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Protesters hold signs in opposition of the Project Jupiter data center during a demonstration outside a state office in Santa Fe, N.M., Friday, Aug. 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

EPA proposal could leave the public in the dark on data center plans

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

A bald eagle perched on a tree branch in a forest. File photo credit: Wirestock Creators via Shutterstock.

$20,000 reward offered for information leading to conviction in Louisiana bald eagle shooting

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Renewing Endangered Species Act Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Congress, amend the Endangered Species Act

By Brent Fewell and Aurelia S. Giacometto

A National Park Service sign is shown above an Information booth during a tour of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, Monday, May 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Jed Jacobsohn)

Environmentalists sue to erase Trump’s ‘bloated’ face from appearing on national parks pass

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The Spring Creek coal mine is seen in an aerial photograph, taken May 28, 2013, near Decker, Mont. (Larry Mayer/The Billings Gazette via AP)

U.S. rejects bid to lease coal from public lands in Utah as sales in western states fall flat

By Matthew Brown - Associated Press

Ethan Hickman uses a towel to wipe off sweat as he takes a break from unloading a stiflingly hot trailer of fireworks outside Powder Monkey Fireworks ahead of the opening of the stand Monday, June 17, 2024, in Weldon Spring, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Tens of millions in the U.S. are under dangerous heat warnings

By Anita Snow - Associated Press

Officials release birds after they were treated for oiling and have now recovered from the Huntington Beach, Calif., shore on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. The spill washed blobs of oil ashore affecting wildlife and the local economy, though the environmental damage so far has been less than initially feared. But environmental advocates say the long-term impact on sensitive wetland areas and marine life is unknown and shop owners in surf-friendly Huntington Beach fear concern about oil will keep tourists away even once the tar is gone. (AP Photo/Amy Taxin)

Coast Guard had earlier notice about California oil spill

By Amy Taxin and Brian Melley - Associated Press

Environmental group to sue over sea turtle protections

Associated Press

Judge: Groups can’t challenge endangered species plans

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351 sea turtles found dead on coast where 137 sea lions died

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FILE - This June 29, 2017, file remote camera image provided by the U.S. Forest Service shows a female gray wolf and two of the three pups born in 2017 in the wilds of Lassen National Forest in Northern California. The Trump administration plans to lift endangered species protections for gray wolves across most of the nation by the end of 2020, the director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. (U.S. Forest Service via AP, File)

Environmentalists say Washington’s wolf program is broken

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS - Associated Press

Group: Cattle hooves, manure spoiling Southwest US waterways

By FELICIA FONSECA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2019, file photo, two visitors ride their bikes along the road at Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California's Mojave Desert. A conservation organization has petitioned for protection of the western Joshua tree under the California Endangered Species Act due to the effects of climate change and habitat destruction. The Center for Biological Diversity filed the petition with the state Fish and Game Commission on Tuesday, Oct. 15. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Conservationists seek protection of California Joshua trees

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FILE - This Sept. 27, 2011, file photo shows a gopher frog at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans. The Center for Biological Diversity is dropping attempts to keep land in Louisiana designated critical habitat for the gopher frog that now lives only in Mississippi, but says the story’s not over. The settlement between landowners and the Center for Biological Diversity was made public Monday, July 1, 2019 in federal court.(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Environmental group ends suit over land for endangered frog

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2014, file photo, a female orca leaps from the water while breaching in Puget Sound west of Seattle, as seen from a federal research vessel that has been tracking the whale. Federal officials say they may restrict salmon fishing off the West Coast to help the Pacific Northwest's critically endangered killer whales, but two environmental groups are suing anyway to ensure it happens. The Center for Biological Diversity and the Wild Fish Conservancy asked the U.S. District Court in Seattle on Wednesday, April 3, 2019, to order officials to reconsider a 2009 finding that commercial and recreational fisheries were not likely to contribute to the orcas' extinction. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Groups sue to restrict salmon fishing, help Northwest orcas

By GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press

Lawsuit urges feds to protect snakes in Arizona, New Mexico

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FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2014, file photo, an endangered female orca leaps from the water while breaching in Puget Sound west of Seattle as seen from a federal research vessel that has been tracking the whales. Two conservation groups say the federal government is violating the Endangered Species Act by failing to consider how salmon fishing off the West Coast is affecting endangered killer whales. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Groups: US must consider how salmon fishing hurts orcas

By GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2018, file photo, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah., speaks on the Senate floor at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City. An environmental group has denounced the committee for suggesting the organization’s efforts to block construction of a U.S. military base on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa may require it to register as foreign agent. The GOP-led Natural Resources Committee says it’s examining whether nonprofit groups are being manipulated by foreign entities that want to undercut American interests. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

GOP panel’s foreign agent inquiry triggers harsh response

By RICHARD LARDNER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2014, file photo, an endangered southern resident female orca leaps from the water while breaching in Puget Sound, west of Seattle. With the Pacific Northwest's killer whales struggling, an environmental group is suing to force President Donald Trump's administration to expand protected habitat in an effort to help them recover. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Group sues to expand protected orca habitat along West Coast

By GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 18, 2011, file photo, a map showing confirmed and possible wolf packs in Washington state sits next to a magazine about wolves on the kitchen table of Ray Robertson, who is both both a volunteer for Conservation Northwest and a contractor for the U.S. Forest Service, near Twisp, Wash. Growth in Washington’s gray wolf population slowed dramatically in 2017, raising concerns from an environmental group that says the state should stop killing wolves that prey on livestock. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Washington’s wolf population surge slows, worrying advocates

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS - Associated Press