Courthouse News

The court found there wasn't enough data on sage grouse populations in the Grasshopper Watershed to support an injunction but said the feds likely violated an environmental law.

The lawsuit follows the decision by the Department of the Interior last month to revoke protections of land alongside the Trans-Alaskan pipeline.

More than two dozen states rejected the settlement, which doesn't force a company breakup, and will continue the trial next week.

Scientists are worried temperatures are rising more quickly than previously realized; a newly published report backs up that analysis.

The loss was partly blamed on nurses strikes in New York City, since health care has been one of the few bright spots in past reports — but many other industries contributed to the unexpected decline.

Everyone knows the charismatic hummingbird. For a dedicated few, they are a way of life.

For more than a decade, Colorado has consistently failed to meet federal standards for ground-level ozone across the Front Range where 3.3 million people live.

In a mixed ruling, a federal judge said former students lack standing for injunctive relief because there is no imminent threat of future harm.

Easing the amount of cadmium allowed under the Clean Water Act is an agency action, so the EPA should have consulted with other federal agencies, the panel found.

A new policy adopted by the Bureau of Land Management would open up 71 million acres of land to oil and gas drilling, as well as mining.