When congress was passing its latest round of budgeting, representatives from Wyoming were trying (and failing) to slip in language that would’ve made it illegal for environmental groups to sue the state over its plan to allow anyone to shoot the state’s roughly 243 wolves that live outside of Yellowstone National Park and the Wind River Indian Reservation. The effort failed because the Obama White House called it a deal breaker. Meanwhile there are still pending GOP-sponsored provisions that would exempt oil and utility companies from the Clean Air Act. Leaving the EPA to regulate cars…and probably the methane wolves create? We’re not sure.

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