Tim Pearce | May 14, 2019 – The Daily Caller Three environmental groups sued the federal government on Monday to block the renewal of a 10-year grazing permit for Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond, The Oregonian reports. Western Watersheds Project, the Center for Biological Diversity and WildEarth Guardians filed suit against the Bureau of…
Making the same arguments against the North Dakota Access Pipeline, the Associated Press reports environmentalists and native American tribes are suing to stop Hudbay Minerals Inc. of Toronto in federal court from building an open put copper mine in the Santa Rita Mountains of southeastern Arizona. The opposition groups claim, according to the AP, the…
By Hunter Pearl, Institute for Energy Research “In my last article I discussed atmospheric trust litigation (ATL), the latest crusade among radical environmentalists to impose through the courts what they could not pass through the ballot box. This coordinated campaign includes using child plaintiffs to sue the federal government to adopt their desired climate change…
A California Jury has awarded a plaintiff almost $300 million dollars, agreeing with Edwin Hardeman’s claim that his exposure to the glyphosate-based pesticide Roundup gave him cancer. According to Reuters, this is the second jury trial Bayer has lost and, unfortunately, more are on the way. Over 11,000 liability lawsuits have been filed against Bayer…
A federal judge in Chicago allowed a lawsuit to proceed against former President Barack Obama’s $500 million Presidential Center today. Three environmentalists with the group Protect Our Parks and other opponents are involved in litigation to prevent the construction. According to the Washington Examiner, the plaintiffs assert in their lawsuit that the city of Jackson…
Last week a coalition of 10 environmentalist groups filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Trump Administration in attempt to force so-called factory farms in flooded areas of North and South Carolina affected by Hurricane Florence to inform federal and local officials of emissions from farm animals. According to The Daily Caller, the lawsuit…
Despite being de-listed from the Endangered Species List by the US Fish and Wildlife Service in 2017, and its population growing almost sixfold after 42 years, a federal court has delayed a grizzly bear hunt that was to take place in Wyoming and Idaho Saturday. According to The Daily Caller, environmentalist and native Indian groups…
