GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, Dec. 7 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on Dec. 5, 2024: * * * North Dakota Case Could Strip Federal Environmental Agency's Authority Written by Tom Steward There's a lot more on the line for a powerful federal environmental agency than anyone anticipated when 21 states filed a legal case in U.S. District Court in Bismarck earlier this year. The  more

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, Nov. 29 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary: * * * North Dakotans Support More Fossil Fuel Production Written by Sarah Montalbano The North Dakota News Cooperative commissioned a poll of 501 North Dakotans to determine their views on energy production. Surprise, surprise: North Dakotans overwhelmingly support continued coal and oil production withi  more

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minnesota, Dec. 5 -- The Center of the American Experiment, a civic and educational organization that says it creates and advocates policies, issued the following commentary on Dec. 4, 2024: * * * What Should Be the Federal Government's Role in Permitting? Written by Sarah Montalbano The U.S. District Court of Appeals for North Dakota has heard Iowa v. Council on Environmental Quality, which challenges a new rule that transforms permitting "into a substantive set of requiremen  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 [Category: Environment] -- The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation issued the following news release: HOUSTON (December 3, 2024) The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and ConocoPhillips, today announced more than $1.2 million in grants that will identify and improve key bird habitats across four states. The grants will leverage $560,000 in matching contributions for a total conservation impact of $1.8 millio  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 5 (TNSres) -- The Union of Concerned Scientists issued the following news release on Dec. 3, 2024: * * * Wetland Loss Could Cost Upper Midwest $22 Billion Annually in Flood Damage * * * Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court stripped protections from wetlands in its Sackett v. EPA ruling, putting almost all nontidal wetlands at risk. New research from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) found the decision puts 30 million acres of wetlands in the Upper Midwest (I  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 5 (TNSres) -- The Union of Concerned Scientists issued the following news release on Dec. 3, 2024: * * * Wetland Loss Could Cost North Dakota $1.67 Billion Annually in Flood Damage * * * Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court stripped protections from wetlands in its Sackett v. EPA ruling, putting almost all nontidal wetlands at risk. New research from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) found the decision puts more than 2.2 million acres of wetlands in North Da  more