SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 28 [Category: Environment] -- Earthjustice issued the following news release: Missoula, MT -- A Montana District Court ruling today recognizes that grizzly bears are indeed impacted by existing roadways that do not receive motorized use, which the agencies failed to consider when allowing increased roadbuilding in the Flathead National Forest. Grizzly bears have learned to avoid roads -- even closed roads -- and are often displaced from habitat that features them  more

SACRAMENTO, California, June 29 (TNSres) -- Equality California issued the following statement on June 28, 2024: * * * Equality California, the nation's largest statewide LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, released the following statement from Executive Director Tony Hoang in response to the release of the 2023 Hate Crime in California report by the Office of California Attorney General Rob Bonta: "The report released today by the Attorney General reveals that, although overall hate incidents   more

WASHINGTON, June 29 -- Equality California issued the following statement on June 28, 2024: * * * Equality California, the nation's largest statewide LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, issued the following statement from Executive Director Tony Hoang in response to today's rulings by the United States Supreme Court in the case Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council and the case City of Grants Pass v. Johnson: On Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council: "Today's 6-3 ruling will have  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 29 -- Equal Rights Advocates issued the following statement on June 27, 2024: * * * A statement from Equal Rights Advocates Executive Director Noreen Farrell: The Supreme Court has refused to rule on the merits of whether the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act preempts Idaho's extreme abortion ban in Moyle v. United States. Instead, in a 6-3 decision, the Court ruled that it should not have stepped in to stay a lower court injunction of the Idaho Defense  more

WASHINGTON, June 29 -- Clean Water Action issued the following news release: * * * The oil and gas industry has withdrawn their year and a half long, multimillion dollar effort to continue drilling near California communities * * * Big Oil has announced that they are withdrawing their referendum on SB 1137 (Gonzalez, Limon), ending their campaign to continue to sacrifice the health of our most vulnerable California communities for the sake of lining their pockets. SB 1137, as passed by the   more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, June 28 [Category: Environment] -- Earthjustice issued the following news release: Bismarck, ND -- Seven Tribal Nations, represented by Earthjustice and the Native American Rights Fund (NARF), filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota today to intervene in defense of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Tribal Reserved Rights Rule, after 12 states filed a lawsuit to dismantle it. The rule, finalized in May, formalizes a process   more