"House Passes Bill To Stop EPA Water Rule"
"The House voted Tuesday to overturn an Obama administration rule aimed at redefining which streams, ponds, wetlands and other waterways are under its jurisdiction."
Source: The Hill, 05/13/2015
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"Judge Rules Feds Must Pay for Katrina Flood Damage"
"A federal judge ruled Friday that the Army Corps of Engineers' construction and management of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet (MR-GO) channel had created a "ticking time bomb" for the New Orleans area and that the federal government must pay for some of the flood damage from Hurricane Katrina and subsequent storms."
Source: Greenwire, 05/05/2015
"California Water Plan Has Less Money for Environmental Restoration"
"A controversial plan to divert water from above a key California watershed, pushed hard by Governor Jerry Brown as a vital new anchor for the state's drought-parched water system, would involve far less environmental restoration than initially proposed under changes announced on Thursday."
Source: Reuters, 05/01/2015
"White House Threatens Veto of GOP Bill To Kill Water Regs"
"The White House has threatened to veto a Republican bill that would repeal a controversial Environmental Protection Agency clean water rule."
Source: The Hill, 04/30/2015
Obama To Press Climate Agenda With Trip To Everglades on Earth Day
"President Obama will tout his administration's efforts to protect the environment during a visit to the Everglades in south Florida on Wednesday, as the White House presses its go-it-alone climate-change agenda."
Source: Wash Post, 04/20/2015
Stiff Opposition to Bakken-Bearing Pipeline in Land of 10,000 Lakes
"A Canadian company proposes a multibillion-dollar oil pipeline through some of the Midwest's prized lakes and wetlands, igniting a firestorm among environmentalists, tribes and anti-fossil fuel activists who say the proposal is built on hollow promises of economic development and dubious claims of environmental protection."
Source: EnergyWire, 04/13/2015
"Exxon Mobil Settles With New Jersey Over Environmental Damage"
"A long-fought legal battle to recover $8.9 billion in damages from Exxon Mobil Corporation for the contamination and loss of use of more than 1,500 acres of wetlands, marshes, meadows and waters in New Jersey has been quietly settled by the state for around $250 million."
Source: NY Times, 02/27/2015
"Opposition Grows To Nicaragua Canal Connecting Atlantic And Pacific"
"The canal would allow passage for the largest ships on the water, but cut through wetlands, forests and the region's largest freshwater lake — and environmentalists worry about the consequences."
Source: NPR, 02/27/2015
Judge Dismissses Wetlands Damage Suit Against Oil, Gas Companies
"A federal judge on Friday (Feb. 13) dismissed a controversial wetlands damage lawsuit filed by the east bank levee authority against more than 80 oil, gas and pipeline companies, ruling that the authority failed to make a valid claim against the energy firms."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 02/16/2015
Voluntary Fertilizer Cuts Not Enough To Shrink Gulf Dead Zone: Study
"Major voluntary strategies used on Midwest farmland to curb fertilizers that feed the annual low oxygen "Dead Zone" in the Gulf of Mexico don't remove enough nutrients to succeed, according to a new, peer reviewed scientific study."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 02/04/2015
