MELBOURNE, Australia, Oct. 30 -- The Australian Conservation Foundation issued the following statement: * * * Having reviewed documents summarising proposed changes to Australia's environment law, the Australian Conservation Foundation's National Biodiversity Policy Adviser Brendan Sydes said: "Three years to the day since Graeme Samuel delivered to the Morrison government his scathing review of Australia's environment law, ACF urges the Albanese government to make reform of this law a high p  more

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Oct. 30 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news release: Participants in the 28th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) should urge the UAE, the host, to end its repression of independent civil society and should make a commitment to phasing out fossil fuels, Human Rights Watch said today in issuing a question and answer document about the meeting. The conference will begin on December 30, 2023, and will be held in Dubai. "This isn't a climate confere  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- The Interior Inspector General issued the following summary report (No. 19-0371) on Sept. 14, 2023, entitled "Failure to Pay Federal Coal Royalties:" * * * The OIG investigated allegations that a coal operator and its associated companies failed to pay mineral royalties owed to the Federal Government on coal produced from Federal leases in Wyoming and Kentucky. We found that the subject company and its affiliates knowingly failed to pay the Office of Natural Resources (  more