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Deep in remote stretches of Tibet, paleontologists have had "quite an adventure" gathering fossil evidence they believe links modern cold-adapted animals from the Earth's Arctic regions with ancient animals that once hunted the jagged Himalayan badlands.

A federal judge has ordered Exxon Mobil Corp. to produce decades of documents about a pipeline that ruptured last year in Mayflower, Ark.

A North Carolina federal judge ruled this week in favor of allowing litigation by environmental groups against Duke Energy Corp. over coal ash pollution concerns to proceed.

The Bureau of Land Management is considering closing what some have called the world's largest rope swing, located on newly acquired federal land in Utah.

A falling tree killed a Taiwanese tourist Monday in a windy Yellowstone National Park.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has no immediate plans to visit Idaho to discuss a potential national monument protecting the Boulder and White Cloud mountains, but advocates on both sides of the issue have traveled to Washington, D.C., to discuss the proposal, a top department official said this week.

Fish sold around the world is mislabeled more than 20 percent of the time, according to a new interactive map that compiles more than 100 studies on seafood fraud to demonstrate the global problem.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Western governors conceded yesterday that it's unlikely the United States will turn over federal lands to the states, a move some Westerners would oppose anyway according to one Democratic governor.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- A bipartisan group of Western governors warned that a formal endangered listing for the greater sage grouse could prompt state leaders and landowners across the bird's range to stop working with federal regulators on measures to recover the grouse and other species under threat of extinction.

Senate lawmakers are considering enacting a tax holiday that would fund federal transportation projects.

An aide to Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah) who is helping the congressman craft a sweeping public lands bill will become chief of staff to Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) later this month.

Senate Finance Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) voiced skepticism today about a Republican plan to trade long-term mail delivery cuts for the U.S. Postal Service for a short-term bailout of the Highway Trust Fund.

Former Virginia Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli has joined the Senate Conservatives Fund as its new president, the group announced today.

Virginia Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte introduced an amendment to the 2015 fiscal agriculture appropriations bill today that would bar the funding of ethanol blender pumps.

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) plans to introduce legislation aimed at getting more marine sanctuaries designated in the Great Lakes, he said yesterday.

Environmental groups, led by the Natural Resources Defense Council, are asking the Federal Communications Commission to investigate 23 radio stations airing a National Mining Association ad against U.S. EPA's climate rulemaking.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy did not persuade Western governors to support the Obama administration's proposed rule to cut greenhouse gases from power plants during a closed-door meeting here yesterday.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is asking a federal appeals court to reconsider its decision to throw out a high-profile ruling that scrapped a critical agency order providing incentives for electricity users to consume less power, a practice dubbed demand response.

Obama administration officials swung back hard at mounting criticisms of a proposed Clean Water Act regulation as a much-anticipated House hearing that was at times heated and at others ensconced in legal details and specific scenarios kicked off this morning.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The Bureau of Land Management isn't going to let Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy off the hook for allowing his hundreds of cattle to trespass on federal lands, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval (R) said yesterday.

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