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Conservation Groups Blast Trump’s Latest Choice to Head Up the Bureau of Land Management

President Donald Trump chose former U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce to head the public lands agency, drawing ire from environmentalists.

By Kiley Price

Western States Brace for a Uranium Boom as the Nation Looks to Recharge its Nuclear Power Industry

By Jake Bolster, Dylan Baddour, Wyatt Myskow

Trump Targets Federal Employees Working on Conservation and Environmental Protection

By Katie Surma

Use of Congressional Review Act on BLM Plans Could Impact State Plans Under Other Agencies

By Sarah Mattalian

Climate Change Comes for the House of the Seven Gables

By Ryan Krugman

The Sage Grouse Could Face More Development in Its Critical Habitat Under Trump

By Jake Bolster

Proposal to Undo Roadless Rule Would Open Some of Southern California’s Last Wild Forests to Development

By Wyatt Myskow

National Parks Are Staying Open During the Government Shutdown, Putting Visitors and Resources at Risk

By Wyatt Myskow

Citing ‘AI Arms Race,’ Trump Administration Announces Efforts to Rekindle US Coal Industry

By Jake Bolster

Bureau of Land Management to Sell Off Federal Coal Reserve Leases in Wyoming

By Arcelia Martin, Jake Bolster

A Tumultuous Moment for Public Lands and All Who Rely on Them

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One of the First to Benefit From Trump’s Cuts to Environmental Review: a Nevada Gold Mine

By Wyatt Myskow

The Beaver Creek Wild and Scenic River runs through federal land near the White Mountains National Recreation Area in Alaska. Credit: Bob Wick/BLM

The Beaver Creek Wild and Scenic River runs through federal land near the White Mountains National Recreation Area in Alaska. Credit: Bob Wick/BLM

House Republicans’ Use of Little-Known Law to Strike Down Public Land Plans Could Be Pandora’s Box Moment

By Zoë Rom

Trump Administration Moves to Dismantle Conservation as an Official Use of Public Lands

By Anika Jane Beamer

House Republicans Push New Coal Bills, but Critics Say the Industry’s Decline Can’t Be Reversed

By Carl David Goette-Luciak

Court Temporarily Halts Land Transfer That Would Allow a Mine to Destroy Western Apache Sacred Land

By Wyatt Myskow

BLM Calls New Oil and Gas Rules ‘Noncontroversial,’ Exempts Them From Public Comment

By Jake Bolster

Potential Repeal of Roadless Rule Could Permanently Damage Midwest National Forests

By Sarah Mattalian

The south and west reaches of Lonesome Lake are visibly shallow in this July 2025 photo taken while descending from Jackass Pass. Long reputed to have quality issues related to human waste, the Shoshone National Forest lake is being examined for an E. coli impairment after regulators initially detected fecal bacteria levels several hundred times more than is believed to be safe. Credit: Mike Koshmrl/WyoFile

The south and west reaches of Lonesome Lake are visibly shallow in this July 2025 photo taken while descending from Jackass Pass. Long reputed to have quality issues related to human waste, the Shoshone National Forest lake is being examined for an E. coli impairment after regulators initially detected fecal bacteria levels several hundred times more than is believed to be safe. Credit: Mike Koshmrl/WyoFile

Wyoming’s Crowded Lonesome Lake Tops EPA’s National Survey for Fecal Contamination

By Mike Koshmrl, WyoFile

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