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Court sides with Idaho property owners over EPA

March 22, 2012

The Supreme Court handed a decisive loss to U.S. EPA today when it ruled unanimously that property owners facing potential enforcement actions under the Clean Water Act can seek judicial review before being forced to comply.

The justices held that Mike and Chantell Sackett of Priest Lake...

BLM fines too low to deter violators, says director

March 21, 2012

The Obama administration lacks the authority to deter oil and gas operators from committing major drilling violations on public lands, a top Interior Department official said this morning.

Bureau of Land Management Director Bob Abbey said he hopes Congress will at least consider raising...

Climate study warns of changes to Shoshone Forest and YNP

March 19, 2012

Summer visitors to the Shoshone National Forest and Yellowstone National Park could benefit from a warming climate, though fires would probably increase, water would run short by season’s end, and some species could vanish from the landscape.

Those are predictions of a new study released...

Testimony touts American Indian water rights settlements, but experts frustrated with level of funding

March 16, 2012

Settling American Indian water rights claims outside of court is less costly, less time-consuming and more beneficial to tribes overall, administration officials, tribal representatives and lawyers said yesterday.

"Settlements are the way to go," Interior Department Deputy Secretary David...

Enviros defend Interior on mining withdrawals in face of industry lawsuits

March 15, 2012

Environmental groups and Arizona's Havasupai Tribe moved this week to intervene in an industry lawsuit against the Interior Department's ban on new mining claims near Grand Canyon National Park.

Attorneys for Earthjustice and the Western Mining Action Project filed the motion on behalf of...

Montana vows to pursue riverbed rent case against PPL Montana

March 11, 2012

A spokesman for power-generator PPL Montana said Thursday it’s time for the state to admit defeat in its lengthy effort to collect rent from PPL for its hydropower dams, and put an end to the eight-year-old legal case.

“It is inconceivable to me that anyone could declare a victory for the...

New national forest rule to focus on restoration of damaged ecosystems

March 10, 2012

Obama administration officials are emphasizing restoration of degraded ecosystems as they roll out a final new rule for managing the nation's 193 million acres of forests and grasslands.

Thirty years in the making, the rule to be officially issued this month will direct regional foresters...

FWS, NOAA spending budgets sharply questioned by Republicans

March 8, 2012

House Republicans blasted Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe at a subcommittee hearing yesterday for proposing to increase land acquisition funding in the agency's fiscal 2013 budget.

"You are asking for giant leaps and increases in spending at a time when we have to borrow from...

Utah Supreme Court weighs coal mine expansion near national park

March 7, 2012

Utah regulators failed to properly account for the environmental impacts of a strip mine the state approved to operate near Bryce Canyon National Park, environmental groups said in arguments yesterday before the Utah Supreme Court.

The Sierra Club led the groups opposing the new Alton...

Company rerouting tainted creek near leaking uranium mine

March 7, 2012

The owners of a leaking uranium mine west of Denver have begun a bold project to reduce contamination of a creek that flows into a metro drinking-water reservoir: physically rerouting the creek so that it no longer flows over toxic waste.

Nobody wants Cotter Corp.'s re-routing of Ralston...

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