A federal judge has overturned the land exchange intended to enable the state to build a controversial road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, possibly halting plans for construction to start in the coming weeks. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason ruled Tuesday that the Department of the Interior violated three laws when it approved […]
The Center for Biological Diversity filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Oregon alleging the grazing would harm imperiled species across the West.
The Trump administration is proposing to loosen the regulation of offshore Arctic oil drilling by revoking several safety regulations put in place during the Obama administration. The U.S. Department of the Interior announced on Monday that it will propose a new rule to change what it called “a burdensome regulatory framework” imposed a decade ago […]
A public hearing over whether the New Mexico Environment Department should issue an air quality permit for the controversial Project Jupiter data center is being rescheduled to September, according to newly filed documents.
Two weeks before construction could begin on a controversial road that would cut through Izembek National Wildlife Refuge wetlands, three Western Alaska tribal governments and several environmental groups have filed new lawsuits seeking to block the project. Both complaints, filed in U.S. District Court in Anchorage, are seeking to overturn a key permit issued earlier […]
