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The latest on the Key Bridge collapse, New York puts forth legislation to get clean energy projects on the grid and Wisconsin and other states join a federal summer food program to help feed kids across the country.

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Republicans float conspiracy theories on the collapse of Baltimore's Key Bridge, South Carolina's congressional elections will use a map ruled unconstitutional, and the Senate schedules an impeachment trial for Homeland Secretary Mayorkas.

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Historic wildfires could create housing and health issues for rural Texans, a Kentucky program helps prison parolees start a new life, and descendants of Nicodemus, Kansas celebrate the Black settlers who journeyed across the 1870s plains seeking self-governance.

MA: Public Lands/Wilderness

It is said founding father Alexander Hamilton once remarked,
Wild Turkeys in MA: A Model for Conservation Efforts Nationwide

Wild turkeys are not only the official game bird of the Commonwealth but the latest champion of conservation efforts in Congress, where …

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The Mount Grace Land Conservation Trust is the neighborhood Land Trust for 23 towns in northern and central Massachusetts. (Wikimedia Commons)
Anthology Spotlights Value of Land Trusts Across Northeast

NORTHFIELD, Ma. -- Land trusts across the Northeast have partnered with poets this year for the first edition of "Writing the Land," an anthology to …

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A new report has found that natural features such as the dunes at Cape Cod National Seashore are more effective than man-made barriers at protecting communities during big storms. (Donna Benavides/Wikipedia)
Report: Nature Offers Best Protection Against Natural Disasters

CAPE COD, Mass. -- As hurricane season begins, a new report from The National Wildlife Federation and Allied World insurance shows that natural …

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Boott Cotton Mills is part of Lowell National Historical Park, which has a maintenance backlog of more than $20 million. (National Park Service)
Vote Expected This Week on Bill to Fix National Parks

BOSTON -- Congress is expected to vote this week on a bill that would cut in half the maintenance backlog at national parks and other federal sites…

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Scientists say that warmer, drier growing seasons are stunting the growth of sugar maples (Ogden Gigli/Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism).
Analysis Cites Threats to New England Forests from New Endangered Species Act Rules

BOSTON – A new analysis by Defenders of Wildlife shows that New England could be hard hit if the Trump administration’s new Endangered Spe…

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Lowell National Historical Park has almost 6 miles of canals as part of its legacy as a textile-manufacturing hub in the 1800s. The National Park Service says the site has more than $20 million in deferred maintenance. (NPS)
National Parks Funding Backlog Gets Attention in U.S. House

BOSTON – The U.S. House Natural Resources Committee, meeting Wednesday, is expected to discuss funding to fix the national parks. The …

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Extreme weather has caused an estimated half-trillion dollars in damage in the U.S. in 2017. (WikiImages/Pixabay)
Resolving to Fight Climate Change in 2018

BOSTON -- Catastrophic hurricanes, severe flooding and raging wildfires fueled by drought have been prominent features of an eventful year for the …

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The Dakota Access Pipeline is drawing opposition from tribal, justice and peace activists in New England. (E. Zulaski)
New Englanders Organize Against Dakota Access Pipeline

BOSTON – While the Dakota Access Pipeline is being built thousands of miles away, tribal and social justice activists in New England have been …

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The Cape Cod National Seashore is among the 60,000-plus acres of federally-managed public land in Massachusetts. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
Report: Little Legal Merit to State Control of Public Lands

BOSTON – The armed occupation of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon earlier this year took place thousands of miles from New England…

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The Atlantic puffin is one of many species that are expected to benefit from President Obama's designation of the first-ever marine national monument in the North Atlantic. (Richard Bartz via wikimedia)
New England Scores: First Atlantic Marine National Monument

CAPE COD, Mass. - With the stroke of a pen, President Obama has designated a new national monument off the coast of Cape Cod. It is the first-ever …

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Opponents of Spectra Energy's natural gas pipeline plan are marching more than 40 miles today to protest transporting fracked gas into the Bay State. (350 Mass)
Fracking Opponents in Massachusetts Plan March

BOSTON – Opponents of building new fracking gas pipelines in Massachusetts plan to march more than 40 miles today to call attention to their cau…

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Summer vacation adventures on public lands could change dramatically if the push to turn federal lands over to state control succeeds, and there have been moves to do that in both the U.S. House and Senate. Photo of a national forest near Yellowstone National Park.  Courtesy: U.S. Forest Service.
Public Land Disputes Could Disrupt Vacations

BOSTON – Summer vacation adventures on public lands could change dramatically if the push to turn federal lands over to state control succeeds…

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