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Organizations across the U.S. want to clean up abandoned mines, but federal laws could hold them liable for centuries-old pollution if they try. The new Good Samaritan Act shields them from legacy abandoned mine liability issues, but will it be enough?

Federal immigration agents began targeting agricultural communities in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas last month, leading livestock organizations to issue a joint public statement in protest. The farming and ranching advocates warned the violent arrests and deportations of working people will raise the price of beef and other staples.

Amid heavy criticism, the USDA plans to go ahead with a massive reorganization and forced relocation of nearly 3,000 workers. Advocates say it couldn’t come at a worse time, as a Super El Niño threatens a return to the Dust Bowl and a parasite eradicated 60 years ago reemerges on U.S. livestock farms.

While not as attention-grabbing as the yearly election cycle, the comment period on new federal projects is a critical way the public can influence policy under the American form of government.

Planning for the United States' first new aluminum plant in almost 50 years is underway in Oklahoma, but local opposition is mounting.

The Trump administration continues to prop up the U.S. coal industry, relaxing emissions and discharge rules at power plants even as environmental organizations, state agencies and utilities push back in court.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's new overhaul of the Forest Service would increase the lumber industry's access to public lands. Outdoor recreation businesses are allying with recreationists and conservationists to push back.