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My, What Big Protections You Have Judge puts Great Lakes wolves back on endangered-species list		30 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 10:54 AM on 30 Sep 2008 The Bush administration misread the law when it removed endangered-species protections from a population of some 4,000 gray wolves in the Great Lakes region, a federal judge ruled Monday. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman reinstated the wolves onto the endangered-species list, agreeing with green groups that Great Lakes wolves are not a "distinct population segme ...
Topics: endangered species, litigation, Michigan, Minnesota, news, wildlife, Wisconsin (all these topics)

What We Talk About When We Talk About Runoff Appeals court rules EPA must protect waterways from construction pollution		19 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 6:06 AM on 19 Sep 2008 The U.S. EPA is required by the Clean Water Act to protect the nation's waterways and drinking water from construction-industry pollution, and the agency must develop regulations to address construction-site runoff by December 2009, a federal appeals court ruled [PDF] Thursday. Sediment from construction sites, usually washed into rivers and ot ...
Topics: litigation, news, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Leave Yellowstone Unturned Judge tosses federal plan to allow more snowmobiles into Yellowstone		15 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 1:23 PM on 15 Sep 2008 A National Park Service plan to allow 540 snowmobiles a day into Yellowstone National Park has been tossed out by a federal judge. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled Monday that allowing that many 'mobiles would increase air and noise pollution and be disturbing to wildlife -- conclusions drawn, he noted, by NPS's own data. Increasing the allowed number of snowm ...
Topics: air pollution, litigation, National Park Service, national parks, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Life's a Beach and Then It's Closed EPA to update health-hazard reporting standards for U.S. beaches		11 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 4:48 AM on 11 Sep 2008 The U.S. EPA has agreed to update its 22-year-old criteria for reporting beach-related health hazards to the public thanks to a new settlement with the Natural Resources Defense Council. Right now, the EPA's criteria for assessing ocean-water and beach health are based on the likelihood of beachgoers contracting gastrointestinal illnesses, but apparently that's j ...
Topics: litigation, news, politics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Now They've Gone and Gordon It Greenpeace protesters acquitted in coal-activism case		10 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 1:10 PM on 10 Sep 2008 In a decision that anti-coal activists say is a gamechanger, six Greenpeace protesters have been acquitted of nearly $53,000 in criminal-damage charges for painting "Gordon" on a British coal plant. The activists climbed a 650-foot coal-plant chimney last year with the intent to paint "Gordon bin it" in huge letters, aiming to pressure Prime Minister Gordon B ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, England, Gordon Brown, grassroots activism, Greenpeace, James Hansen, litigation, news, progress (all these topics)

Industry Try Again Industry groups sue Interior over polar bear		29 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 1:13 PM on 29 Aug 2008 The U.S. Interior Department has been sued yet again over polar bears, this time by five industry groups that say the agency's regulations for protecting bears unfairly single out Alaska businesses' contribution to climate change. When the polar bear was declared a threatened species because of climate change, Interior went to great lengths to note that the ruling should not be used to block greenho ...
Topics: Alaska, business, climate, Department of Interior, greenhouse-gas emissions, litigation, news, polar bears (all these topics)

These Refiners Could Be Finer States sue EPA over greenhouse-gas emissions from refineries		26 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 1:35 PM on 26 Aug 2008 Twelve states, the city of New York, and the District of Columbia are suing the U.S. EPA for not regulating greenhouse-gas emissions from oil refineries. The suit accuses the agency of violating the Clean Air Act by refusing to issue standards for controlling carbon dioxide emissions from new or updated refinery equipment. In essence, the suit is an attempt to force the ...
Topics: climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, litigation, news, oil, US EPA (all these topics)

Pickled Pikas Climate change endangers American pika, say groups		20 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 12:50 PM on 20 Aug 2008 The American pika should be listed as an endangered species because climate change could cause its extinction, say Earthjustice and the Center for Biological Diversity in a lawsuit filed Tuesday against California and the federal government. The pika, a rabbit cousin characterized by inordinate cuteness and a squeaky call, is "the polar bear of the Lower 48," says Greg Loarie of Earthjust ...
Topics: California, climate, climate change impacts, endangered species, litigation, news, wildlife (all these topics)

