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The Bureau of Land Management wants to expand hiking and biking trails in Wyoming while withdrawing over 4,000 acres of nearby land from mining.

A federal official last week blasted a Colorado health officer in an email for questioning the safety of Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge.

Six wildlife-friendly senators are trying once more to impose stricter rules for incarcerating big cats like tigers, lions and leopards.

Democrats on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee want a hearing to scrutinize a White House memo suggesting the Trump administration could "ignore" climate research.

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) is pressing EPA on why Freedom of Information Act requests have slowed at the agency under Administrator Scott Pruitt.

Air regulators in Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states are backing California in its fight with the Trump administration over clean car rules.

The state of Nevada is asking new Nuclear Regulatory Commission member David Wright to recuse himself from decisions related to the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, citing his work advocating for the contentious project earlier in his career.

Marcella Burke, a deputy general counsel at EPA, has grown her portfolio in the agency's law office.

A federal judge in Georgia on Friday granted 11 states' request for an order blocking implementation of the Obama administration's controversial Clean Water Rule.

The Interior Department solicitor's office has temporarily withdrawn an Obama-era legal opinion involving the disputed ownership of minerals beneath the bed of the Missouri River in North Dakota.

The Bureau of Land Management continues to reshuffle its top leadership, replacing acting Deputy Director of Operations Mike Nedd with a senior Interior Department official who has never worked at BLM.

The Supreme Court deadlocked today on Washington state's effort to get off the hook for repairing tunnels that block salmon runs in its northwest corner, including the Puget Sound watershed.

The lake Christians believe Jesus walked on will get more water after years of drought reduced it to its lowest levels in a century.

Hawaiian officials allowed some residents back to their homes yesterday as the lava flow from the Kilauea volcano steadied.

Geologists believe a gradual landslide at Rattlesnake Ridge in Washington state is slowing down.

The West Virginia Department of Commerce has repeatedly issued false, misleading and incomplete claims about the freeze placed on the state's RISE flood recovery program, according to a review of documents by The Charleston Gazette-Mail.

SeaWorld, Ikea and Royal Caribbean have pledged to remove plastic bags and straws from their properties.

New York City and its housing authority have reached a proposed settlement with EPA and the Department of Housing and Urban Development over health and safety violations.

Elon Musk has promised that Tesla Inc.'s cars will activate "full self-driving features" in August.

China is testing whether roads paved with solar panels can be effective and safe.

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