PORTLAND, OR— Today fishing and conservation groups in long-running litigation to protect endangered salmon and steelhead in the Columbia and Snake Rivers joined with the State of Oregon, Nez Perce Tribe and United States to ask the U.S. District Court to extend a stay of the litigation by up to one year.
Organizations urge a climate policy framework to protect and prioritize redlined communities
GREAT FALLS, MT — A federal judge late yesterday struck down two U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) resource management plans that failed to address the public health consequences of allowing massive amounts of coal, oil, and gas production from public lands and minerals in the Powder River Basin, including approximately 6 billion tons of low-grade, highly polluting coal over 20 years.
La Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA) dio un modesto paso positivo hacia la protección de comunidades de todo el país, incluyendo latinas, contra los impactos negativos del óxido de etileno, un potente carcinógeno.
St. Louis, MO - In a surprise outcome last week, the Missouri Air Conservation Commission (MACC) failed to advance the new regional haze plan proposed by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), which the MACC oversees. Missouri will miss its new deadline of August 15, 2022, to submit a plan to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), even though the federal agency gave states an additional three years to comply when it amended the Regional Haze Rule in 2017.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, EPA took a small but positive step toward protecting communities across America from the harmful impacts of ethylene oxide, a potent carcinogen, by announcing reinvigorated efforts to notify and consult communities near 23 facilities releasing toxic ethylene oxide emissions.
Yesterday, the Outdoors Alliance for Kids recognized Rep. Katie Porter of California’s 45th district for her leadership in connecting kids to the outdoors.
Late yesterday, reports broke that drastic changes to federal permitting requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) could be included in must-pass legislation Congress will take up this fall.
Community and conservation groups and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management reached an agreement today to suspend new oil and gas leasing across more than 1 million acres of public lands in California’s Central Valley and Central Coast.
On Friday, the Department of the Interior announced a new $192 million available in grants to communities through the National Park Service’s Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership program.