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On March 21, 2012, Justice Scalia authored a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision about the ability to seek judicial review of EPA decisions under the Clean Water Act. In Sackett v. EPA, the Court does not actually decide the merits because the issue before the Court includes only whether and when a court may hear [...]
Lawsuit Seeks to Restore Federal Protection to Gray Wolves in Northern Rockies Missoula, MT—May 5. Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Friends of the Clearwater, and WildEarth Guardians today filed suit in federal court in Montana against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for delisting wolves in Montana, Idaho, and portions of Utah, Washington, and Oregon. [...]
Washington, DC-March 18. WildEarth Guardians supports Federal Judge Donald Molloy’s August 2010 decision that put wolves in the Northern Rockies back on the endangered species list and also set important legal precedent. But today, the Interior Department and 10 environmental groups announced a settlement that agrees to wolf delisting and specifically seeks to vacate the Judge Molloy’s decision. Guardians applauds Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Western Watersheds Project, and Friends of the Clearwater for continuing to support Molloy’s ruling and not going along with the delisting plan.
WildEarth Guardians and the Mile High Law Office reached an agreement with the Fish and Wildlife Service in the end of September that will map out a plan to recover the jaguarundi. The agreement requires the Service to issue a draft recovery plan for the cat in its Texas range by December 2012 and a [...]
To the surprise of no one, the U.S. Congress headed to its pre-election recess without passing major legislation to address the issue of global climate change. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, removed the “cap and trade” provisions intended to reduce the build-up of greenhouse gas emissions from the energy bill before introducing a stripped-down [...]
That’s obvious political bombast, to put it politely. But there are legitimate policy reasons to support responsible development of natural gas. Most obviously, there is the growing consensus that the world’s climate is changing and that human activity plays a significant role in that change. From the standpoint of greenhouse gases, coal is the clearly identified villain, with the much-touted “clean coal” so far proving about as much of an oxymoron as “safe sex.”
These are trying times for the metropolitan Denver Rapid Transit District’s FasTracks rail transit project. The single most important environmental issue in Colorado faces mounting costs, shaky revenues and a fracturing political base. But it remains critical for Colorado’s future.
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