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"Bureau of Land Management Revokes American Prairie Bison Leases" [1]

"The U.S. Department of the Interior announced on Friday that it is revoking grazing permits in Phillips County [Montana] that American Prairie had been using to sustain its herd of bison."

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Source: Montana Free Press [10], 01/22/2026
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"White House Told CBS To Run Trump Interview Unedited Or Get Sued" [11]

"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CBS News to air an interview with President Donald Trump in full or face a lawsuit, according to an audio recording of the exchange reviewed by The Washington Post."

Biodiversity [3]
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Journalism & Media [12]
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Source: Washington Post [13], 01/20/2026
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"Colorado’s Wolves In The Political Crosshairs As Trump Targets The State" [14]

"A program to reintroduce the predators is essentially blocked, with Colorado leaders saying the state is being punished for jailing election denier Tina Peters."

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Government [15]
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Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [9]
Source: Washington Post [16], 01/20/2026
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Wyoming County Approves What Could Become the Largest Data Center in US [17]

"Wyoming is poised to become an artificial-intelligence powerhouse after Laramie County commissioners last week unanimously voted to move forward with the construction of a 1.8 gigawatt data center designed to eventually scale up to 10 gigawatts, which would be the largest single AI campus in the U.S. "

Climate Change [18]
Economy & Business [19]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Infrastructure [21]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Planning & Growth [22]
Water & Oceans [23]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [9]
Source: Inside Climate News [24], 01/15/2026
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Washington Wants Ship PFAS Firefighting Foam To An Incinerator In Utah [25]

"Firefighters sometimes use a special type of foam to put out fires caused by flammable liquids, like gases or solvents. But that foam contains “forever chemicals,” or PFAs."

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Northwest (OR WA) [26]
Source: OPB [27], 12/23/2025
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January 12, 2026

DEADLINE: Rio Grande Basin Journalist Training & Workshop [28]

The Water Desk invites applications for an expenses-paid, in-person training and workshop for journalists interested in covering the Rio Grande watershed to be held in El Paso, Texas, March 25-27, 2026. Deadline: Jan 12.

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Wyo. Ranchers Wanting Solar Say Utilities and State Stand in Their Way [31]

"Tim Teichert and Jason Thornock want the sun to help them survive as ranchers in Cokeville, Wyoming. On an overcast May day, the two drove around the one-restaurant town, lamenting high electricity prices and restrictive Wyoming laws that they say have thrown an unnecessary burden onto their broad shoulders."

Agriculture [2]
Climate Change [18]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [9]
Source: Inside Climate News [32], 12/16/2025
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Top Trump Official Has Financial Ties To Controversial Nevada Lithium Mine [33]

"Karen Budd-Falen, a top official at the Department of the Interior, has financial ties to the controversial Thacker Pass lithium mine in northern Nevada — a project that the Trump administration worked to fast-track during its first term. In recent months, the administration took an equity stake in the mine and the mine’s parent company."

Economy & Business [19]
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Laws & Regulations [5]
Natural Resources [34]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [9]
Source: Public Domain [35], 12/11/2025
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Top Environment and Energy Topics To Watch in 2026 [36]

Explore our 10th annual Journalists’ Guide to Environment + Energy, as we scour the beat to identify 15 top stories to put on your radar for 2026. Our updated format for the special report provides a quick read and a broad scope — with insights on climate change and environmental justice, bird and insect declines, data centers and deep sea mining, deregulation and PFAS and much more. Get started here [36].

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Economy & Business [19]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Health [42]
Environmental Justice [43]
Environmental Politics [4]
Environmental Studies [44]
Fish & Fisheries [45]
Forests [46]
Government [15]
Health [47]
Infrastructure [21]
Journalism & Media [12]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Military [48]
Natural Resources [34]
Policy [49]
Pollution [50]
Science [51]
Technology [52]
Waste [53]
Water & Oceans [23]
Wildlife [6]
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Alaska and Hawaii [54]
California [55]
Great Lakes (IL IN MI MN OH WI) [56]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [57]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [58]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [9]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [59]
Northwest (OR WA) [26]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [60]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [30]
International [61]
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Orphans and Zombies — Reporting on Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Across the Country [62]

For more than a century, oil and gas companies have been drilling — and abandoning — wells across the country, leaving hundreds of thousands to potentially leak pollutants into the air, water and soil. Climate and environment reporter Martha Pskowski looks at how funding and regulatory issues are impacting efforts to identify and plug these wells, and offers resources for drilling into their story.

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