Valerie Richardson

Wyoming rancher facing $20M in EPA fines claims victory, keeps cash, stock pond

A Wyoming rancher facing $20 million in fines for building a stock pond on his property has settled his lawsuit with the Environmental Protection Agency in a deal that allows him to keep his watering hole and his money.

May 9, 2016

Libertarians court #NeverTrump Republicans as Trump nomination looms

DENVER -- Krista Kafer first registered as a Republican in 1992, but she switched parties hours after Donald Trump became Tuesday the all-but-certain GOP presidential nominee.

May 5, 2016

Paul Ryan: ‘Not there right now’ on backing Donald Trump

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Thursday that he is withholding his support from presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, adding to the bizarre and tense conversation that has erupted as the party tries to come to grips with its new standard-bearer.

May 5, 2016

Libertarians: Not too late for Rand Paul to win party’s presidential nod

There's still time for Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul to heed the calls of #NeverTrump voters urging him to run for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination, but the window is closing.

May 5, 2016

Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker used Greenpeace list to target climate change skeptics

When deciding which organizations to target in his probe into climate change dissent, Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude E. Walker apparently received some help from Greenpeace.

May 4, 2016

Jim Inhofe chides AGs’ ‘misuse of power’ for probe into climate-change dissent

Sen. Jim Inhofe accused 17 attorneys general of a "misuse of power" Wednesday after revelations that more than 100 universities, academics and think-tanks have been targeted in an investigation into climate-change dissent.

May 4, 2016

Gary Johnson targets #NeverTrump voters after Ted Cruz drops out

With Sen. Ted Cruz's departure Tuesday from the GOP presidential race, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson is intensifying his push for the #NeverTrump crowd.

May 3, 2016

Pro-life center, attorneys general in bid to lift injunction on undercover videos

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich's investigation into fetal-tissue sales has run into a large obstacle: a federal judge's preliminary injunction protecting the National Abortion Federation.

May 3, 2016

Virgin Islands AG subpoenas Exxon communications in climate-change probe

The Virgin Islands attorney general has demanded communications between Exxon Mobil and more than 100 U.S. universities, scientists, academics and think tanks as part of his investigation into climate change dissent.

May 3, 2016

Black Lives Matter: Cops more willing to shoot whites, study finds

In the most sweeping study of its kind, police were more reluctant to shoot black suspects than their white counterparts, contradicting the widely accepted "racist cop" narrative driving movements such as Black Lives Matter.

May 3, 2016

Police more reluctant to shoot blacks than whites, study finds

In the most sweeping study of its kind, police were more reluctant to shoot black suspects than their white counterparts, contradicting the widely accepted "racist cop" narrative driving movements such as Black Lives Matter.

May 2, 2016

$In this March 29, 2013, file photo, workers tend to a well head during a hydraulic fracturing operation outside Rifle, in western Colorado. The Colorado Supreme Court has struck down attempts by two cities to ban or delay fracking. The Monday, May 2, 2016, ruling is a victory for the oil and gas industry and for state officials who say only state government can regulate energy, not cities or counties. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)$

Colorado Supreme Court strikes down local fracking bans

The Colorado Supreme Court dealt a devastating setback Monday to the state's environmental movement by throwing out local bans on hydraulic fracturing.

May 2, 2016

Weather Channel founder calls Bill Nye a ‘pretend scientist’ in ‘Climate Hustle’

Weather Channel founder John Coleman rushed to the defense of the film "Climate Hustle," which challenges the catastrophic climate change narrative, after "science guy" Bill Nye slammed it in a clip released over the weekend as "not in our national interest and the world's interest."

May 1, 2016