Environmental Politics

"Protesters argue that eminent domain laws may not even apply as the pipeline will serve Mexicans, not Americans".

"The Federal Bureau of Investigation violated its own guidelines in 2013 when it investigated environmental advocates who opposed the Keystone XL pipeline, the F.B.I. acknowledged on Tuesday."

"Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked consideration of giving President Obama power to accelerate a broad trade accord with Asia, a rebuke that the president helped bring on himself." Environmental groups have opposed the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement.

"This is a story about how to get things done in Tallahassee. Usually, it takes cash. Sometimes, it also takes a helicopter."

"Spread over 6,500 miles of sparse scrub and alkaline soil, Millard County is one of Utah's poorest. But for five years, the cash-strapped county so remote it was the site of a Japanese American internment camp in World War II still found $1,000 to send to the American Lands Council."

"The Obama administration gave conditional approval on Monday for Shell Gulf of Mexico, Inc. to start drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic Ocean this summer."

"Recently proposed federal rules on mining royalties, intended to close loopholes that subsidize exports of coal mined from public lands, may instead end up giving away the coal to the industry for free, according to an environmentalist think tank."

Congressional Republicans are attacking the Obama administration's environmental policies by attacking the science on which they are based.

"The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration has been without a permanent boss for 214 days."

"The University of Western Australia has handed back $4m in federal government funding to host a “consensus centre” with climate contrarian Bjørn Lomborg, saying that lack of support among its academics made the centre untenable."