HONOLULU, Hawaii, May 29, 2025 (ENS) – Sheltering island habitats, coral reefs, and open ocean, the seven national wildlife refuges of the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument stretch across […]
WASHINGTON, DC, July 1, 2024 (ENS) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision today in favor of Corner Post, Inc., a truckstop in rural North Dakota, and other rulings issued last week, alter the statute of limitations and other rules for challenging agency actions, threatening the stability of the laws that provide the United States with protections from the unchecked power of corporations such as polluting industries. […]
DENVER, Colorado, February 23, 2024 (ENS) – Colorado’s Democratic state legislators rolled out an forceful group of three bills aimed at eliminating ozone pollution on the state’s Front Range, some […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 26, 2024 (ENS) – Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced a temporary pause on pending decisions regarding exports of liquefied natural gas, LNG, to countries that do not have free trade agreements with the United States. […]
DENVER, Colorado, December 17, 2023 (ENS) – U.S. District Court Judge Regina Rodriguez has denied a request by the Colorado cattle industry to stop imminent wolf reintroductions into the state. Wolves are being reintroduced into Colorado after being eliminated more than 75 years ago… […]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 6, 2023 (ENS) – On his Inauguration Day, January 20, 2021, one of the first things Joe Biden did as President was to deliver a Proclamation lifting his predecessor’s 2019 declaration of an emergency at the U.S. southern border with Mexico, used to justify building a border wall. […]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 9, 2023 (ENS) – In a new climate change guidance, the Biden Administration asks federal agencies to account for greenhouse gas emissions as they review proposals for clean energy and other infrastructure projects under the National Environmental Policy Act, commonly called NEPA. […]
HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 8, 2022 (ENS) – The underground Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility in the hills above the Pearl Harbor Naval Station on Oahu will be de-fueled and permanently closed, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced Monday. The facility holds more than 100 million gallons of fuel in support of U.S. military operations in the Pacific, […]
OAKLAND, California, February 10, 2022 (ENS) – Today, a federal judge in California overturned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s November 2020 decision to delist wolves from the Endangered Species […]
WASHINGTON, DC, November 22, 2021 (ENS) – Just a month after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a new plan to cope with the wide spread of PFAS, a group of toxic chemicals used to make products like nonstick cookware and stain-resistant carpeting, warnings are emerging that industrial facilities across the country are unwittingly burning a firefighting foam containing PFAS chemicals. […]
HONOLULU, Hawaii, November 6, 2021 (ENS) – The County of Maui has lost another court ruling in its campaign to avoid getting a Clean Water Act permit for injection wells […]
BOZEMAN, Montana, October 31, 2021 (ENS) – In a victory for cleaner water in Montana, a state district court judge has ordered the Montana Department of Environmental Quality, DEQ, to […]
WASHINGTON, DC, August 31, 2021 (ENS) – A federal judge in Arizona Monday overturned the Trump-era Navigable Waters Protection Rule, more commonly known as the Dirty Water Rule, in a […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, August 19, 2021 (ENS) – The Alaska Federal District Court Wednesday vacated the approval of a large oil and gas project known as the Willow Master Development Plan […]
CAHOKIA HEIGHTS, Illinois, July 21, 2021 (ENS) – The community group Centreville Citizens for Change and 24 individual residents are suing Commonfields of Cahokia Public Water District and the City […]
WASHINGTON, DC, July 19, 2021 (ENS) – Across the entire 16.7 million acres of the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska, full Roadless Rule protections are being restored and there will be an end to large-scale old-growth timber sales… […]
BANGOR, Maine, June 5, 2020 (ENS) – Today, President Donald Trump traveled to Bangor, Maine to issue a proclamation that opens up the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument to commercial fishing, threatening the destruction of this sensitive, biologically important marine reserve. It’s the latest in a long list of Trump’s environmental attacks launched under cover of national and international crises. […]
GREAT FALLS, Montana, May 5, 2020 (ENS) – Montana landowners, farmers, and conservation groups have won a victory in their effort to protect local groundwater and the climate. A federal judge has ruled that the Bureau of Land Management, BLM, failed to consider risks to Montana’s environment and water supply before issuing 287 oil and gas leases in the December 2017 and March 2018 lease sales. […]
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