Biden Administration Bans Mining in Boundary Waters Wilderness
First, the Tongass, now the Boundary Waters. The Biden administration has imposed a 20-year ban on new mineral development across 225,000 acres of national forest …
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Biden Administration Restores Protections for Alaska’s Tongass National Forest
Yesterday the Biden administration restored protections for more than half of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, safeguarding one of the world’s largest intact temperate rainforests from …
EPA finalizes water rule that repeals Trump-era changes
President Joe Biden’s administration finalized regulations protecting hundreds of thousands of small streams, wetlands, and other waterways, repealing a Trump-era rule that federal courts had …
Biden Administration, Trout Unlimited Invest up to $40 Million to Restore Watersheds
Boom! he Biden-Harris Administration is announcing today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service will provide up to $40 million to Trout Unlimited as …
Plaintiffs in Long Fight Over Endangered Salmon Hope a Resolution Is Near
After decades of legal fighting over hydroelectric dams that have contributed to the depletion of salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest, the Biden administration is …
White House: To help salmon, dams may need to be removed
The Biden administration on Tuesday released two reports arguing that removing dams on the lower Snake River may be needed to restore salmon runs to …
Supreme Court Delivers a Rare Win for Environmental Policy
In the wake of some incredibly demoralizing news that’s come out of the Supreme Court recently, it looks like they may have done some good: …
EPA proposes Bristol Bay protections in blow to Pebble Mine
She may not be singing just yet but the fat lady is definitely warming up. The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed protections for some Bristol …
Biden administration, tribes talk salmon, steelhead recovery
The Biden administration reiterated its determination to change course on the decades-long, $17 billion effort to recover wild salmon in the Snake and Columbia rivers …
A federal judge canceled a pile of Biden Admin oil and gas leases
Late last year, just days after pledging to cut fossil fuels at international climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, the Biden administration held the largest oil …