Getting your player ready...
A federal judge says he’ll decide quickly whether the government erred in not giving protection to a wildflower that grows only in oil shale outcroppings in northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado.
U.S. District Judge Walker D. Miller told attorneys he’ll take weeks, not months, to consider arguments from environmental groups about whether the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service should have placed the Graham’s penstemon on the endangered-species list.
