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Election Month Ruling By Supreme Court Regrettable
FAIRFAX, Virginia, Sept. 7 [Category: Government/Public Administration] -- Americans for Limited Government posted the following news release:
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Election Month Ruling By Supreme Court Regrettable
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June 29, 2026, Fairfax, Va.-Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement on the Supreme Court's ruling in Watson v. Republican National Committee:
"In an apparent bid to avert Democrats' threatened Supreme Court packing scheme, Republican-appointed justices John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett have apparently opted to just give Democrats
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FAIRFAX, Virginia, Sept. 7 [Category: Government/Public Administration] -- Americans for Limited Government posted the following news release:
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Election Month Ruling By Supreme Court Regrettable
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June 29, 2026, Fairfax, Va.-Americans for Limited Government Executive Director Robert Romano today issued the following statement on the Supreme Court's ruling in Watson v. Republican National Committee:
"In an apparent bid to avert Democrats' threatened Supreme Court packing scheme, Republican-appointed justices John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett have apparently opted to just give Democratseverything they want including an election month voting where ballots are counted no matter how late they arrive after Election Day. Arguing there is no prohibition against late ballots, the nation's highest court has effectively made Election Day a dead letter. Now, the only resort for the American people who want to restore same-day voting is for Congress to pass another statute to clarify what federal law has already stated for more than a century was 'the day for the election...' This ruling is regrettable and will prove Stalin's maxim that it is not those who vote, but those who count the ballots that decide everything."
For media availability contact Americans for Limited Government at media@limitgov.org.
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Original text here: https://getliberty.org/2026/06/election-month-ruling-by-supreme-court-regrettable/
Western Watersheds Project: Trump Issues Executive Order in Effort to Strip Protections From Mexican Gray Wolves
HAILEY, Idaho, Sept. 5 -- The Western Watersheds Project posted the following news release:
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Trump Issues Executive Order in Effort to Strip Protections from Mexican Gray Wolves
WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Trump today signed an executive order directing the Secretary of the Interior to consider removing Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves and Mexican gray wolves, as well as provide recommendations for legislative efforts to do the same. It goes further and encourages the federal agencies to meddle with states' protected species laws to remove protections, and directs the
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HAILEY, Idaho, Sept. 5 -- The Western Watersheds Project posted the following news release:
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Trump Issues Executive Order in Effort to Strip Protections from Mexican Gray Wolves
WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Trump today signed an executive order directing the Secretary of the Interior to consider removing Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves and Mexican gray wolves, as well as provide recommendations for legislative efforts to do the same. It goes further and encourages the federal agencies to meddle with states' protected species laws to remove protections, and directs theagencies to weaken evidentiary standards related to predation of livestock.
"This is a huge distraction to placate a handful of ranchers and make them believe that wolves are a greater threat than President Trump's own policies," said Greta Anderson, deputy director of Western Watersheds Project. "The impact of wolves on the livestock industry pale in comparison to the impacts of recent trade agreements and the reality of ranching in the arid West under changing climate conditions."
Ranchers are entitled to 100% compensation for their wolf-predation losses under state and federal programs, and state wildlife departments also provide funding for conflict mitigation programs like livestock carcass removal and range riding, which help discourage habituation behaviors.
"Mexican wolves aren't the problem, but the Administration's approach to solving purported conflict is. If the Administration truly wanted to support ranchers, they would prioritize increasing funding for non-lethal initiatives to create long-lasting solutions," said Regan Downey, director of education and advocacy at the Wolf Conservation Center.
Longstanding mismanagement of the U.S. population of Mexican wolves, which were reintroduced to Arizona and New Mexico in 1998, has led to a decline in the population's genetic diversity accompanied by birth defects and fewer pups being born and surviving. Just seven Mexican wolves were successfully bred in captivity decades ago to rescue the subspecies from extinction, but since that time most of the genes from those seven last wolves have been lost.
"Today's executive order puts the future of Mexican wolf protections directly on the federal chopping block and even directs states to remove their own protections," said Michelle Lute, PhD in wolf conservation and executive director of Wildlife for All. "Look no further than the mismanagement of wolves by other states like Montana to understand what that would mean for one of the world's most critically endangered canid species. We urge the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to base any recovery determination on the best available science-not political pressure."
