Construction of a pipeline through delicate wetlands in Louisiana that was halted last month over the possibility of irreversible harm to the environment can resume, a divided Fifth Circuit panel ruled Thursday.
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The federal judge who granted environmentalists’ injunction to stop a pipeline from crossing the Atchafalaya Basin concluded that public interest in wetlands outweighs a company’s potential financial setbacks.
Read moreThe International Court of Justice fined Nicaragua more than $378,000 on Friday for its intrusion into Costa Rican territory involving ecologically sensitive, disputed wetlands.
Read moreAn wnvironmental group claims in court that federal regulators unlawfully approved a new, $3.8 billion interstate that will needlessly destroy hundreds of acres of pristine freshwater wetlands near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Read moreOhio filed a lawsuit Friday against the developer of the interstate Rover Pipeline, claiming it has discharged millions of gallons of drilling fluids into wetlands during the pipeline’s construction after numerous warnings and citations from regulators.
Read moreLouisiana groups say they are fed up with environmental destruction wreaked by the oil industry and that the very least the state should allow a third-party assessment of what’s at stake before a proposed pipeline is allowed to be built.
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Louisiana’s expected share of offshore oil and gas royalties, earmarked for urgently needed coastal restoration projects, has been cut in half, and President Trump wants to kill it altogether, a state official said Wednesday.
Read moreAs nations across the world scramble to identify and implement strategies for stifling climate change, a new study finds improved land stewardship presents an undervalued avenue for both storing and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Read moreThe city of West Palm Beach, Florida, claims in court that four different federal agencies green-lighted a roadway project that will imperil protected wetlands and the endangered species that live within them.
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Worried that federal regulators will weaken federal wetland protections, a nonprofit brought a federal complaint to expose whether outside groups influenced an executive order targeting the Clean Water Rule.
Read moreLouisiana celebrated completion of the largest coastal-restoration project it has ever undertaken to repair coastal lands this week with a ribbon-cutting attended by Gov. John Bel Edwards.
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Four Florida-based environmental groups sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hoping to stop a large expansion of phosphate mining in the state.
Read moreIran’s Musa Bay on the northern end of the Persian Gulf is pictured in this image from the Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite, captured last month.
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