States, tribes get partial victory in Columbia River Basin salmon battle
Under a partial injunction, dams along the Columbia and Snake rivers must lower reservoir levels and increase fish spill.
Europe’s top court says disturbing individual birds isn’t enough to block an Austrian road — what matters is whether populations suffer long-term damage.
Under a partial injunction, dams along the Columbia and Snake rivers must lower reservoir levels and increase fish spill.
Coastal black-throated green warblers have lost 90% of its population in the last century. But conservationists say federal protections would give the songbird "a fighting chance."
Abnormal levels of groundwater and soil pollution were detected in 2021, with blood samples confirming hundreds of people living nearby had been exposed to very high concentrations of one such substance.
JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi federal court approved a 12% water bill hike in Jackson, Mississippi, a “survival measure” for a city whose water and sewage pipes and treatment plants are stressed to emergency levels and have reached the end of $150 million in federal subsidies. The 12% rate increase will bring in $20.4 million in annual revenue for the court-appointed interim third-party manager of the water system, who “must aggressively pursue needed structural reforms to prevent further financial strain on the rate-paying public.”
Germany's capital wants to host the Summer Olympics. The city's sporting culture and history, alongside its cash-strapped status, have Olympic opinions divided.
The Tour de France has come within fractions of a degree of breaching high-risk heat limits in recent years.
Despite labeling and packaging suggesting otherwise, clear Hefty trash bags are not recyclable at most Arizona recycling plants.