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FILE – In this Feb. 1, 2021, file photo, Toni Winter, left, chants as she marches with members of Community Justice Initiative and supporters to the Rochester Police Department’s Clinton Section, protesting the police handcuffing and pepper spray of a 9-year-old Black girl in Rochester, N.Y. A police officer using pepper spray against the girl has spurred outrage as the latest example of law enforcement mistreatment of Black people, and one that shows even Black children are not exempt. (Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Democrat & Chronicle via AP, File)
What started with a report of “family trouble” in Rochester, New York, and ended with police treating a fourth-grader like a crime suspect, has spurred outrage as the latest example of law enforcement mistreatment of Black people.
Environmental Groups’ Legal Victory Protects Sage Grouse, Marks Another Blow to Drilling on Federal Lands
Environmental groups that sued to throw out a federal plan allowing new exploration and mining on public lands heralded a recent win in court that they said was vital to protect greater sage grouse.
A federal judge on Thursday overturned a Trump administration decision to jettison sage grouse protections from 10 million acres in the West, primarily in Nevada and Idaho, and open the land to exploration and mining. The plan was part of a broader deregulation effort by former President Trump.
U.S. District Judge Lynn Winmill in Idaho said the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) failed to provide an adequate reason to disregard “all of the prior expert findings” that pointed to “continued population declines and habitat losses” for sage grouse if mining were allowed. That decision followed an earlier Winmill ruling that found the Trump administrati
BILLINGS, Mont. A federal judge on Thursday overturned a Trump administration action that allowed mining and other development on 10 million acres in parts of six western states that are considered important for the survival of a struggling bird species.