by FSEEE | Feb 2, 2023 | In the News, Victory
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland signed a mineral withdrawal order protecting the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Superior National Forest from sulfide-ore copper mining. Sulfide-ore copper mining generates waste rock full of sulfates, which, when exposed to...
by FSEEE | Jan 29, 2023 | In the News, Victory
The Department of Agriculture finalized protections for the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest. The final rule, announced Jan. 25, repeals the Trump Administration’s 2020 Alaska Roadless Rule, restoring protections...
by FSEEE | Apr 6, 2022 | In the News
Reporting for the Associated Press, Jessica Gresko writes that the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated a Trump-era Clean Water Act rule today. The rule “curtails the power of states and Native American tribes to block pipelines and other energy projects that can...
by FSEEE | Dec 4, 2021 | In the News, Victory
As reported by E&E News, “The developer of an Oregon liquefied natural gas export terminal told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission … it would not move forward with the embattled … Jordan Cove project.” The project would have carried...
by FSEEE | Nov 21, 2021 | Fire Truth, FSEEE in the News, In the News
Noting that President Biden’s infrastructure bill allocates $3.3 billion for things like firefighter raises, prescribed fire and defending communities against wildfire, Kylie Mohr contacted FSEEE Executive Director Andy Stahl for an article in High Country News....
