Florida Republican lawmakers scuttled a planned House vote to advance a major overhaul of the Endangered Species Act, raising questions about whether the long-time GOP priority can still succeed. The development was a blow to House Natural Resources Commi... See more
The last time Congress abolished a monument, President Jimmy Carter was serving out his final weeks in the White House. Nearly 50 years later, Texas Sen. John Cornyn is pressing his colleagues to dust off the rarely used authority to abolish a national mo... See more
A federal commission approved President Donald Trump’s plans Thursday for a $400 million White House ballroom, asserting a federal court’s order to halt construction has no bearing on its review process. A majority of the National Capital Planning Commiss... See more
Senate Energy and Natural Resources ranking member Martin Heinrich said he would vote against President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the nation’s largest land agency — warning that a string of “unreliable” officials have duped lawmakers in the current ad... See more
A federal judge issued a firm rebuke to the Trump administration in the long-running legal battle over hydropower dams in the Pacific Northwest, agreeing with environmentalists who asserted the infrastructure must be operated to support endangered fish po... See more
