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Native Americans are leading efforts to restore bison on tribal lands. They have worked with U.S. officials to transfer thousands of the animals to reservations from Badlands National Park and other federal lands.

Court records show the man accused of killing five people and injuring others at a gay bar in Colorado Springs is facing murder and hate crime charges.

Renewable energy incentives in the climate legislation signed by President Biden are expected to drastically reduce U.S. emissions. But some analysts say the measure will also boost oil and gas companies, offsetting some of the emissions reductions.

The golden eagle, an icon of the U.S. West, teeters on the edge of decline and scientists worry that a boom in wind turbines could push them over the brink. https://t.co/eqPm0MaBW2

A judge's order that forced the Biden administration to resume sales of oil and gas leases on federal land and waters was vacated Wednesday by a federal appeals court in New Orleans.

When does a forest grow old? After President Biden ordered protections for the nation’s oldest forests, disagreement is emerging over which trees should be included. https://t.co/gIMO8WaaJT

Power outages from severe weather have roughly doubled over the past two decades across the U.S. as a warming climate stirs more destructive storms that cripple broad segments of the nation’s aging electrical grid, an @AP analysis found. https://t.co/1nAjJCKIAO

Reducing forest density is central to the Biden administration’s $50 billion plan to protect against the firestorms that have exploded across western states. But the same warming trends that worsen fires are also challenging efforts to guard against them.

U.S. coal country faces an uncertain future as the Biden administration tries to put a price tag on climate damage from fossil fuels. https://t.co/r5oFVz14E5

BREAKING: Former U.S. Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke misused his position in the Trump administration to advance a development project in his Montana hometown and lied to an agency ethics official about his involvement, according to government investigators. https://t.co/xiNfbiC23x

Biden administration moves to expand solar power on US land; 2 projects in Calif. approved, with 3rd expected soon and ‘solar energy zones’ being developed in Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada By ⁦@MatthewBrownAP⁩

U.S. wildlife officials say Trump appointees relied on faulty science to strip habitat protections for the northern spotted owl. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service struck down rules that would have opened millions of acres of forest to potential logging.

After years of fruitless searches, U.S. wildlife officials say the celebrated ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 other species have gone extinct.

Huge gaps between air quality sensors in the western U.S. have created blind spots in the warning system for wildfire smoke plumes sweeping North America this summer. That comes amid growing concern over the potential health impacts for millions of people. https://t.co/UsZbRwCUkD

U.S. agriculture officials are spraying vast western rangelands to kill grasshoppers amid an outbreak of the drought-loving insects. https://t.co/CW7wTlzKe6

Droughts are getting longer and rainstorms more rare and erratic across most of the western U.S., government study finds. https://t.co/Tin6KCORoB

In tackling climate change, President Biden is running up against the U.S. oil industry -- a more powerful foe than when Democrats took on coal interests during the Obama years. https://t.co/J5UH0YIQbz