Author: Ellen Knickmeyer, The Associated Press

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration on Monday rolled out some of the broadest changes in decades to enforcement of the landmark Endangered Species Act, allowing the government to put an economic cost on saving a species and other changes critics contend could speed extinction for some struggling plants and animals. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and…

WASHINGTON – Citing climate-damaging tailpipe emissions, 23 U.S. governors, including Colorado’s Gov. Jared Polis, signed a pledge backing California leaders in their showdown with the Trump administration over its plans to relax vehicle mileage standards. The stand by leaders of states and Puerto Rico, nearly all Democrats, comes as the Trump administration moves to freeze tougher…

BOKOSHE, Okla. – Susan Holmes’ home, corner store and roadside beef jerky stand are right off Oklahoma Highway 31, putting them in the path of trucks hauling ash and waste from a power plant that burns the high-sulfur coal mined near this small town. For years, when Bokoshe residents were outside, the powdery ash blowing…