Quantcast
Channel: Greenwire
Viewing all 49850 articles
Browse latest View live

NATIONAL PARKS: $1M donation will restore popular Zion trail

0
0
A famous Zion National Park trail destroyed by mudslides in 2010 will be restored by a $1 million donation from the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation.

WETLANDS: Hoping to avoid $2.8M fine, farmer claims feds can't sue

0
0
John Duarte, a Northern California farmer facing $2.8 million in fines for plowing a wheat field, is seeking to have the federal government's case against him dismissed.

NATIONAL FORESTS: Appeals court rejects OHV group's challenge to Santa Fe plan

0
0
A federal court this week threw out a challenge by off-highway vehicle advocates to the Forest Service's travel management plan for Santa Fe National Forest.

FORESTS: Trump proposal would ax research on urban woodlands

0
0
BALTIMORE — In the forests that Katie Lautar tends with help from the Forest Service, hikers are almost as likely to stumble across needles from syringes as the ones that come from pine trees.

NATIONAL MONUMENTS: Zinke to inspect Organ Mountains site in N.M.

0
0
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke tomorrow will kick off a three-day visit to New Mexico to tour the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument, as he contemplates where to recommend reductions to the 497,000-acre site.

INFRASTRUCTURE: Group sues to open meetings of Trump advisory panel

0
0
An environmental group is accusing President Trump of violating a "sunshine" law by outsourcing the development of a $1 trillion infrastructure plan to private advisers meeting behind closed doors.

PEOPLE: Rep. Scalise leaves hospital for rehab

0
0
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), who was seriously wounded in a shooting attack six weeks ago, has been released from MedStar Washington Hospital Center and is now beginning "intensive inpatient rehabilitation," according to a news release today from the facility, which said he has made excellent progress.

FEDERAL AGENCIES: Committee approves union bill, punts on reg reform measure

0
0
Legislation to have federal agencies disclose union work by their employees took another step closer to becoming law today.

ENERGY POLICY: Top EPA appropriator attacks 'risky' loans

0
0
The top House U.S. EPA and Interior Department appropriator is urging federal agencies to investigate "risky" loans for clean energy.

WILDLIFE: Senate panel OKs conservation package

0
0
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee today quickly approved a conservation package whose potential reach extends from the Chesapeake Bay and Western state wetlands to hunters and anglers everywhere.

NATURAL RESOURCES: Panel OKs renewables bills, makes it easier to kill sea lions

0
0
The House Natural Resources Committee passed 21 bills today, including bipartisan legislation to promote renewable energy development on public lands and a controversial measure that would make it easier to kill sea lions to protect endangered salmon in the Columbia River.

REGULATIONS: Some agencies will skip public report on fossil fuel rules

0
0
U.S. EPA and the Department of Transportation are working to send the White House a list of rules and regulations that are hampering fossil fuel production — but the Department of Energy is not.

NOAA: Will the rising sea force agency to flee coast?

0
0
Florida freshman Democratic Rep. Charlie Crist calls climate change "the most important issue facing our country."

EPA: Transition aide blasts Pruitt, 'red team, blue team' scheme

0
0
David Schnare, who resigned from U.S. EPA earlier this year under a cloud of controversy, is faulting Administrator Scott Pruitt over his leadership of the agency.

EPA: Employee on buyouts: 'Make me an offer I can't refuse'

0
0
As U.S. EPA buyouts loom, one worker has drawn inspiration from "The Godfather."

AUSTRALIA: Superhighway for electric vehicles planned

0
0
Australia plans to build a coastal superhighway for electric vehicles that will run beside the Great Barrier Reef, officials said today.

ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Unveiling of Tesla's Model 3 coming tomorrow

0
0
It's a big day tomorrow for the Tesla Model 3, the highly anticipated $35,000 electric sedan Elon Musk hopes will revolutionize the electric car industry.

ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Green bus company debuts Calif. factory

0
0
An electric bus company has opened a factory near Los Angeles.

PESTICIDES: Decision on cyanide 'bombs' to follow investigation

0
0
The Agriculture Department's Wildlife Services announced yesterday that it won't decide whether to lift a cyanide device ban in Idaho until an investigation into an incident involving a boy and his dog is completed.

FEDERAL AGENCIES: Unions bash Trump's pick for personnel chief

0
0
A group of prominent labor unions yesterday launched a crusade opposing President Trump's pick to lead the Office of Personnel Management, George Nesterczuk.
Viewing all 49850 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images