"Once again we see this administration attempting to override the checks and balances provided by bedrock environmental laws like the Endangered Species Act in order to create industry carve outs and distract from other bad policies that are proving unpopular," said Leia Barnett, New Mexico Conservation Lead for WildEarth Guardians. "Directing federal agencies to pressure states into rolling back their own wildlife protections isn't just bad policy, it's an attempt to bypass the very framework Congress built to keep species recovery decisions insulated from political whims."
"For far too long, endangered animals such as Mexican gray wolves have been subject to the political whims of politicians who know very little about these endangered animals," said Sandy Bahr, director for Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter. "Mexican wolves are on their way back, but they continue to need the protections afforded by the Endangered Species Act to truly recover and thrive. This executive order is a political stunt at the expense of the wolves and other creatures who depend on the healthy ecosystems wolves help facilitate."
"The Mexican gray wolf is not recovered simply because the population has grown," said Claire Musser, executive director of the Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project. "With just 317 wolves in the wild and a population still facing serious genetic challenges, weakening federal protections now would put decades of recovery work at risk. Decisions about the future of lobos must be based on the best available science and what these wolves need for long-term recovery, not political pressure."
"Mexican wolves desperately need more care and less persecution and Trump's executive order does the opposite," said Michael Robinson, a senior conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity. "We're prepared to prove in court that downlisting Mexican wolves and a steep increase in killings would not only be cruel but also deeply unwise and illegal."
BACKGROUND
According to a recent investigation by KUNM, federal data shows that Mexican wolves do not pose a broad economic threat to the livestock industry. Even at the peak of documented conflict in Catron County, New Mexico, investigators recorded 121 probable and confirmed livestock deaths in 2019 - approximately 0.65% of the area's estimated cattle population. By comparison, the average annual calf-mortality rate from other causes is approximately 6%. Documented wolf-related losses have also declined across the recovery area even as the wolf population has grown, and a 2025 University of Arizona study found that wolves' effects on county-level cattle inventories and livestock sales were "not detectable."
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Original text here: https://www.westernwatersheds.org/2026/09/16504/
[Category: Environment]
Protect Our Care Statement: Trump Administration Lies to Michiganders After Gutting Rural Health Care
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 -- Protect Our Care issued the following statement on Sept. 4, 2026:
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STATEMENT: Trump Administration Lies to Michiganders After Gutting Rural Health Care
Today, the Trump administration announced misleading "rural health investments" in Michigan, conveniently leaving out any mention of the catastrophic health care cuts Donald Trump and Republicans made that have ravaged Michigan's health care system and left rural communities in the dust. Last year, Donald Trump and Republicans rammed through $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid to pay for tax breaks for billionaires and
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 -- Protect Our Care issued the following statement on Sept. 4, 2026:
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STATEMENT: Trump Administration Lies to Michiganders After Gutting Rural Health Care
Today, the Trump administration announced misleading "rural health investments" in Michigan, conveniently leaving out any mention of the catastrophic health care cuts Donald Trump and Republicans made that have ravaged Michigan's health care system and left rural communities in the dust. Last year, Donald Trump and Republicans rammed through $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid to pay for tax breaks for billionaires andbig corporations. Michigan alone will lose $31.6 billion from those Medicaid cuts -- making the $25 million CMS announced a pittance by comparison. Also in Michigan, 23 hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes have been forced to shut down, cut services, or are at risk of doing so after the GOP's cuts. Nationwide, rural hospitals that were already operating on razor-thin margins are struggling to stay afloat.
Rural health care leaders themselves have warned that these funds won't come close to undoing the damage of $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, which were part of the "big ugly bill" Trump and Republicans rammed through last year. Jed Hansen, the executive director of the Nebraska Rural Health Association, said, "[The] Rural Health Transformation will not save a single hospital in our state. I don't think it will save a single hospital nationally."
