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The Bureau of Land Management wants Congress to give the agency more flexibility to find new homes for some of the 58,000 wild horses and burros roaming Western rangelands.

Police arrested a Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupier Monday for a warrant issued in Kansas.

Before he was shot, Oregon occupier Robert "LaVoy" Finicum shouted to police that he needed to see "the sheriff" -- Grant County, Ore., Sheriff Glenn Palmer.

Ammon Bundy urged Oregon residents to expel the federal government from their borders to prevent it from putting citizens "in chains" and seizing natural resources.

Internal watchdogs at key environmental and energy agencies would see more cash under President Obama's budget plan.

The lion's share of the funding for coastal storm damage repairs in President Obama's fiscal 2017 budget proposal would go to a single project in the Chesapeake Bay.

President Obama is again proposing that Congress enact broad changes to how the nation budgets for wildfires as the cost of fighting them continues to rise.

President Obama's request to boost drinking water infrastructure loans is part of a long-term progression and not a reaction to the water problems in Flint, Mich., U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said yesterday.

The Obama administration yesterday requested a $1.6 billion budget for the Fish and Wildlife Service, approximately the same amount it asked lawmakers for the year before.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is expected to end his struggling bid for the GOP presidential nomination today following a sixth-place finish in the New Hampshire primary last night.

The White House budget director signaled today that the administration would support providing federal funds for Flint, Mich., in an emergency supplemental appropriations measure.

Two environmental groups are asking the Bureau of Land Management to investigate an incident in which they say an agency-contracted auctioneer struck a climate protester with his SUV shortly after presiding over an oil and gas lease sale in Colorado.

Critics of the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan are gleeful in the wake of the Supreme Court's unexpected move yesterday to freeze the rule.

Administration officials and environmentalists are attempting to quell concerns that the Supreme Court's decision yesterday to freeze the Clean Power Plan would set the United States back on its broader greenhouse gas reduction goals.

Many lawyers dismissed challengers' novel attempt to ask the Supreme Court to step in and block the Obama administration's climate change rule for power plants. It had never been done before, they argued. But yesterday, the court granted the request, shocking U.S. EPA's friends and foes alike. Now there's precedent, and lawyers wonder what it means for future challenges to major regulations.

Following this week's surprising blow by the Supreme Court to the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, how will the court's decision to stay the rule impact pending litigation and state action on compliance? During today's OnPoint, David Doniger, director and senior attorney of the Climate and Clean Air Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, reacts to the decision and discusses the strategy as litigation on the rule moves forward. Doniger also talks about the effect the court's decision could have on international climate dialogues post-Paris.

Cuba has added organic honey to its catalog of prime agricultural exports, making the bee product the Caribbean island's fourth most valuable commodity behind fish, tobacco and drinks, but ahead of sugar and coffee.

Delhi will place new limits on vehicle use in a bid to cut air pollution in the city.

A wolf attacked and killed a family dog Tuesday in Duluth, Minn., as the declining deer population in the area forces the animals to seek food in urban areas.

A rare weather event caused thousands of snowballs to accumulate at a nature preserve and its surrounding fields in central Idaho.

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