WASHINGTON— Environmental and public health groups defended the nation's landmark environmental law in a brief filed today with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case challenging the law’s scope. Utah’s ...

A judge has rejected federal agencies’ approval of activities in the California Desert Conservation Area, including a vast ...

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice today of its intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to protect the critically imperiled Railroad Valley toad under the ...

American Indians were the first humans in the California desert. In fact, native Mojaves, Chemehuevis, and Quechans lived there for thousands of years before European explorers set foot in North ...