U.S. Supreme Court rejects fossil fuel industry effort to remove protection for threatened polar bears

Global warming seen as main threat to Arctic predators Staff Report Endangered Species Act protection for polar bears will remain in place following a U.S. Supreme Court decision late last week to reject an attempt by the fossil fuel industry to overturn the 2010 listing. At issue was a decision by the U.S. Fish and

Public lands: U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to Tongass National Forest roadless area protection

Alaska’s bid for more logging in roadless areas hits a brick wall Staff Report Fifteen years of wrangling over a national public lands roadless rule ended with a whimper last week, as the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an attempt by the State of Alaska to open parts of the Tongass National Forest to logging. Alaska

Will the U.S. Supreme Court block the Clean Power Plan?

Fossil fuel dinosaurs make last-ditch effort to keep polluting the nation’s air with dangerous greenhouse gases By Bob Berwyn Texas, West Virginia, Colorado and 26 other states are going to the U.S. Supreme Court with a last-ditch effort to slow the Obama administration’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas pollution. The states want the court to

U.S. Supreme Court rejects national forest roadless rule challenge

State, mining and ranching groups lose bid to overturn protection for 58 million acres of environmental valuable wild lands By Summit Voice SUMMIT COUNTY — A last-ditch effort by miners, ranchers and other extractive users to overturn the U.S. Forest Service’s national roadless rule has failed, as the U.S. Supreme Court reject a plea to hear the

Eight states, mining, ranching and motorized groups ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear latest roadless rule challenge

Critics continue to claim the rule creates de facto wilderness By Bob Berwyn SUMMIT COUNTY — Eight states, numerous mining and ranching groups, along with several motorized recreation groups have joined the Colorado Mining Association in appealing the U.S. Forest Service’s national roadless rule to the U.S. Supreme Court. In its petition to the Supreme