BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey joined a coalition of 27 states, territories, cities and agencies in suing the Trump administration over what she said was an effort to...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service has approved a Wyoming forest restoration project to address mountain pine beetle infestation, wildfires and shifting forest vegetation...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) —

The Washington Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that a state law that put a minimum on the amount of water that must flow in the Spokane River was valid....

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Critics and proponents are debating the merits of changes to federal environmental policy, including the effects on management of Alaska's Tongass National Forest.

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — A final environmental impact statement on a proposal to issue commercial aquarium permits in west Hawaii waters suggests awarding permits to only 10 aquarium fishermen,...

ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — The Kane County Water Conservancy District has pulled out of a pipeline project designed to pump water to two southern Utah counties, leaving Washington County as the only...

The Environmental Protection Agency has named a former attorney for the nation's largest utility to head its West Coast office, replacing the regional director ousted from the post last...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette said Sunday the far-right government of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is demonstrating its commitment to the fight against...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — More than 1,100 public comments were submitted for the proposed Lake Powell Pipeline designed to pump water to two southern Utah counties, program officials said.

SEATTLE (AP) — Wolf advocates seeking to halt the Washington Department Fish and Wildlife from shooting wolves to protect livestock have suffered another legal setback.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska's governor said the state may stop working with Goldman Sachs after the bank announced it would not finance future Arctic oil exploration.

Record-long UN climate talks end but fail to deliver a global agreement on carbon markets.

SEATTLE (AP) — A U.S. judge has thrown out a federal permit for the Washington state shellfish industry that failed to comply with environmental regulations.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A coalition of environmental organizations allege in a new lawsuit that the U.S. government failed to adequately analyze climate change impacts while approving 130 oil and...

ELKO, Nev. (AP) — The Latest on U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt's visit to northern Nevada (all times local, PDT):

2:55 p.m.

U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt toured a...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. government attorneys say the Trump administration plans to finish a new environmental review of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada even if a federal appeals court...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Eight conservation groups sued Tuesday to stop the largest sale of Alaska old growth timber in decades, claiming the U.S. Forest Service violated environmental policy and...

VENDOR, Ark. (AP) — A recent ruling has upheld an Arkansas hog farm's lawsuit against the state's environmental policy-making body over its permit application to operate near the Buffalo River.

NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — The Coast Guard, in seeking public comment on a review of the environmental impacts related to building the National Coast Guard Museum on the downtown waterfront, has released the museum's newest design.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top White House adviser for energy and environmental policy is resigning.

Michael Catanzaro will be returning to CGCN Group, the law and lobbying firm where he previously worked.

Catanzaro had headed domestic energy issues for the White House's National Economic Council. He will be replaced by Francis Brooke from Vice President Mike Pence's office.

Catanzaro had been a leading figure in President Donald Trump's aggressive deregulatory and pro-fossil-fuel agenda.

SANTA TERESA, N.M. (AP) — The Latest on construction of President Donald Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico (all times local):

2:45 p.m.

The state of California is appealing a court ruling that upheld President Donald Trump's authority to waive environmental reviews for his proposed border wall with Mexico.

JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. Court of Appeals decided that the National Park Service does not need to substantively assess the elk hunt every year to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act.

The Jackson Hole News and Guide reports the court found last week that a decade-old plan, a 2007 environmental impact statement, was adequate.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont Legislature is supporting the Paris climate agreement despite President Donald Trump's decision to have the United States leave the agreement.

During this week's one-day veto session, the Senate passed a resolution urging Republican Gov. Phil Scott to support funding and policies to combat climate change.

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — A Minnesota environmental policy professor has been chosen to lead a new Ivy League energy policy center funded by a fossil fuel conglomerate-owning family.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A coalition of conservation groups has filed a lawsuit aimed at blocking plans to allow fracking in eastern Ohio's Wayne National Forest.

The Sierra Club, Ohio Environmental Council and the Center for Biological Diversity filed the lawsuit Tuesday in U.S District Court in Columbus.

LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — Environmental groups are asking a judge to stop the federal Wildlife Service agency from killing wolves in Idaho.

The Lewiston Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/2lLCR4j ) that the groups have filed a motion for summary judgment in their case, which argues the Wildlife Services has failed to follow the National Environmental Policy Act when killing dozens of wolves in Idaho's Lolo zone over the last six years.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Latest on the federal government's shuttered nuclear waste repository (all times local):

9:15 a.m.

Watchdogs are calling on U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz to follow federal environmental laws as his agency works to reopen the government's troubled nuclear waste repository in southeastern New Mexico.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Republican Gov.-elect Chris Sununu will have a chance to shape New Hampshire's judicial, education, criminal justice and environmental policy.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The state Supreme Court is considering whether Connecticut's environmental protection agency and state regulators were wrong for not studying the potential environmental impact of a major natural gas expansion plan before they approved it in 2013.