Helen Christophi

Once the global leaders in land conservation, the United States and Brazil are now scaling back legal protections for national parks and other lands at an alarming pace – compromising efforts to conserve biodiversity and mitigate climate change, a new study suggests.

A federal judge in Oakland signaled Friday he will likely block controversial new rules issued by the Trump administration letting employers opt out of covering birth control on moral and religious grounds.

The Ninth Circuit on Friday reviewed a Montana law prohibiting public disclosure of ethics complaints filed against government officials until after they have been decided, inserting itself into the middle of a caustic political rivalry between a Montana House Republican, Brad Tschida of Missoula, and Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock.

The lower a job’s skill level and wages, the greater the odds that the job will be automated. Meanwhile, AI will increase wages in highly skilled occupations, such as computer science and engineering, driving income inequality.

The en banc Ninth Circuit ruled Monday that employers can’t justify different pay grades for male and female employees by using salary history alone, overturning more than three decades of circuit case law.

A Ninth Circuit panel on Thursday threw out a court order halting the federal government’s construction of a dam on the Lower Yellowstone River meant to aid the survival and recovery of the endangered pallid sturgeon in eastern Montana. The three-judge panel ruled in a scathing unsigned memorandum that U.S. District Judge Brian Morris in Great Falls abused his discretion in issuing a preliminary injunction stopping the proposed project.