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Victories

Florida Commission Vote Kills Proposed Coal-Fired Power Plant
State takes a major step towards protecting against harmful global warming pollution
Toxic Ghost Fleet Ship Export to UK Stopped
Legal challenge keeps recycling jobs in the U.S.
Appeals Court Upholds Clean Water Law
Mining company proposed to destroy Alaskan lake and eviscerate the Clean Water Act
Federal Judge Throws Out Biological Opinion for Threatened Delta Smelt
Ruling means state and federal water projects may be required to reduce pumping to protect fish from extinction
Decree Forces Major Reduction of Air Pollutants in Colorado and Utah
Government to make Kerr-McGee clean up its gas production facilities
Supreme Court Puts Final Nail in Coffin in Administration Plan to Gut Key Clean Air Safeguard
High Court lets stand ruling that blocked thousands of facilities from increasing pollution
Appeals Court Sides with Salmon
Biological Opinion violates ESA and fails to consider impact of Snake River dams
Supreme Court Rules Against Bush Administration in Warming Case

The high court says that carbon dioxide is a pollutant and that EPA has authority to regulate tailpipe emissions.

Judge Suspends Five Mine Permits

A federal judge in West Virginia has ruled that the practice of dumping the rubble into streams from blown up mountaintops violates the Clean Water Act.

Court Rebukes Bush Administration for Misrepresenting Scientists

To justify an increase in logging on steep slopes in the Northwest, the Forest Service ignored advice from leading scientists including some from the Fish and Wildlife Service.

A Win for Forest Wildlife and the Public

An attempt by the Bush administration to remove wildlife protection and exclude the public from forest-management decisions is rejected.

Klamath Salmon to Get Vital Water

An attempt by irrigators to overturn minimum flows for salmon is rejected.

Roadless Areas in Tongass National Forest Get Logging Reprieve
Forest Service must rewrite land management plan, accept comments
Supreme Court Rules Against Major Power Plant Polluter in New Source Review Case
Unanimous decision overturns lower court ruling
Court Ruling Protects Salmon and Clean Water from Harmful Logging
Court finds Bush administration misrepresented views of key scientists