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GOP targets environmental rules after wildfires

WASHINGTON – House Republicans are targeting environmental rules to allow faster approval for tree cutting in national forests in response to the deadly wildfires in California. M...

DATE: Oct 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Bipartisan Senate bill aims to prevent Western wildfires

WASHINGTON – As wildfires rage across California and the West, Democratic and Republican senators have joined forces to help rural communities better prepare for and prevent catastrophic wil...

DATE: Oct 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Former drug czar nominee Marino defends role in opioid law

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s former nominee to be the nation’s drug czar is defending his role in writing a law that critics say weakened the government’s authority to stop companie...

DATE: Oct 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Dems slam Arctic drilling plan as ‘polar payout’ to Big Oil

WASHINGTON – Democrats and environmental groups on Tuesday denounced a Republican plan to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, saying it would defile a cro...

DATE: Oct 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

House GOP moves to revamp law on national monuments

Utah’s Rob Bishop creates bill to prevent designations of certain size

DATE: Oct 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Feds remove protections for 10M acres of sage grouse habitat

WASHINGTON – The Interior Department said Thursday it is withdrawing protections for 10 million acres of federal lands used by the threatened sage grouse to open it up for energy development...

DATE: Oct 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Judge reinstates Obama-era rule on methane emissions

Trump administration effort to eliminate regulation fails

DATE: Oct 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Zinke: One-third of Interior employees not loyal to Trump

WASHINGTON – Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Monday that nearly one-third of employees at his department are not loyal to him and President Donald Trump, adding that he is working to chan...

DATE: Sep 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Pelosi: Put off immigration overhaul, save ‘Dreamers now’

WASHINGTON – House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that she respects young immigrants who shouted her down at an event in San Francisco, but said their call for a comprehensive...

DATE: Sep 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Interior chief urges shrinking 4 national monuments in West

Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante would shrink

DATE: Sep 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Forest Service spends record $2B battling forest fires

WASHINGTON – The Forest Service has spent more than $2 billion battling forest fires around the country – a new record as wildfires blacken the American West in one of the nation’s worst fir...

DATE: Sep 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Interior: New plan will work with states on sage grouse

WASHINGTON – Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke says a new federal plan to protect the threatened sage grouse will grant more flexibility to the 11 Western states where the bird lives. ...

DATE: Aug 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News