Protect Our Care President Brad Woodhouse issued the following statement:
"Republicans are trying to put a band-aid on a bullet hole after they were the ones to pull the trigger. These are the same people who gutted rural health care funding to give tax breaks for the likes of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. They didn't care about rural health then, and they can't pretend to care about it now. This is another publicity stunt meant to distract working families from the health care crisis Trump and Republicans in Congress knowingly created. This so-called 'investment' is a drop in the bucket compared to the $31.6 billion Michiganders are expected to lose in Medicaid funding over the next decade. And that doesn't even include the funds that clinics and nursing homes are expected to lose. They brought our health care system to the breaking point to line the pockets of their billionaire buddies, and no amount of lying can detract from that."
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Original text here: https://www.protectourcare.org/statement-trump-administration-lies-to-michiganders-after-gutting-rural-health-care/
[Category: Health Care]
League of Women Voters: Federal Court Blocks U.S. Postal Service From Interfering With Mail Ballots
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 -- The League of Women Voters issued the following news release on Sept. 4, 2026:
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Federal Court Blocks US Postal Service from Interfering with Mail Ballots
Preliminary injunction bars USPS from enforcing a rule that would have made voter disenfranchisement "practically inevitable"
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BOSTON - A federal District Court today issued a preliminary injunction blocking the US Postal Service (USPS) from enforcing key parts of a rule that would have operationalized President Trump's March 31 executive order restricting mail voting. Under the rule, the Postal Service would
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 -- The League of Women Voters issued the following news release on Sept. 4, 2026:
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Federal Court Blocks US Postal Service from Interfering with Mail Ballots
Preliminary injunction bars USPS from enforcing a rule that would have made voter disenfranchisement "practically inevitable"
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BOSTON - A federal District Court today issued a preliminary injunction blocking the US Postal Service (USPS) from enforcing key parts of a rule that would have operationalized President Trump's March 31 executive order restricting mail voting. Under the rule, the Postal Service wouldhave refused to deliver mail ballots to certain voters.
The court found that the rule was likely unconstitutional and unlawful -- and that enforcing it would make voter disenfranchisement "practically inevitable."
The preliminary injunction blocks USPS from refusing to deliver ballots that do not comply with the many requirements in the rule, although it allows states to voluntarily comply with certain parts of it. The USPS rule requires states to follow specific guidelines for designing their mail ballot envelopes, create unique bar codes for every ballot, and upload an advance list of all mail voters to a new and untested federal portal, which is not yet operational. Dozens of state and local officials explained to the court in detail how it would be impossible to comply with the rule for the November elections, while only one state submitted a declaration that claimed it would "likely" be able to comply.
In issuing the preliminary injunction, the court dissolved a temporary restraining order that the Trump administration had asked the US Supreme Court to stay. The administration's motion to stay the temporary restraining order is now moot.
The lawsuit was filed by a coalition of nonpartisan voter service and civic organizations: the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts, League of Women Voters, Association of Americans Resident Overseas, US Vote Foundation, OCA - Asian Pacific American Advocates, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. They are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Massachusetts, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, Legal Defense Fund (LDF), Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC (Advancing Justice - AAJC), and LatinoJustice PRLDEF.
In the ruling, the court recognized that plaintiffs and their members would suffer immediate and irreparable harm if the USPS rule were to be enforced: "Members are threatened with grave harm, namely disenfranchisement, if they do not receive a mail ballot from their local election official. This threat, moreover, is imminent." The court noted that there is no evidence on record of fraud in mail ballots.
The preliminary injunction is in place through the November 3, 2026 election.
Plaintiffs and counsel jointly issued the following statement:
"Today's ruling makes it crystal clear: The US Postal Service must deliver all election mail. USPS has no authority in the Constitution or federal law over how states administer mail voting. And the President cannot order the Postal Service to create a disruptive new bureaucracy that will throw the election into chaos and disenfranchise untold numbers of voters. States are already beginning to send mail ballots to voters for the November election, and this preliminary injunction provides a critical protection from the chaos that this rule would unleash. As the court noted, mail ballots have been used since the Civil War. Millions of citizens in the United States and overseas rely on mail ballots as a safe and trusted means of participating in our democracy. We will continue to defend the right of every eligible voter to cast their ballot freely and securely, including by mail."
