by Editor | Apr 3, 2013 | Citizen Action, Environmental Lawsuits, Govt Agencies, Property Rights, WA State News, War on the West, Water Issues
By RICHARD D. OXLEY Bainbridge Island Review Staff Writer March 8, 2013 · 11:58 AM Bainbridge Island, WA – The city’s update to the Shoreline Master Program spent months being hammered out by the Bainbridge Island Planning Commission. Now the city council is...
by Editor | Apr 3, 2013 | Agenda 21, Environmental Lawsuits, EPA, Wildlands Project
by Michal Conger Washington Examiner Posted 4/2/2013 The Supreme Court sided with the timber industry against environmentalists today in a ruling that loggers do not need a special Environmental Protection Agency permit because of gravel and dirt that can fall from...
by Editor | Apr 2, 2013 | Dams, Environmental Lawsuits, War on the West, Water Issues
The Heartland Institute Posted 4/22013 Montana Sen. Jim Keane (D-Butte) has filed legislation to define hydropower as a renewable power source for meeting Montana’s renewable power mandates. Keane’s bill follows similar legislation approved by the legislature in 2011...
by Editor | Mar 23, 2013 | Environmental Lawsuits, Govt Agencies, War on the West
Posted 3/22/2013 Capital Press GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — A timber industry group has filed a lawsuit challenging the latest habitat protections for the northern spotted owl, a threatened species. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Washington, D.C.,...
by Editor | Mar 7, 2013 | Environmental Lawsuits, War on the West
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI Capital Press Posted 3/6/2013 PORTLAND — Environmentalists want a federal appeals court to halt grazing on a half-million acres of public land in Oregon because they say cattle are hazardous to the sage grouse. The Oregon Natural Desert...
by Editor | Feb 22, 2013 | Environmental Lawsuits, Govt Agencies, WA State News, War on the West, Water Issues
A federal judge has dismissed a suit against the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe’s hatchery plan as moot, and the tribe has terminated its plan to stock the Elwha with nonnative steelhead. By Lynda V. Mapes Seattle Times staff reporter Posted 2/17/2013 A federal judge has...
