Invasive weeds will infest more than 100 million acres of public lands by 2017 if the federal government does not pick up its pace tackling the problem, a weed scientist warned lawmakers yesterday.
Federal agencies treated 3.2 percent of public land infested with invasive weeds in 2009 -- far less...
A conservation group is asking the National Park Service to eliminate potential wolf hunting in the 24,000-acre Rockefeller Parkway between Yellowstone and Grand Teton parks.
The National Parks Conservation Association is petitioning the agency to launch a “rulemaking process” to review which...
The Bureau of Land Management announced today that it has completed a years-long environmental review of what would become the largest wind power project in Arizona, covering nearly 40,000 acres of public land.
Houston-based BP Wind Energy North America Inc.'s proposed 500-megawatt Mohave County...
The Interior Department proposed a hydraulic fracturing rule today that would allow states to propose their own standards for the controversial oil and gas production technique if they can prove their regulations are as strong as federal rules.
The revised draft rules released by the Bureau of Land...
Colorado regulators this year have measured elevated wintertime ground-level ozone levels for the first time, prompting an environmental group to petition the Bureau of Land Management to halt all new oil and natural gas drilling on federal lands in northwest Colorado where the pollution was...
Utah is home to an estimated 55 percent of the country's tar sands deposits that are concentrated in eight major areas suspected to hold more than 32 billion barrels of oil, the Department of Energy says.
The Bureau of Land Management is now proposing to make 26,402 tracts of that land at Asphalt...
With flows on the Middle Rio Grande in central New Mexico expected to slow to a trickle this summer, the endangered silvery minnow is facing one of its worst years ever.
Farms and cities in the Middle Rio Grande Valley that rely on the river are also bracing for low flows. Under a 2003 plan from...
It's usually the Rio Grande's waning flow that gets the most attention from environmentalists and regulators, but water quality is also a big problem, officials made clear at a pair of meetings here yesterday.
At an afternoon event along an urbanized stretch of the Middle Rio Grande here, regional...
Carbon dioxide emissions from energy use declined in the majority of states between 2000 and 2010, according to an analysis released yesterday by the Department of Energy.
Led by big percentage decreases in CO2 emissions in Delaware, the District of Columbia, New York and Maine, states' overall...
When a Denver resident turns on the sprinkler in midsummer, it applies last winter's Rocky Mountain snowfall to the lawn. In the northern Rockies, that snowmelt fills the Columbia River, whose hydroelectric dams provide power to Seattle residents. Meanwhile, the meltwater flowing into the Colorado...
