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Yellowstone River bridge collapse

Train carrying hot asphalt and molten sulfur spills into Montana’s Yellowstone River as bridge collapses, drinking water shut off downstream

By Matthew Brown, Gene Johnson, and others

Montana environmental activists

Gen Z climate activists from 5 to 22 years old are suing Montana for ‘choosing corporations over the needs of their citizens’

By Matthew Brown, Amy Beth Hanson, and others

FILE – Cattle graze along a section of the Missouri River that includes the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument near Fort Benton, Mont., on Sept. 19, 2011. A Biden administration proposal would allow the sales of conservation leases on federal lands to restore degraded habitat. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Biden administration wants to let conservationists lease public land just like drillers and ranchers do

By Matthew Brown and The Associated Press

FILE – The Centenario deep-water drilling platform off the coast of Veracruz, Mexico, in the Gulf of Mexico, is pictured on Nov. 22, 2013. The Biden administration will auction oil and gas leases across more than 114,000 square miles of public waters in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, March 29, 2023, in a sale mandated by last year’s climate bill compromise. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)

Companies are bidding on oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico that could produce 1 billion barrels of oil over the next 50 years

By Kevin McGill, Matthew Brown, and others

U.S. Sen. Jon Tester

Forget the Chinese balloon—selling farmland to foreign nationals is the real worry, argue U.S. lawmakers

By Matthew Brown, Sam Metz, and others

Wildfires

Wildfires are so bad the government is spending $930 million just to clear trees and underbrush from national forests

By Matthew Brown and The Associated Press

A herd of Bison in South Dakota

‘They walk in two worlds’: Bison have made a huge comeback thanks to Native American tribes

By Matthew Brown and The Associated Press

Wind farm

Biden rolls out a huge new wind farm program. The only catch—it kind of kills eagles

By Matthew Brown and The Associated Press

21 February 2021, North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne: An electric car charging at an electric vehicle charging station Photo: Horst Galuschka/dpa (Photo by Horst Galuschka/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Biden administration approves $900 million for states to build a national electric car-charging network

By Gillian Flaccus, Matthew Brown, and others

FILE – A man wears a face mark as he fishes near docked oil drilling platforms, Friday, May 8, 2020, in Port Aransas, Texas. The Biden administration is proposing up to 10 oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and one in Alaska over the next five years. The announcement on Friday, July 1, 2022, said fewer lease sales or even zero could occur, with a final decision not due for months. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Biden accused of betraying climate cause as administration proposes oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska

By Matthew Brown and The Associated Press

Western Wildfires

The U.S. government is spending $50 billion to fight wildfires where most of the affordable new homes get built

By Matthew Brown and The Associated Press

Signage at an Exxon Mobil Corp. gas station in Houston, Texas, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. Exxon is scheduled to release earnings figures on October 30. Photographer: Callaghan O’Hare/Bloomberg via Getty Images

It’s time to put a price on carbon, America’s top oil and gas lobbying group says

By Matthew Daly, Matthew Brown, and others

Towns in rural America are gradually reopening their economies as coronavirus fears feel far away.

As stores reopen in rural U.S. towns, coronavirus fears seem far away

By Matthew Brown, Amy Beth Hanson, and others

Wildlife, ranching and oil & gas interests sometimes collide on Wyoming's land

Endangered Species Act’s Pending Trump Revamp Faces 16-State Lawsuit

By Gene Johnson, Matthew Brown, and others