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Conservationists expect President Obama to designate 704,000 acres of Nevada as a national monument tomorrow despite congressional opposition to creating the Basin and Range National Monument north of Las Vegas.

Conservation groups today urged the Fish and Wildlife Service to protect moose in the upper Midwest under the Endangered Species Act.

The National Marine Fisheries Service has rejected a petition from environmental groups to prohibit all fishing of cod in the Gulf of Maine.

The Bureau of Land Management has formally approved the first oil and natural gas master leasing plan in Colorado that includes drilling restrictions designed to protect sensitive wildlife across thousands of acres in north-central Colorado.

Reality TV show star and Nevada brothel owner Dennis Hof said yesterday he has formed an exploratory committee for a potential run to replace retiring Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.).

The House Natural Resources Committee this morning approved legislation by a vote of 23-14 to significantly streamline the process for permitting mines on public land.

A key House Democrat today suggested that the oil industry should pay a price for ending the federal ban on crude oil exports in the form of more revenues, new fees or giving up long-standing tax breaks.

CropLife America has hired a former U.S. EPA official to serve as senior director of environmental policy.

The Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management will be hosting a series of listening sessions on potential reforms to the federal coal leasing program.

The White House rolled out some new climate adaptation actions today together with a progress report tracking efforts the federal government has already taken to help climate-vulnerable communities prepare for warming.

A top White House official today blasted the Senate's fiscal 2016 spending plan for the Interior Department and U.S. EPA as a threat to the Obama administration's ambitious new climate and clean water goals, saying the language is riddled with problematic riders.

Charging higher rates for water would push people to conserve more as California struggles in its fourth year of drought, economists and other experts told the state's Water Resources Control Board yesterday.

The House Natural Resources Committee approved a controversial California drought relief measure today over objections from Democrats and the Obama administration that it would reignite regional water conflicts and override endangered species protections.

Republican members of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee today pummeled U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy with questions over the science behind high-profile environmental regulations.

House leadership today pulled a fiscal 2016 spending plan for the Interior Department and U.S. EPA off the chamber floor after the introduction last night of a controversial amendment on the Confederate flag.

The White House Office of Management and Budget has been busy meeting with a wide range of stakeholders on U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan in recent weeks. On today's The Cutting Edge, ClimateWire reporter Emily Holden discusses what's at stake in these meetings and how they may affect the timing of the rollout of the final rule.

Two months after an oil spill contaminated the Santa Barbara coastline with thousands of gallons of crude, the Refugio State Beach will reopen to the public.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued a $273,000 fine for safety violations at DuPont Co.'s La Porte, Texas, plant, where four workers were killed last year.

Colorado officials have yet to pick a solution to the state's 2050 projected water shortfall of 163 billion gallons.

The fast-rising waters of Lake Michigan are a welcome change for the water body that hit a record-low level two years ago, but they are also having some unfortunate side effects.

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