No way to bee EPA knuckleheads hide info on pesticide implicated in colony collapse disorder	Tom Philpott	20 Aug 2008	Gristmill
So there's this insecticide called clothianidin that seems likely to be implicated in colony collapse disorder. By the EPA's own reckoning [PDF], clothianidin 'has the potential for toxic chronic exposure to honeybees, as well as other nontarget pollinators, through the translocation of clothianidin residues in nectar and pollen.' Over in Germany, the introduction of clothianidin coincided with a sudden bee die-off, so German authorities recently banned it. They reckon ...
Topics: animal welfare, litigation, NRDC, shenanigans, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Heart Monitor Court tosses federal rule that limited air-pollution monitoring		19 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 2:01 PM on 19 Aug 2008 States can enact tougher-than-federal monitoring requirements for air pollution from factories and power plants, after a federal appeals court tossed out a U.S. EPA rule keeping them from doing so. Primary plaintiff Sierra Club celebrated the victory; defendants were the U.S. EPA and the American Petroleum Institute, which should seem like an odd pair, but somehow just doesn't surprise ...
Topics: air pollution, litigation, news, Sierra Club, US EPA (all these topics)

Go With the Low Greens and Navy reach compromise over low-frequency sonar		13 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 3:16 PM on 13 Aug 2008 The U.S. Navy and environmental groups have reached a compromise in a long-running dispute over the Navy's use of low-frequency sonar, which greens say can befuddle whales and sometimes cause them to beach and die. The Navy on Tuesday agreed to restrict use of low-frequency active sonar in areas known to be whale breeding grounds or key habitat. "We don't have to choose between nation ...
Topics: Department of Defense, litigation, news, oceans (all these topics)

One More for the Road Roadless rule shot down, again		13 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 8:09 AM on 13 Aug 2008 The Clinton-era "roadless rule" has been declared invalid by U.S. District Judge Clarence Brimmer. The rule, which prohibits development on 58.5 million acres of national forest, has had a long and rocky past. Brimmer first put the kibosh on it in 2003, and while an appeal was pending, the Bush administration switched it out for an alternative that required states to petition the feds for forest prot ...
Topics: litigation, national forests, news, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Like there are so many other reasons to visit the barren tundra? Alaska claims protecting wildlife would hurt tourism	Miles Grant	11 Aug 2008	Gristmill
Somehow this one went under my radar last week, but I couldn't let it slip by: WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The state of Alaska has sued the U.S. government, arguing that listing polar bears as a threatened species will hurt Alaskan oil and gas exploration, fisheries and tourism.The lawsuit, filed on Monday in federal court in Washington, seeks the withdrawal of a May 14 decision to list the big Arctic bears as threatened under the Endangered Species Act because climate ch ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, litigation, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Run-Aground Sue States, green groups to sue EPA for not regulating plane or ship emissions		31 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 7:50 AM on 31 Jul 2008 Two separate coalitions of states, environmental groups, and state and local pollution regulators announced Thursday their respective intents to sue the U.S. EPA over its failure to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from ships and planes; the group of states and pollution regulators is also suing over emissions from agricultural and construction equipment. The states, agen ...
Topics: climate, litigation, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Blast From the Mast Groups sue Navy over underwater explosions		30 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 1:29 PM on 30 Jul 2008 Environmental groups are up in arms about training exercises conducted by the U.S. Navy -- not sonar this time, but underwater explosives. The Wild Fish Conservancy and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility have filed a federal lawsuit against the Navy, saying its practice of training divers to explode dummy mines in Washington State's Puget Sound poses an unacceptable hazard to salmon, o ...
Topics: Department of Defense, litigation, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, oceans, Washington, wildlife (all these topics)

The Grass Is Half Empty EPA and Florida sucking at Everglades cleanup, says judge		29 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 4:57 PM on 29 Jul 2008 Florida and the U.S. EPA have been skewered by a federal judge for their Everglades cleanup efforts (or rather, lack thereof). In 2003, Florida pushed back a deadline for reducing phosphorus pollution in the River of Grass from 2006 to 2016. By doing so, the state "violated its fundamental commitment and promise to protect the Everglades," U.S. District Judge Alan Gold ru ...
Topics: Florida, habitat protection, litigation, national parks, news, regulation, US EPA, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Invade in the Shade Trees win in California solar panels vs. redwoods dispute		23 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 10:40 AM on 23 Jul 2008 Trees have emerged victorious in a California dispute that pitted redwoods against solar panels. Six months ago, Silicon Valley residents Richard Treanor and Carolynn Bissett were criminally convicted because their redwoods shaded the 10-kilowatt solar system on neighbor Mark Vargas' roof. Ultimately, Treanor and Bissett were forced to trim their trees and paid $37,000 in legal fees. T ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, energy, energy at home, green living, insanity, litigation, news, renewable energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Rough to the Gills Judge says Calif. salmon in trouble but offers no short-term solution		21 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 11:04 AM on 21 Jul 2008 The dams and aqueducts that shuttle water from California's Sacramento River Delta to the rest of the state will "appreciably increase jeopardy" to salmon and steelhead in the coming months, U.S. District Judge Oliver Wanger said Friday. But while Wanger agreed with environmentalists that "the three salmonid species are not viable and are all in jeopardy of ex ...
Topics: agriculture, California, litigation, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, water conflicts (all these topics)

