SAN FRANCISCO, California, Nov. 11 [Category: Environment] -- Earthjustice issued the following news release: Anchorage, AK Four tribes in the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta region of Southwest Alaska and Cook Inletkeeper, an Alaska environmental group, are challenging key state permits for the Donlin Gold Mine in two separate court cases. The Alaska Supreme Court in Anchorage has scheduled back-to-back court hearings for the cases on Tuesday, November 12. The public, including reporters, may listen to  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 [Category: Environment] -- The Defenders of Wildlife issued the following news release: Conservation groups are outraged today by a Department of the Interior's proposal released today to trade away congressionally-designated wilderness lands within the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge to allow construction of a road. The Secretary of the Interior does not have the authority to privatize refuge wilderness lands to allow roads, and to do so undermines the purposes of the Alas  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Nov. 13 [Category: Environment] -- Earthjustice issued the following news release: Hooper Bay, AK The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) today released a draft supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) that paves the way for an ecologically-destructive land swap and road in Alaska that would slice through a critically important wildlife refuge for migratory bird species. These migratory birds, particularly Pacific black brant and emperor geese, are critic  more