WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 [Category: Energy] -- The American Petroleum Institute issued the following news release: * * * API, States File Lawsuit to Reverse New Restrictions on Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Development WASHINGTON, January 17, 2025 -- The American Petroleum Institute today joined with the states of Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi in filing a challenge to the Biden administration's ban on new oil and natural gas leasing across millions of acres of federal waters.   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 [Category: Environment] -- The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation issued the following news release: * * * NFWF Announces $6 Million in Grants to Help Communities Impacted by Hurricanes and Natural Disasters WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 16, 2025) - The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Marine Debris Program today announced just over $6 million in grants to remove marine debris caused by hurricanes an  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (TNSres) -- The Violence Policy Center issued the following news release: * * * Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, New Mexico, and Alaska Have Highest Gun Death Rates in the Nation Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Hawaii Have Lowest Gun Death Rates in the Nation * * * New data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that states with the highest rates of overall gun death in the nation are those with weak gun violence pre  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (TNSres) -- The Wilderness Society issued the following news release: * * * Report recognizes development's harm to caribou and need for new Special Areas * * * ANCHORAGE, ALASKA (Jan. 16, 2025) - The federal Bureau of Land Management took important steps for conservation in the Western Arctic today with the release of a report (https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-takes-steps-protect-subsistence-western-arctic) recognizing the harm that oil development c  more

FALMOUTH, Massachusetts, Jan. 17 (TNSres) -- Woodwell Climate Research Center, formerly the Woods Hole Research Center, issued the following update: Ecological warning lights have blinked on across the Arctic over the last 40 years, according to new research, and many of the fastest-changing areas are clustered in Siberia, the Canadian Northwest Territories, and Alaska. The analysis of the rapidly warming Arctic-boreal region, published in Geophysical Research Letters this week, provides a zoom  more