PENDLETON, Oregon, September 2, 2023 (ENS) – A Trump-era change in U.S. Forest Service regulations that permitted the logging of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest violates three separate laws, […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 16, 2023 (ENS) – Warning that the U.S. government’s environmental review fails to account for the full climate impact of oil development in Alaska, five of America’s largest conservation groups have filed a lawsuit to stop ConocoPhillips’ Willow oil project in the National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska, which the Biden Administration approved Monday. […]
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, January 24, 2022 (ENS) – Black residents of Louisiana’s St. John the Baptist Parish have been subjected to the highest cancer risk from air pollution in the nation […]
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 […]
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 […]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 20, 2020 (ENS) – The U.S. Supreme Court Monday agreed to rule on whether the Trump administration must stop building sections of the southern border wall with Mexico. The administration is appealing a lower court decision that it illegally diverted money appropriated by Congress for military salaries and pensions to the wall project. […]
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