"The Two Words That Rewrote American Water Policy"
"The strange tale of how a Supreme Court justice accidentally triggered the biggest new water rule in a decade."
Source: Politico, 05/26/2016
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Senate Defeats Effort To Defund Clean Water Rule That Protects Wetlands
"The Senate narrowly defeated a controversial amendment Thursday that would have stripped funding for clean water protections and ensured defeat of a $37.5 billion energy and water spending bill."
Source: USA TODAY, 04/22/2016
"Supreme Court Sympathetic To Property Owner In Wetlands Dispute"
"The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared likely to rule that property owners can challenge the federal government in court over the need for permits under a national water protection law in a case involving a company's plans for a Minnesota peat mine."
Source: Reuters, 03/31/2016
"Jury Finds Former BP Engineer Not Guilty In Oil Spill Case"
"NEW ORLEANS — A former BP rig engineer was found not guilty Thursday on a charge that his negligence in interpreting a critical test contributed to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill."
Source: AP, 02/26/2016
"Oregon Wildlife Refuge Occupation Disrupts Conservation Efforts"
"The armed occupation of a wildlife refuge in southeastern Oregon has interrupted important habitat restoration work that must be completed before spring migration — when hundreds of thousands of birds descend on the area’s vast wetlands, conservationists and bird-watchers say."
Source: Aljazeera America, 01/12/2016
"For U.S. Tribes, a Movement to Revive Native Foods and Lands"
"On ancestral lands, the Fond du Lac band in Minnesota is planting wild rice and restoring wetlands damaged by dams, industry, and logging. Their efforts are part of a growing trend by Native Americans to bring back traditional food sources and heal scarred landscapes."
Source: YaleE360, 09/30/2015
"Family Pond Boils at Center of a ‘Regulatory War’ in Wyoming"
"FORT BRIDGER, Wyo. — The sun was sinking and the brook trout were biting, so Andy Johnson and his daughter Aspen, 6, stepped onto their sun-bleached pier, hooked some mealworms and cast their lines into the most infamous pond in the West."
Source: NY Times, 09/21/2015
"Oil Pipeline Foes Ask Judge To Block Alberta Clipper Upgrade"
"A federal judge heard conflicting arguments Thursday on whether he should block a capacity expansion on the Alberta Clipper oil pipeline or allow a temporary workaround that lets Enbridge Energy move hundreds of thousands of barrels per day of Canadian tar sands crude across the border without triggering the kind of environmental review that has held up the proposed Keystone XL pipeline."
Source: AP, 09/11/2015
"Water Policy: Judge Throws Major Obama Rule Into Doubt"
"The legal and practical morass surrounding the Obama administration's controversial water rule became more muddied [Thursday] when a federal judge blocked its implementation in 13 states just hours before it was set to go into effect."
Source: Greenwire, 08/31/2015
"The $50 Billion Plan To Save Louisiana's Wetlands"
"Louisiana is in trouble. The Mississippi River Delta is disappearing into the Gulf of Mexico at the rate of 16 square miles a year, some of the fastest land loss on the planet."
Source: Living on Earth, 07/20/2015
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