Conservation

Sheila Hogan writes, "Though most legislators supported this bill last year, many of them were told to change their minds this year, and they did."

The May Day order came from a panel of Donald Trump appointees who found that an Oregon judge violated the Ninth Circuit’s mandate to dismiss the climate case in 2020.

The EPA estimates the new standards will, by 2028, reduce emissions of fine particulate matter by 770 tons, reduce mercury emissions by 1,000 pounds, and stop thousands of other tons of greenhouse gases from being sent into the atmosphere.

The four bills would force the withdrawal of a recent Bureau of Land Management rule that would allow leases for conservation, remove mining restrictions near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters, delist the gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act and block federal bans on lead ammunition.

Nevada’s senators joined federal lawmakers from six other western states Monday to demand additional funding to address the region’s long-term drought, worsened by climate change.

Federal wildlife managers Thursday agreed to decide whether or not to list a rare Nevada fish as a threatened or endangered species within the next year after failing to meet a federally required deadline.

Missoula County hopes to notch a number of conditions over the proposed expansion of a gravel pit in the Bitterroot Valley, including a bond for reclamation and a specific date for when the mine would sunset.

Karen Knudsen and Andrew Gorder write, "Regardless of political affiliation, zip code, line of work, or guiding values, we are intrinsically connected to one another by a common need for clean and abundant water."

After a Wyoming man ran a wolf down and tortured it before shooting it, more groups are speaking out against such cruelty.

The Environmental Justice Clinic this week filed an amicus brief with the Montana Supreme Court, joining the fight to ensure that the landmark Held v. State of Montana ruling of last year is upheld in the face of the state's appeal.