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The move comes amid the agency’s renewed focus on prioritizing both conservation and resource extraction and compounds pressure on coal communities to diversify their economies.

The Bureau of Land Management announced Thursday that it would no longer make federally managed lands in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin available for new coal mining leases, drawing condemnation from the fossil fuel industry in the region that produces the most coal in the country, but delivering a boon to the nation’s clean energy transition.

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Mass Sloth Deaths in Florida Show Why the Wildlife Trade Is a Pandemic Risk

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Necropsy reports from sloths imported by a planned Orlando tourist attraction document stressed animals riddled with bacteria, parasites and viruses. Scientists say the situation is a warning about the threat the booming wildlife trade poses to human health.

When pathologists cut open dead sloths from a planned Florida tourist attraction, they found a plethora of pathogens.

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A Water Crisis Has The ‘Poster Boys’ of Iowa Farming Ready to Talk Regulation

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More than a decade of voluntary farm conservation programs hasn’t gotten the state far enough on water quality, the Lobe Rangers say.

ROCKWELL CITY, Iowa—James Hepp is sick of excuses.

A Water Crisis Has The ‘Poster Boys’ of Iowa Farming Ready to Talk Regulation

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The Terrible Combined With the Good

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Go behind the scenes with executive editor Vernon Loeb and North Carolina reporter Lisa Sorg as they explain how a new N.C. ratepayer bill would put the brakes on data centers while incentivizing the use of fossil fuels.

The Ratepayer Protection Act, making its way through the North Carolina legislature, conjoins two opposing ideas.

The Terrible Combined With the Good

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