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Public statement from the Department of Interior & Department of the Army, with letter from the Department of the Army to Dakota Access, LLP and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

Corp says consulting with Standing Rock Sioux Tribe pivotal before final decision

Letter to President Obama, signed by 34 scientists, requesting the permanent withdrawal of the U.S. Arctic Ocean from further oil and gas development.

Process obscures facts, fails to invite meaningful public participation

In the Matter of Coyote Island Terminal; Port of Morrow

Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One

Mālama Mākua, represented by Earthjustice, is taking the U.S. Army back to court for violating cultural access rights to sacred sites at Mākua Military Reservation on Oʻahu. The reservation contains 100 sites eligible for listing on the national historic register, including Hawaiian temples, shrines, petroglyphs and other historical and cultural sites.

Earthjustice & Vote Solar filed an appeal challenging the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada (PUCN)’s unlawful decision to end a successful program that empowered Nevadans to go solar.

Re: Standing Rock Sioux Tribe – Dakota Access pipeline. From: Dave Archambault, II, Chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

"Accufacts Inc. was asked to perform a detailed pipeline technical review of the above EA for the DAPL proposal, including the USACE’s mitigated finding of no significant impact. I have concluded that the EA is seriously deficient and cannot support the finding of no significant impact, even with the proposed mitigations."

the Court ORDERS as follows:
1. Defendant Fish & Wildlife Service’s withdrawal of its proposal to list the
Graham’s beardtongue and White River beardtongue as threatened, 79 Fed.
Reg. 46042, is VACATED;

Letter: Health, Environment & Children’s Groups Call for National Strategy to End Lead Poisoning and Lead Exposure

Report of independent auditors and financial statements

Four conservation groups have filed suit in U.S. District Court challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's unexpected decision in April 2016 to deny Endangered Species Act protection to Pacific fishers.

Why the removal of the four Snake River dams is a feasible and necessary action to save wild salmon. (October 2016)

In the matter of the Applicant Ohio Edison Company , the Cleveland Eelectric Illuminating Company, and the Toledo Edison Company for authority to provide for a standard service offer persuant to R.C. 4928.143 in the form of an Electric Security Plan. On rehearing, the Commission finds that the Companies' Proposal to modify Rider RRS should not be adopted and that the Staff's alternative proposal to establish Rider DMR should be adopted. Further, the Commission makes additional modifications to the Stipulations approved by the Commission to ensure that the Stipulations, as a package, benefit ratepayers and the public interest and that the Stipulatioiis violate no important regulatory principles or practices.  

Fairbanks North Star Borough (the Borough) has the worst episodic fine particulate matter (PM-2.5) pollution in the nation—“worse than Los Angeles, Milwaukee and Detroit combined,” a local newspaper put it. See Exhibit 1 (Amanda Bohman, Air pollution in North Pole worse than Los Angeles, Milwaukee and Detroit combined, Fairbanks News Miner (May 27, 2016)). Defendants have known about Fairbanks’s PM-2.5 problem for more than half a decade, but they have repeatedly failed to take action mandated by the Clean Air Act to address the problem.

Upon consideration of the emergency motion of appellant Standing Rock Sioux Tribe for injunction pending appeal, the oppositions thereto, the reply, the administrative injunction entered September 16, 2016, and the oral argument of the parties, it is ORDERED that the administrative injunction be dissolved. It is FURTHER ORDERED that the motion be denied.