Fish and Wildlife Service's Northeast region, while dismissing more than a dozen other complaints.

The independent Office of Special Counsel has cleared Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke of allegations that he skated over the line in a 2017 speech to the Vegas Golden Knights ice hockey team.

The pressure was on last spring as EPA political appointees assembled an op-ed for Administrator Scott Pruitt on revising clean car rules.

Officials at EPA last year hoped that an executive order to repeal the Clean Water Rule would distract from the agency's other work.

A criminal investigation has opened up over the discovery of more than 100 dead wedge-tailed eagles on a farm in Australia.

Seven of the 11 cities in Russia that will host the FIFA World Cup soccer championships this month plan to kill their stray dogs.

Recent testing of the floor at a Philadelphia elementary school revealed 10.7 million asbestos fibers per square centimeter — 100 times higher than the threshold deemed alarming by health experts.

Despite the destruction it has wrought, the continued eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has been a gold mine for volcanic scientists.

North Carolina regulators have launched an investigation into underreporting of toxins in manure-filled cesspools on hog farms.

Ikea announced today that its products will be made from only renewable and recycled materials by 2030.

The Potomac Riverkeeper Network has sued a Maryland city alleging repeated violations of the Clean Water Act at a wastewater treatment facility.

Officials in Salem, Ore., yesterday reissued a limited drinking water warning after a toxic algae bloom contaminated the city's supply.

EPA has scheduled a June 22 public hearing on its planned rejection of requests from Delaware and Maryland for help in curbing ozone-forming pollution from coal-burning power plants beyond their borders.

More than 300 people rallied in Phoenix yesterday in a bid to save the Navajo Generating Station.

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