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After packing the chambers with people wearing stickers honoring endangered bats, environmental groups see Miami-Dade commission delay vote on water park outside Zoo Miami.

The Department of Transportation quietly moved to ban the transportation of liquefied natural gas via rail in a major victory for environmental groups.

The long fight over Miami Wilds now has Ron Magill as an official opponent and Mayor Daniella Levine Cava as a backer.

A Trump-era rule that allows for the logging of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest violates federal law, a judge found Thursday.

A coalition of environmental groups sued the Biden administration over its upcoming oil and gas lease sale, which will auction off 67 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico. Plaintiffs in the lawsuit allege that the lease sales, mandated by the Inflation Reduction Act, violate the National Environmental Policy Act, specifically that the Interior Department’s…

Friends of the Earth claimed that PG&E was contractually obligated to shutter the nuclear power plant by 2025.

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Environmental and financial concerns weighed in the U.S. appeals court decision to reject the Surface Transportation Board’s approval of the construction of the Uinta Basin Railway. The post Appeals court chides STB for failures in Uinta Basin Railway project review appeared first on FreightWaves.

If there is anywhere in the country primed to welcome the clean energy transition, it is Penobscot Bay in Maine. Electricity prices there are high and volatile. The ocean waters are warming fast, threatening the lobster fishery. Miles offshore, winds blow strong enough to heat every home and power every car in the state. For more than 15 years, researchers at the University of Maine have been honing scale models of floating wind turbines inspired by oil rigs. They are now confident they can mass

‘It’s facing a very precarious future,’ says conservation biologist Melissa Abdo