The Judge Who Cried Wolf Endangered-species protections reinstated for gray wolves		18 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 6:01 PM on 18 Jul 2008 A federal judge has ruled that wolves should be returned to the endangered-species list for now, derailing plans for wolf hunts in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. The 2,000 or so gray wolves that inhabit the three states were removed from the endangered list in March; environmentalists sued to get them back on, saying populations were not yet stable. According to the Natural Resource ...
Topics: endangered species, Idaho, litigation, Montana, news, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

Phosphorus For Us Sick of algae-polluted water, Florida groups sue EPA		18 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 1:55 PM on 18 Jul 2008 A flock of Florida green groups has sued the U.S. EPA, seeking state and national water-pollution standards for fertilizer runoff from factory farms. Nitrogen and phosphorus flow from agricultural operations into many Florida waterways (among other places), triggering algae blooms which suck oxygen from the water and kill off marine life. Exposure to the algae, which contaminates many drinkin ...
Topics: agriculture, Florida, litigation, news, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Hitting the Wall R.I. court reverses ruling, says paint companies not responsible for lead cleanup		01 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 12:41 PM on 01 Jul 2008 Three paint companies should not have to clean up lead contamination in Rhode Island homes, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The decision reverses a landmark 2006 ruling in which the state was victorious in alleging that Sherwin-Williams Co., NL Industries Inc., and Millennium Holdings LLC created a public nuisance by manufacturing and selling lead-based pain ...
Topics: green living, litigation, news, Rhode Island, toxics (all these topics)

A Coal New World Landmark ruling halts Georgia coal plant on basis of CO2 emissions		30 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 2:38 PM on 30 Jun 2008 A Georgia coal plant cannot go forward until it receives an air-pollution permit limiting its carbon-dioxide emissions, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore ruled Monday. The ruling marks the first time a judge has used the Supreme Court's classification of CO2 as a pollutant to regulate emissions from an industrial source. Moore's decision overturns a p ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, coal, energy, Georgia, greenhouse-gas emissions, litigation, news, progress (all these topics)

Dally Affirmation Appeals court won't force EPA to speed up CO2 decision		27 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 7:08 AM on 27 Jun 2008 A federal appeals court has decided not to force the Bush administration to speed up its decision on whether carbon dioxide emissions endanger public health or welfare. The administration's decision on CO2 is a necessary step in the process of regulating U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions from vehicles and industrial sources. Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that carbon dioxide is a pollu ...
Topics: climate, litigation, news, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics)

The Suits Are Picking on the Bill Auto industry loses suit to sink California vehicle emissions standards		26 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 9:53 AM on 26 Jun 2008 A federal judge has struck down the auto industry's attempt to gut California's greenhouse-gas emissions standards for vehicles. California's law, which would cut vehicle emissions by some 30 percent by 2016, has been stalled due to the U.S. EPA's denial of a waiver the state needs to implement it. However, the industry lawsuit sought to stop the emissions-r ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, California, litigation, news (all these topics)

Pathetic Justice Supreme Court slashes Exxon's punitive damages for Valdez oil spill		25 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 10:37 AM on 25 Jun 2008 ExxonMobil is off the hook for billions in punitive damages related to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. In 1994, the oil giant was ordered to pay $5 billion in punitive damages. In 2006, that amount was cut to $2.5 billion. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court slashed the amount once again, to $507.5 million. By a 5-3 vote (Exxon stockholder Samuel Alito sat out), the court reasoned ...
Topics: Alaska, Big Oil, energy, insanity, litigation, news, oil, politics (all these topics)

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