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Original text here: https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/federal-court-blocks-us-postal-service-interfering-mail-ballots
[Category: Political]
Environmental Law & Policy Center: EPA and Army Corps' Re-Proposed 'Polluted Water Rule' Will Gut Federal Protections in Great Lakes Region and Beyond
CHICAGO, Illinois, Sept. 5 -- The Environmental Law and Policy Center issued the following news release on Sept. 4, 2026:
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EPA & Army Corps' Re-Proposed "Polluted Water Rule" will Gut Federal Protections in Great Lakes Region and Beyond
"The EPA and Army Corps' new proposal issued today makes one thing clear: the Trump administration wants to gut the Clean Water Act"
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Washington, D.C. - Today, the Trump administration's EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a supplemental proposed rule, known as the "Waters of the U.S.", that will restrict even further Clean Water Act protections
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CHICAGO, Illinois, Sept. 5 -- The Environmental Law and Policy Center issued the following news release on Sept. 4, 2026:
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EPA & Army Corps' Re-Proposed "Polluted Water Rule" will Gut Federal Protections in Great Lakes Region and Beyond
"The EPA and Army Corps' new proposal issued today makes one thing clear: the Trump administration wants to gut the Clean Water Act"
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Washington, D.C. - Today, the Trump administration's EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a supplemental proposed rule, known as the "Waters of the U.S.", that will restrict even further Clean Water Act protectionsfor most streams and wetlands that are essential to keeping waterways in the Midwest clean and prevent flooding.
Statement by Nancy Stoner, ELPC Senior Attorney
"EPA and the U.S. Army Corps get it wrong again by re-proposing to further weaken one of the most important environmental and public health statutes in our nation's history. Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972 to protect waterways across the U.S. from pollution or destruction. EPA and the Corps don't even pretend that their re-proposal will provide better protection for waterways that Americans recognize are critical to ensuring safe drinking water and a healthy U.S. economy.
"The EPA and Army Corps' new proposal issued today makes one thing clear: the Trump administration wants to gut the Clean Water Act. Limiting the definition of waters of the United States to only "perennial" waters and wetlands would exclude the vast majority of streams and wetlands from its scope.
"The re-proposal reads as if the purpose of the Clean Water Act is to eliminate regulation. It isn't. It's about protecting waterways for swimming, fishing, drinking, irrigation, livestock watering, manufacturing, and a host of other essential uses. While it has not yet succeeded in its goal of making waters nationwide swimmable and fishable by 1983, the Clean Water Act is one of the nation's most effective statutes for ensuring that Americans have safe, clean water to drink, to swim in, to fish, and to enjoy. The nation's waters, including the Great Lakes, have dramatically improved since 1972. Waterways are cleaner thanks to the Clean Water Act establishing a system of protection that stopped pollution at its source before it reached the Mississippi or the Great Lakes.
"Today's Re-Proposed Rule tears at the very foundation of that system by eliminating protection for the streams that feed the larger lakes and rivers and allowing the wetlands that filter out pollution and prevent flooding to be paved over. EPA can try to change the rules by eliminating protections that Congress decisively put in place, but it can't change the underlying science. No matter what the Trump EPA says or does, water still flows downhill and pollution flows with it into rivers, lakes, and even worse, into the source waters for our drinking water.
"Unfortunately, EPA doesn't know the value of water. This Re-proposed Rule, like so many others by the Trump EPA, would weaken the protections that Americans have relied upon for more than 50 years. Such a sweeping rollback is inconsistent with decades of scientific evidence demonstrating the essential roles that streams and wetlands play in maintaining water quality, recharging groundwater, reducing flooding, supporting wildlife, and sustaining communities. The result will be more pollution, more flooding, more costly and contaminated tap water, diminished wildlife and habitat, fewer fish, and the loss of the beauty of America's wonderful water resources.
"The Great Lakes sustain a $6 trillion economy, contain more than 90% of North America's supply of surface freshwater, and provide drinking water for more than 40 million people in the United States and Canada. All of North America's waterfowl depend on wetlands, while half of the continent's other migratory birds use them at some point during their annual life cycles. Ninety percent of fish caught by American recreational anglers need wetlands for shelter, food supply, spawning, and nursery areas. According to the National Park Service, between 60% and 90% of U.S. commercial fisheries depend on wetlands.
