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The city of Ithaca is considering whether to approve Cornell University’s plans to install new artificial turf fields, drawing concern from environmental groups who say the proposal poses numerous health and pollution concerns. At a webinar on the issue that Zero Waste Ithaca hosted in ...

Amidst growing concerns about political interference in environmental regulations and scientific research, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees have negotiated a new contract clause aimed at shielding them from political meddling. This proactive measure highlights the ...

On Thursday, June 13, conservation organizations submitted comments in opposition of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) draft amendment, which addresses impacts on Wyoming’s greater sage-grouse populations. The following conservation groups collaborated on the submitted ...

The 470-mile-long Greenlink West transmission line proposed to span the length of Nevada from Las Vegas to Reno will cross the boundaries of a national monument established by Congress a decade ago to protect Ice Age fossils. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, for example, ...

Inaction by the Biden administration on rules that would prevent bear baiting in national preserves in Alaska has reopened litigation over those rules. At issue are rules that would allow hunters on national preservers to use donuts and grease-soaked bread loaves to lure in bears, to kill ...

Recent technology breakthroughs have unlocked the potential production of many billions of barrels of Alaska’s high viscosity heavy oil, a development not yet accounted for in U.S. climate strategy. Federal intervention is needed now to keep this heavy oil carbon bomb in the ground. ...