Feds Accuse Native American of Polluting Wetlands
The United States brought a federal complaint Monday against a Native American who it says has ignored a demand to clean up years of construction waste dumped into Long Island wetlands.
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Protesters Arrested While Trying to Block Louisiana Pipeline
Twenty protesters, two of whom were arrested, stopped construction of the Bayou Bridge pipeline through a Louisiana coastal zone Thursday while demonstrating against continued construction despite a state judge remanding the permit.
Read moreEPA Helps Louisiana Restore Cypress-Tupelo Swamp
The Environmental Protection Agency’s Gulf of Mexico program has awarded $285,744 to help restore swamp and forest habitat near New Orleans.
Read moreBayou Bridge Pipeline Construction Continues in Defiance of Judge
Construction of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline through sensitive coastal lands continued Monday despite a state judge’s ruling that the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources illegally issued a permit for it.
Read moreFifth Circuit Allows Construction of Pipeline in Wetlands
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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Judge Tells Why She Stopped Pipeline Through Atchafalaya Swamp
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 moreNicaragua Fined by UN’s Top Court in Dispute With Costa Rica
The 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 moreEnvironmentalists Ask Court to Block New Highway in South Carolina
An 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 Accuses Pipeline Developer of Polluting Wetlands
Ohio 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 moreResistance Builds to New Louisiana Oil Pipeline
Louisiana 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 Gulf Coast Restoration Funding on the Brink
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 moreBetter Land Use Vital to Beating Climate Change
As 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 moreWest Palm Beach Says Feds Approved Road Project That Imperils Protected Wetlands
The 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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Threat of Wetland Deregulation Inspires Records Suit
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.
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Judge Tosses Claims Over Homeless Camp Removal
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the city of Eureka, California, did not violate the constitutional rights of longtime inhabitants of a homeless camp in the Palco Marsh, a city-owned wetland area and the site of a multimillion-dollar trail project.
Read moreCelebration as First Coastal-Restoration Project Is Completed
Louisiana 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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Greens Sue Over Phosphate Mine Expansion
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 moreView From Space: Musa Bay, Iran
Iran’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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