Environment

Louisiana Group Defends Coast Guard Actions to Stop 14-Year Taylor Energy Oil Spill

Earthjustice, on behalf of Healthy Gulf (formerly Gulf Restoration Network), moved to intervene in a lawsuit to defend the U.S. Coast Guard’s actions to contain the ongoing Taylor Energy oil spill against Taylor’s lawsuit trying to block U.S. Coast...

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Voices of young climate action activists ‘give me hope’ says UN chief

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Youth attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany.

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Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration’s Vast Expansion of Gulf Oil, Gas Leasing

Environmental groups sued the Trump administration to challenge an oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico that will open up more than 78 million acres to offshore drilling without fully analyzing the risks to people, wildlife or the environment...

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Sámi reindeer herders oppose an industrial railway cutting through their land

Seven Sámi reindeer herding cooperatives have given official statements to oppose the planned industrial railway line that would cut through their herding areas in the Great Northern Forest in Finland. They demand that the project should be abandoned...

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