"Southwest Alaska Tribes Sue To Stop Donlin Gold Project"
"Three Alaska tribes are suing the federal government to halt the Donlin Gold project."
Source: Anchorage Daily News, 04/07/2023
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"Mountain Valley Pipeline's West Virginia Water Permit Tossed By Court"
"A federal appeals court on Monday vacated a water permit needed by developers to restart construction on the Mountain Valley pipeline in West Virginia, marking the latest setback for the $6.2 billion project."
Source: Reuters, 04/04/2023
"Judge Halts Biden Administration Waters Rule in Texas, Idaho"
"A federal court judge in Texas issued a preliminary injunction against the Biden administration’s waters of the US, or WOTUS, rule late Sunday. The injunction applies only to Texas and Idaho. The 2023 WOTUS rule takes effect Monday in the rest of the country and determines which waters and wetlands receive federal protection under the Clean Water Act."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 03/21/2023
"House GOP Votes To Overturn Biden Rule On Water Protections"
"The House on Thursday voted to overturn the Biden administration’s protections for thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways, advancing long-held Republican arguments that the regulations are an environmental overreach and burden to business."
Source: AP, 03/10/2023
"Waters Lawsuits Will Roll on Even as High Court Weighs in"
"At least five federal lawsuits challenging the EPA’s new waters of the US rule are expected to continue even if the US Supreme Court undermines the basis for the rule in an opinion coming this term."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 03/01/2023
"Two Dozen Republican-Led States Sue EPA Over Water Protection Rule"
"A group of 24 Republican-led states is suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to try to knock down a rule governing which waters get federal protections."
Source: The Hill, 02/17/2023
Earth Has Lost 1/5 Of Wetlands Since 1700; Most Could Still Be Saved
"Like so many of the planet's natural habitats, wetlands have been systematically destroyed over the past 300 years. Bogs, fens, marshes and swamps have disappeared from maps and memory, having been drained, dug up and built on. Peatlands, a particular type of wetland, store at least twice the carbon of all the world's forests."
Source: The Conversation, 02/14/2023
"Growing Dust from Desert Wind Storms Has Curbed Warming, Study Finds"
"The amount of dust generated by desert windstorms has grown markedly since the mid-19th century, helping to offset the global rise in temperature, new research shows."
Source: YaleE360, 01/24/2023
"Native American Tribe In Va. Reclaims Big Parcel Of Its Homeland"
"For centuries, a Native American tribe considered a large swath of land with cliffs jutting out along the Rappahannock River in Virginia’s Northern Neck as their ancestral heart and homelands."
Source: Washington Post, 01/23/2023
"‘It’s Time To Start Suing’: States Tee Up Next WOTUS War"
"Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Wednesday he filed a challenge against the new EPA and Army Corps of Engineers definition of which waterways and wetlands are subject to federal permitting requirements."
Source: E&E News, 01/19/2023
