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Rock formations in Gold Butte, which President Barack Obama designated as a national monument. (AP)

It’s the economy, stupid

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Port of Oakland (Wikimedia Commons / Ingrid Taylar)

This army base once drove West Oakland’s economy. Now it drives discrimination.

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EPA science adviser says clearing board of experts leaves “huge void”

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FILE -T his Monday Oct. 22, 2012, file photo, shows a view from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Donald Trump doesn’t really give a crap what you think about national monuments

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Scott Pruitt gets debunked by climate scientists

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The water empire: How a Korean family became the source of drinking water for many Angelenos

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The newly revived Keystone XL’s future is in the hands of a red state

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Another dark chapter: “Gasland” families still fighting company that leaked methane into their water

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As the world burns

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Interior Secretary Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., may be conflicted about conservation. (AP)

Interior Secretary Zinke is a Roosevelt fanboy. So does that mean he won’t trash the place?

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Here are the 13 most critical cuts Trump has proposed making to the EPA

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Police want to search a Dakota Pipeline protest group’s Facebook page

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This tiny program keeps our coasts safe. So Trump’s gutting it, of course

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FILE - This July 10, 2008 file photo made with a fisheye lens shows ice floes in Baffin Bay above the Arctic Circle, seen from the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent. In the annual Arctic Report Card, released Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. a record emerged for sea ice, which appears when Arctic Ocean water freezes. If governments are serious about the global warming targets they adopted in Paris, scientists say they have two options: eliminating fossil fuels immediately or finding ways to undo their damage to the climate system in the future. The first is politically impossible _ the world is still hooked on using oil, coal and natural gas _ which leaves the option of a major cleanup of the atmosphere later this century. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward) (AP)

Why you’re not likely to hear climate questions during the debate

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