EPA may have dealt final ‘nail in the coffin’ to Alaska’s Pebble Mine
The Environmental Protection Agency has used a provision of the Clean Water Act to block the project, Pebble Mine, and similar operations from the Bristol …
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Biden Administration Bans Mining in Boundary Waters Wilderness
First, the Tongass, now the Boundary Waters. The Biden administration has imposed a 20-year ban on new mineral development across 225,000 acres of national forest …
Biden Administration Restores Protections for Alaska’s Tongass National Forest
Yesterday the Biden administration restored protections for more than half of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, safeguarding one of the world’s largest intact temperate rainforests from …
Fishermen Fend Off Mining Proposal In The Bahamas
In a June 2022 letter to the prime minister, several conservation groups, including the Bahamas Sportfishing Conservation Association, Environmental Defense Fund, and others, detailed their …
Apache trout may make it off endangered list
The Apache trout is doing so well that it should be removed from the Endangered Species List, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. …
ODFW votes to end N. Umpqua summer steelhead hatchery release
Somewhere Frank Moore is smiling. The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission has decided not to release hatchery summer steelhead smolts into the North Umpqua River …
Plugging the Donut Hole: Mining co. drops rights to watershed
Some good news for the Skagit. The British Columbia government has announced the surrender of mining rights at the headwaters of the Skagit River, after …
Biden Administration Moves To Block Mining Near Boundary Waters
Score one for the good guys. The Biden administration on Wednesday announced that it would complete a major environmental analysis of mining near Minnesota’s Boundary …
Court tosses Trump water pollution rule
A federal judge has thrown out a major Trump administration rule that scaled back federal protections for streams, marshes and wetlands across the United States, …
Keystone XL Pipeline Is Officially Dead
It’s hard to underscore how huge a victory this is for activists and particularly Indigenous organizers that have been out in front to stop Keystone …