Two former solicitors general said today that a recent Supreme Court ruling effectively "shut the door" on using an 18th-century law to prosecute in U.S. courts human-rights crimes that occur…
SUPREME COURT: Shell ruling 'shut the door' on foreign human rights claims -- experts
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WILDLIFE: STD threatens Australian icon
Australia's koala population is taking a significant hit from chlamydia, which is threatening to take the species out. In some parts of Australia, up to 90 percent of the koala…
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ENDANGERED SPECIES: FWS proposes protections for Sierra Nevada amphibians
The Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing a species of frog and toad under the Endangered Species Act. The Yosemite toad and Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog populations have decreased…
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ENDANGERED SPECIES: Government agrees to review listing status for captive whale
Animal-rights activists yesterday prevailed in one round of an ongoing fight over the fate of Lolita, a killer whale taken in Washington's Puget Sound and housed in the Miami Seaquarium…
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ENDANGERED SPECIES: Border officials charge 7 with smuggling fish bladders
Border officials in California have charged seven people with smuggling after seizing a large number of endangered fish bladders. The totoaba macdonaldi fish bladder is prized for its use in…
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ENDANGERED SPECIES: Federal probe confirms shooting death of Mexican wolf
SANTA FE, N.M. -- A canine shot by a federal employee in January in western New Mexico was a Mexican wolf, officials confirmed yesterday. A genetic analysis and necropsy verified…
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CALIFORNIA: Protest over utility, regulator coziness scuttles forum
Conflict-of-interest accusations against the California Public Utilities Commission and the state's biggest power company triggered the abrupt scuttling yesterday of a forum the two had planned. The CPUC yesterday indefinitely…
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CLIMATE: Obama-affiliated group targets GOP 'climate deniers'
A spinoff of President Obama's election campaign launches a new climate change push today that will target congressional climate skeptics in their districts. Organizing for Action, the erstwhile Obama for…
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WIND ENERGY: Industry association names new CEO
The wind industry's main trade association today appointed a new CEO with a background as a conservation advocate and environmental regulator in the first Bush administration. Tom Kiernan will lead…
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CHEMICALS: Deadly Texas blast spurs Lautenberg security bill
A week after a massive blast at a Texas fertilizer plant killed 15 people and injured 200, Sen. Frank Lautenberg introduced legislation today that would make it a crime for…
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TRANSMISSION: Concerns about Gateway West route could lead to smaller project -- BLM
The Bureau of Land Management this week plans to unveil the final environmental review of the nearly 1,000-mile-long Gateway West Transmission Line Project, a regulatory milestone for a project the…
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NUCLEAR WASTE: Bipartisan senators float bill creating agency to resolve storage problems
The Department of Energy would lose authority over decisions regarding where and how to store the nation's spent nuclear fuel in favor of a new federal agency, under new waste…
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INTERIOR: Outdoor industry's political stock rises with one of its own at department's helm
Sally Jewell used her perch as CEO of outdoor retailing giant REI to promote government protection of places where her customers hiked, camped, paddled and biked. There she was at the Seattle store seven years ago standing with then-Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire (D) to support the Evergreen State's lawsuit challenging the George W. Bush administration's rollback of roadless protections on national forests. And it was REI's Denver store that hosted then-Interior Secretary Ken Salazar in 2010 as he announced a new "wild lands" push to protect backcountry. Now Interior Secretary Jewell is overseeing the department that manages a fifth of the nation's land. Conservationists, of course, hope Jewell will continue to promote public lands for recreation, even as she balances access for oil and gas development, mining, and off-highway vehicles.
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JAPAN: Women, renewable energy fill more roles at TEPCO
Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of Japan's devastated Fukushima Daiichi plant, is shifting its policy toward women and renewable energy. Woman have recently led regular press conferences and been…
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MICHIGAN: Senate votes to legalize wolf hunting
The Michigan Senate approved a measure that would make wolf hunting a part of the state's constitution, upsetting a group that's been lobbying for a hunting ban. Senators voted 25-11…
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ALASKA: Effort to repeal oil tax law clears first hurdle
Alaska's Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell (R) yesterday certified an application that would allow proponents of a voter referendum aimed at repealing the state's newly passed oil tax cut bill to…
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AGRICULTURE: Chemicals blamed for health problems at chicken plants set to proliferate
The death of a 37-year-old federal poultry inspector who lived near a chicken-processing plant in upstate New York triggered a federal investigation that provoked questions about the health hazards associated…
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CHEMICALS: Plants face more scrutiny after Texas blast
After last week's explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant, similar sites are likely to face scrutiny from both local and federal officials, experts said. "It looks like regulators dropped the…
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DOE: Canine security teams were worked 'beyond their physical capacity' at weapons site -- IG
Dogs searching for explosives at the Department of Energy's Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., were worked "beyond their physical capacity" last year, the DOE inspector general said…
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COAL: Patriot Coal settles on retiree benefits in bankruptcy fight
Patriot Coal Corp. has reached an agreement with union workers over the benefits for its retired salaried employees. Patriot Coal has been locked in a battle with the union since…
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