"EPA and the Army Corps once again propose a major narrowing of the scope of waters of the United States covered by the Clean Water Act without seriously acknowledging or analyzing any of these potential impacts, which merely scratch the surface of the critical values that would be harmed by the new proposal, if adopted."
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Original text here: https://elpc.org/news/epa-army-corps-re-proposed-polluted-water-rule-will-gut-federal-protections-in-great-lakes-region-and-beyond/
[Category: Environment]
Earthjustice: Trump Administration Proposes Regulations to Rubber Stamp Drilling in Alaska's Western Arctic
SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sept. 5 -- Earthjustice issued the following news release on Sept. 4, 2026:
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Trump Administration Proposes Regulations to Rubber Stamp Drilling in Alaska's Western Arctic
The regulations proposed at the request of the oil industry seek to greenlight potentially massive new oil development in sensitive areas of the Western Arctic
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Anchorage, AK -- Today, the Trump administration released a proposed rule to speed up permitting of new oil and gas projects in the Western Arctic by eliminating environmental reviews and gutting the public comment process. The administration
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SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sept. 5 -- Earthjustice issued the following news release on Sept. 4, 2026:
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Trump Administration Proposes Regulations to Rubber Stamp Drilling in Alaska's Western Arctic
The regulations proposed at the request of the oil industry seek to greenlight potentially massive new oil development in sensitive areas of the Western Arctic
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Anchorage, AK -- Today, the Trump administration released a proposed rule to speed up permitting of new oil and gas projects in the Western Arctic by eliminating environmental reviews and gutting the public comment process. The administrationis implementing the rule at the request of the Alaska Oil and Gas Association, which submitted a petition asking for the regulations in May.
The public has 60 days to comment on this proposed rule.
The move seeks to give the oil industry free reign to pursue projects without the public process and environmental review long afforded by the National Environmental Policy Act requirements. Under these rules new projects in the Western Arctic including in Teshekpuk Lake, the Colville River and other special areas that have long been off limits to development could be fast-tracked. The rule aims to require Interior to approve new projects as massive as Willow within a 60-day limit of the oil company submitting its application, without any additional environmental study or public process.
In addition to proposing to shield future development projects from environmental review and public input, Interior is also shielding the impact of this proposal from public input. It has made only part of its analysis of this new rule public and has made no commitment even to disclose the environmental effects of the new rule to the public until it adopts the rule.
The Western Arctic is the largest single piece of public land largely still untouched by development in the United States. It provides vital habitat for polar bears, caribou, and migratory birds from around the globe, and supports local Indigenous communities. It is also facing unprecedented threats from climate change.
Simultaneously, according to news reports, the Department of Interior is currently also working on what is known as a "categorical exclusion" to similarly skip legally required environmental review and public comment to greenlight oil and gas exploration activities in the Western Arctic. Activities covered under the categorical exclusion could include seismic testing and drilling for exploration, as well as the construction of ice roads, airstrips and other infrastructure, plus the transportation of heavy equipment across sensitive Arctic tundra.
If these new regulations proposed by the oil industry and the categorical exclusion are both finalized, it would allow oil companies to pursue exploration and development drilling with no new environmental reviews or public input.
"What we're seeing here is a concerted attack by the Trump administration to greenlight oil and gas drilling in the Western Arctic while ignoring the harm it will cause to these irreplaceable public lands and also the government's obligation to protect these lands for wildlife and future generations," said Earthjustice Attorney Erik Grafe. "These are large-scale, industrial activities that cause permanent damage to sensitive Arctic ecosystems, nearby communities, and the climate. The administration's proposal flaunts basic environmental laws meant to protect land, wildlife, and people and allow for fully informed decision making."
These proposed management changes follow a series of actions taken by the Trump administration since January 2025 to maximize oil and gas drilling in the Western Arctic. These actions include repealing protections for Special Areas, changing the management plan for the Western Arctic to allow oil and gas drilling on 82% of the 23-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, and then holding a lease sale in March 2026 auctioning off more than a million acres of ecologically sensitive lands in the Western Arctic to oil companies.
