JUNEAU, Alaska, April 13 -- Alaska Attorney General Treg R. Taylor issued the following news release on April 12, 2023: The U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota today issued a preliminary injunction against the federal government from implementing a new rule redefining Waters of the United States, also known as WOTUS. The flawed rule would act as another bar to landowners (including the State) who wish to improve or develop their land even if that property sits miles away from a  more

DENVER, Colorado, April 14 -- The Colorado Senate Democrats issued the following news release on April 13, 2023: Legislation sponsored by Majority Leader Dominick Moreno, D-Commerce City, and Senator Jessie Danielson, D-Wheat Ridge, to ensure protections for Native American children in cases of adoption and guardianship passed the Senate State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee today. The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA) is a federal law that governs the removal and placement of Am  more

GOLDEN, Colorado, April 12 (TNSpar) -- Colorado School of Mines issued the following news: A promising technology for the destruction of so-called "forever chemicals" developed by Colorado School of Mines researchers has been licensed by a cleantech startup that aims to use the Mines-patented process to halt the growing environmental and public health challenge posed by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. Aquagga, Inc., a Tacoma, Washington-based Public Benefit Corporation originally  more

JUNEAU, Alaska, April 14 (TNSres) -- The University of Alaska-Southeast issued the following news release on April 13, 2023: University of Alaska Southeast Social Science faculty Forest Haven was awarded her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California Irvine on December 2nd, 2022. Her dissertation committee chair was Dr. Kris Peterson, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Haven's dissertation, "Alaska Native People, Traditional Foods, and the Settl  more