sent to Earth First! Newswire On Monday, Judge Miranda Du issued her decision in the consolidated Thacker Pass court cases including Case No. 3:21-cv-00080-MMD-CLB, the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony and Burns Paiute Tribe lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management. Judge Du ruled […]
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Army Corps of Engineers Schedule Massive Dredging Project Despite Public Health, Environmental Objections
from Center for Biological Diversity SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico— The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Puerto Rico Ports Authority announced an agreement today to proceed with dredging in San Juan Bay, Puerto Rico. The project will deepen and widen shipping channels to allow massive […]
Continue readingInjunction Denied in Atlanta Forest
by Onion / Earth First! Newswire Despite construction workers consistently violating a stop worker order by DeKalb County, a shady judge denied an injunction to halt further environmental destruction in the Atlanta Forest. The destruction is being committed in order to build […]
Continue readingGroup Sues to Halt Logging Near 2,000-Year-Old Redwood on Russian River
from San Francisco Chronicle A group of tree lovers in Sonoma County has filed a lawsuit to block logging near a 2,000-year-old redwood tree on the banks of the Russian River. In late November, Cal Fire approved a timber harvest plan that […]
Continue readingBlue Mountains Biodiversity Project’s Press Release on Walton Lake Timber Sale
sent to Earth First! Newswire / by Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project A Ninth Circuit Court panel has granted Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project’s motion for a stay, leaving in place the injunction that prevents the Forest Service from logging the mature and old […]
Continue readingLawsuit Challenges Army Corps Decision Imperiling Wetlands Near Okefenokee Swamp
from Center for Biological Diversity On behalf of four conservation groups, the Southern Environmental Law Center today challenged, in federal court, a decision by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to unlawfully reinstate jurisdictional determinations that removed Clean Water Act protections from […]
Continue readingThe Inflation Reduction Act is Forcing Fossil Fuel Expansion Offshore and on Public Lands
from Center for Biological Diversity Even as the climate emergency brings devastating fires, floods, and super-hurricanes, Big Oil’s allies in Congress have made matters worse by passing the Inflation Reduction Act, which holds renewable energy hostage to continued fossil fuel extraction on […]
Continue readingShould the Ocean Have Legal Rights?
Human activities have put the ocean in serious trouble. We need a fundamentally different approach from most of today’s ocean-related decision-making, which is typically “anthropocentric in nature.” Read more in this article from The Revelator.
Continue readingOld Forests Are Worth More Standing
[EF! Newswire Editor’s Note: By using the link below, you can send a personalized letter to some bureaucrats about protecting mature forests and send a few tweets around about it… Then you should go out and build a treesit in every 80+ […]
Continue readingAlabama Prisoners File NEPA Lawsuit Against New Prison Construction
From Sabal Trail Resistance Back in 2017, we at #SabalTrailResistance engaged in a fight against pipeline construction across Alabama, Georgia and Florida, we supported lawsuits and organized blockades. Today a NEPA lawsuit was filed by a group of Alabama prisoners against the new […]
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