Background
The 23-million-acre Reserve in the Western Arctic is one of the most biologically, ecologically, and culturally significant tracts of public land in the United States. Its diverse habitats range from tundra and wetlands to mountain foothills, grassy uplands, riparian areas, and river deltas. The region is home to iconic and imperiled wildlife species like polar bears and seals that depend on sea ice. It provides globally significant habitat for millions of migratory birds and for Alaska's massive caribou herds.
The Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act of 1976 recognized the importance of the Western Arctic for wildlife and migratory birds including animals protected under the Endangered Species Act, and for the cultural practices and food security of Indigenous communities. The act requires the BLM to assure adequate mitigation of harm from oil and gas activities, and "maximum protection" of the fragile tundra, birds, wildlife and other unique resources within the Reserve when it allows exploration or drilling in special areas. When Congress authorized leasing and oil extraction in 1980, it again directed the federal government to assure the protection of the Western Arctic's ecological and cultural resources.
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Additional Resources
* Related case documents & news (https://earthjustice.org/library?_case=western-arctic-oil-gas-drilling)
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About Earthjustice
Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit environmental law organization. We wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people's health, to preserve magnificent places and wildlife, to advance clean energy, and to combat climate change. We are here because the earth needs a good lawyer.
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Original text here: https://earthjustice.org/press/2026/trump-administration-proposes-regulations-to-rubber-stamp-drilling-in-alaskas-western-arctic
[Category: Environment]
Alliance for the Great Lakes: Victory! Invasive Carp Barrier Construction Resumes
CHICAGO, Illinois, Sept. 5 -- The Alliance for the Great Lakes issued the following news:
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President's Message
Victory! Invasive Carp Barrier Construction Resumes
September 4, 2026
Joel Brammeier, President & CEO
I'm writing with good news.
Construction is resuming on a critical project to stop invasive carp from entering the Great Lakes. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had abruptly halted work on the Brandon Road project in late July without explanation or warning.
With your support, we immediately stepped up to lead the call to get construction moving again and quickly made Brandon
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CHICAGO, Illinois, Sept. 5 -- The Alliance for the Great Lakes issued the following news:
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President's Message
Victory! Invasive Carp Barrier Construction Resumes
September 4, 2026
Joel Brammeier, President & CEO
I'm writing with good news.
Construction is resuming on a critical project to stop invasive carp from entering the Great Lakes. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had abruptly halted work on the Brandon Road project in late July without explanation or warning.
With your support, we immediately stepped up to lead the call to get construction moving again and quickly made BrandonRoad a regional priority.
We called for construction to restart and then helped bring together more than a dozen other Great Lakes organizations to demand action. Behind the scenes, we met with Great Lakes legislators, coordinated with regional partners, and worked to build pressure in Washington. And last month when the Illinois Department of Natural Resources announced that juvenile invasive carp were discovered a mere 80 miles from Lake Michigan - closer than ever before - we sounded the alarm. We kept up the pressure publicly by speaking out in the media and making the stakes clear.
The overwhelming response from the entire region shows that we are, and will continue to be, united in support of this critical project. People from across the political spectrum and throughout the Great Lakes came together to demand that this project move forward - the bipartisan Congressional Great Lakes Task Force, the Great Lakes states, anglers, boaters, skilled construction workers, environmental organizations, and countless fellow Great Lakers.
That united response mattered, and now, construction is moving again. But we cannot let up. Invasive carp would cause irreversible ecological and economic damage if they reach the Great Lakes, threatening the region's $5.1 billion fishing and $16 billion recreational boating industries. The Brandon Road project includes a suite of deterrents to stop these carp from entering the Great Lakes via a chokepoint on the Illinois River. We simply cannot afford any further disruption.
That's why we'll continue leading the fight to ensure the project stays on track - both at the construction site and in Washington, D.C. We get results when we speak out together, which is why we'll need you by our side as the project moves forward. We'll be watching and pushing to make sure construction continues, funding is provided, and the lakes are protected.
Thanks for your support, which makes this critical work possible.
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Original text here: https://greatlakes.org/2026/09/victory-invasive-carp-barrier-construction-resumes/
[Category: Environment]
