WASHINGTON, June 16 (TNSgov) -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Utah issued the following news release on June 15, 2023: The Supreme Court today issued a landmark victory for tribal sovereignty by rejecting all the constitutional challenges to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), legislation that seeks to ensure that Native families stay together, and that Native children are raised by tribal members. As Justice Gorsuch's concurrence explains, this is a critical law designed to halt horri  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, June 15 (TNSgov) -- The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following news release on June 13, 2023: A coalition of Indigenous, climate, environmental justice and youth advocates urged the Department of Energy today to reject funding for the Western Interstate Hydrogen Hub, which is intended to rapidly expand hydrogen production in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. "Our BIPOC, low-income and youth communities are already facing the brunt of the climate cri  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, June 13 (TNSjou) -- North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences issued the following news release: A newly discovered plant-eating dinosaur may have been a species' "last gasp" during a period when Earth's warming climate forced massive changes to global dinosaur populations. The specimen, named Iani smithi after Janus, the two-faced Roman god of change, was an early ornithopod, a group of dinosaurs that ultimately gave rise to the more commonly known duckbill dinosaurs   more