Category Archives: Environment
US ‘clean energy’ loan for Australian plant in Louisiana
VIDALIA, La. (AP) — An Australian company’s Louisiana subsidiary can get up to $107 million in U.S. Department of Energy loans to expand a plant that produces materials for electric car batteries the department said Monday.
Virginia wind farm job claims questioned by state regulators
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — As Virginia-based Dominion Energy seeks to build what it calls the country's largest offshore wind farm in the Atlantic Ocean, the company and its supporters have touted the economic development opportunities expected to accompany ...
Alaska weighs taking over part of federal permitting program
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska lawmakers are considering a request by Gov. Mike Dunleavy's administration that the state take over part of a federal environmental permitting program, though some members of the Senate's budget-writing committee have expre...
Bridget Brink named as US ambassador to Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bridget Brink, a veteran foreign service officer who has spent most of her career in the shadow of the former Soviet Union, has been nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine
Surge of desert surf parks stirs questions in dry California
Hours from the California coast, surfers are hoping one of the next spots where they can catch a wave is in the desert. At least four large
Maine lawmakers adjourn with no action on tribal sovereignty
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — In a stinging disappointment for Native American tribes in Maine, the state's Legislature adjourned Monday evening without taking action on a historic proposal to expand tribal sovereignty rights.
B.C. man says old-growth protests escalating after brief hospitalization
NANAIMO, B.C. — A British Columbia man says he was briefly hospitalized on the 24th day of a hunger strike to protest old-growth logging but plans to go without food until the end of the month before joining others in
B.C. man wanting public meeting has ‘death-watch monitors’ on Day 23 of hunger strike
NANAIMO, B.C. — A 68-year-old activist says "death-watch monitors" were ensuring his safety on the 23rd day of a hunger strike over old-growth logging practices in British Columbia. Howard Breen said Saturday that he stopped drinking liquids two days e...
Thousands protest plan to raze German village for coal mine
BERLIN (AP) — Thousands of people protested Saturday against plans to bulldoze a village in western Germany to expand a coal mine that environmental activists say should be shut down, not enlarged.
US military drops appeal of Hawaii order to drain fuel tanks
HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. government on Friday dropped its appeals of a Hawaii order requiring it to remove fuel from a massive military fuel storage facility that leaked petroleum into the Navy's water system at Pearl Harbor last year.