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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- A top Department of Agriculture official yesterday said a new Forest Service rule regulating snowmobile access will likely be released within the next few weeks.

United for Wildlife got the royal treatment yesterday as the global coalition strives to halt the poaching of endangered species.

Overfishing by low-income nations is depleting fish stocks in the tropics, a new study says. While marine catch has decreased elsewhere in the world, in the tropics fishing now accounts for almost 45 percent of the global wild marine catch, compared with 12 percent in 1950, according to early findings from the "State of the Tropics" report.

The Fish and Wildlife Service announced yesterday that it expects to finish a recovery plan for the threatened Canada lynx in early 2018, almost two decades after the species first received federal protections.

The married couple that authorities say killed three people during a Las Vegas shooting spree were kicked off the Nevada ranch where Cliven Bundy led a protest against grazing fees on public land, the rancher's son said.

The salt that melts ice and snow on roads could be affecting butterflies and the roadside plants they eat in unclear ways, according to new research.

Women and young children should increase their seafood consumption for health development benefits, U.S. EPA and the Food and Drug Administration recommended in draft guidelines released today.

The National Marine Fisheries Service will not provide protections to the great hammerhead shark, the agency announced today.

Conservationists in northern Minnesota are asking the Forest Service to conduct a broad review of the potential impacts of mining within Superior National Forest near the border with Canada.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Top Interior Department officials here yesterday warned against delaying the Fish and Wildlife Service's court-ordered September 2015 deadline to decide whether to list the greater sage grouse as a threatened or endangered species.

Progressive group Americans United for Change is running an ad today in Iowa questioning Senate Republican candidate Joni Ernst's support for the renewable fuel standard.

Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) released the first television ads in her re-election bid today, including one spot that touts her work to give health care to veterans and families stricken by exposure to contaminated water at the state's Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.

Rep. Vance McAllister (R-La.) is distancing himself from comments he made last week that appear to suggest he cast a vote on a Bureau of Land Management bill in the hopes of receiving a campaign contribution in return.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- President Obama held a closed-door videoconference yesterday with Western governors gathered here at an annual conference, asking them to help push Congress to get behind his fiscal 2015 budget proposal to fund excess wildfire suppression costs with disaster relief dollars instead of raiding federal programs that help make forests resilient to blazes.

A top White House official announced today that the public will be able to nominate marine areas for protection, as part of the administration's efforts to use executive power to tackle environmental issues.

A lame-duck session following November's midterm elections represents the best chance before 2017 of pushing a long-term highway and transit funding bill through Congress, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) said this morning.

Two top Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee called on Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) to hold a hearing on the U.S. Chemical Safety Board's findings on the cause of BP PLC's Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.

With little fanfare, a House Appropriations subpanel this morning advanced its fiscal 2015 spending proposal for the Department of Energy, Army Corps of Engineers and related agencies.

The 20-month-long effort to authorize a new round of harbor, levee, inland waterway and ecosystem restoration projects cleared the final hurdle today when President Obama signed the Water Resources Reform and Development Act into law.

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