Coal Plant Expansion Challenged by Conservation Groups
Kansas City — The refusal by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) to fairly consider objections to a new massive coal-fired power plant near Holcomb was challenged in court today. The plant at the heart of the suit is the proposed Sunflower 2100-megawatt coal-fired power plant. The environmental law firm, Earthjustice, representing the Sierra Club, filed a lawsuit today against the state of Kansas seeking to get a complete and fair hearing for objections to the state’s rush to approve and build this new coal facility. The proposed power plant is one of the largest, if not the …
Western Citizens Seek To Reinstate Roadless Area Protections:
The 2001 Roadless Rule was a widely supported regulation that protected over 58 million acres of public land on national forests from road construction, commercial logging, and development. Hunters, fishermen, hikers, and millions of regular Americans considered it one of the greatest forest conservation measures in U.S. history. Despite its valuable protections, the 2001 Roadless Rule was formally repealed by the Bush administration in May of 2005. …
LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST NEW NATIONAL FOREST RULES(A)
Bush Administration Regulations Reverse Decades of Progress in Forest Management, Eliminate Wildlife and Natural Resource Protections …
Climate Change is Human Rights Issue(A)
Inuit Leader Sheila Watt-Cloutier Announces Intention to File a Human Right Claim Against the U.S. for its Dangerous Greenhouse Gas Emissions …
Bush Administration to Increase Logging in Sierra Nevada National Forests(A)
Over 6,000 public appeals ignored, fire resistant 30-inch diameter old growth trees to be cut, safeguards for water and wildlife will be limited, logging given preference over protecting communities from wildfire …
BUSH ADMINISTRATION MANAGEMENT OF CALIFORNIA DESERT CONSERVATION AREA STRUCK DOWN(A)
Off-road and cattle grazing must be limited to protect species …
JUDGE ORDERS DISCLOSURE OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED "BIOPHARM" CROP LOCATIONS(A)
Ruling an Unprecedented Victory for Citizen Oversight of Biotech Experiments …
Thirty-Five U.S. Senators Ask President Bush to Rescind Policy That Expose Wetlands, Streams, and Other Waters to Pollution(A)
Senator Feingold Leads Efforts Protect the Nation's Waters …
CONSERVATION GROUPS TAKE FIRST STEP IN LAWSUIT TO PROTECT PACIFIC FISHER(A)
ADMINISTRATION PLAYS POLITICS WHILE RARE RELATIVE OF OTTER HEADED FOR EXTINCTION …
Japanese Delegation Comes To U.S. To Save Exotic Marine Mammal and Cultural Icon(A)
Unprecedented legal strategy being used to redirect US military's plan to build airbase on crucial dugong habitat off Okinawa …
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