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The proposed route and its impacts on the national monument, as well as undeveloped desert lands across seven counties, is part of an ongoing debate over green energy and how the infrastructure needed to get that electricity to the power grid will forever change previously untouched places ...

A coalition of conservation groups has petitioned the Bureau of Land Management to protect a large southern Nevada valley west of Las Vegas, citing the threat of large-scale solar development. At issue is the South Pahrump Valley and proposals to build at least five utility-scale solar ...

“Forever chemicals” are increasingly becoming more common in ingredients in pesticides, a finding that has environmental health advocates concerned about unknown toxic effects and calling for a regulatory clampdown. A new study, published Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal ...

The head of the Bureau of Land Management acknowledged in a recent letter to a conservation group that the agency has a problem responding to open records requests, but said officials are taking substantive steps to resolve the issue. BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning, in a letter sent last ...

EPA took the first step toward regulating “forever chemicals” leaching from plastic barrels, a win for environmental health advocates following defeat in a federal appeals court. The agency announced Thursday it granted an April petition from seven advocacy groups asking ...