Impacts www.nytimes.com Court blocks Trump's plan to ease bird protections on oil lands A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's plans to ease protections on an iconic western bird's habitat -- and open it to oil and gas exploration.
Politics www.nytimes.com Trump plans major rollback of sage grouse protections to spur oil exploration The proposal would limit the bird’s protected habitat to just 1.8 million acres, essentially opening up nine million acres of land to drilling.
A controversial facility that would process plastic waste to be burned in steel mills has been cancelled
