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Conservationists won their legal challenge to BLM oil and gas lease sales in Wyoming, but industry is celebrating the court’s ruling that the agency isn’t capable of determining the impacts of emissions.

Hundreds of parcels of land in a massive 2022 Wyoming oil and gas lease sale are in limbo after a U.S. district court ruled last month that the Bureau of Land Management did not fully consider impacts from oil and gas operations on water quality and declining species populations and failed to demonstrate how it factored future greenhouse gas emissions into its decision to hold an auction.

Western Conservationists and Industry Each Tout Wins in a Pair of Rulings From the Same Court

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Is the Keystone XL Pipeline Back?

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A company has proposed to build a crude oil pipeline crossing the Canadian border near where the long-contested project would have entered the United States.

No project better embodies the nation’s wild swings in climate and energy policy than the Keystone XL pipeline.

Is the Keystone XL Pipeline Back?

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Meeting Climate Targets Requires Humanity to Reorient Its Relationship With Nature, New Study Says

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A team including scientists, Indigenous people and conservationists point to the ecosystem connecting Yellowstone and the Yukon as an example of a region where humans and nature are flourishing together.

Governments cannot reach their climate goals without rethinking humanity’s relationship to the Earth.

Meeting Climate Targets Requires Humanity to Reorient Its Relationship With Nature, New Study Says

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Severe Exposure to ‘Forever Chemicals’ During Pregnancy Could Lead to Childhood Asthma

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A new Swedish study focuses on very high levels of PFAS exposure in drinking water.

Exposure to “forever chemicals” during pregnancy could increase the risk of childhood asthma, according to new research from Sweden.

Severe Exposure to ‘Forever Chemicals’ During Pregnancy Could Lead to Childhood Asthma

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