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Judge strikes down U.S. energy leasing rules in sage grouse habitat

(Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) Two Sage-Grouse fight for dominance, while strutting on a lek in the Parker Mountain area, near Loa, Utah, Friday, April 22, 2016. Judge Brian Morris said in a late Friday, May 22, 2020 ruling the Trump administration failed to protect habitat for a declining bird species when it issued energy leases on hundreds of square miles of public lands in Wyoming and Montana.