Monday’s order prevents the Lummi Nation from opening a crab fishery east of Whidbey Island in Puget Sound because there's no evidence that the tribe historically fished there.
Young activists in Oregon involved in a long-running lawsuit against the U.S. government over climate inaction won’t have their case helped by a recent win for Montana youth, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
The call for a lawsuit comes a little over a month after President Joe Biden visited Arizona to announce the newly designated Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.
If Missoula ever exceeded the national standard again and it could be shown that vehicles accounted for more than 40% of the carbon monoxide produced, Missoula would go back to using oxygenated fuel.
A plan to protect threatened and endangered species in Oregon’s Western state forests by limiting some logging will move forward for now, despite a recent attempt to make last-minute changes that could have further delayed it.
Four conservation organizations want to join the Montana Department of Environmental Quality in its lawsuit over water quality standards in Lake Koocanusa.
A coalition of environmentalist groups sued Utah on Wednesday to force the state to limit the upstream diversion of water that otherwise would flow into the Great Salt Lake, which they say faces a complete ecosystem collapse.
A tropical weather system called El Niño is beginning its march up the coast of Oregon, bringing with it a warmer winter and inescapable heat for some marine life.
The planet saw its warmest three-month period on record after the unruly El Niño weather pattern emerged earlier this year and injected even more heat into the warming planet's atmosphere, the European Union's climate agency said Wednesday.