"The New Jersey Supreme Court has upheld a controversial $225 million settlement between the state and ExxonMobil that was challenged by environmental groups that said it was far too low for the damage caused by the oil giant."
"The fate of one of Alaska's largest and most contentious wetland projects may rest with a former congressional staffer who once said some nasty things about wetlands."
"For both humans and wildlife, the Republican reauthorization of the Farm Bill would usher in the weakest federal protections against pesticide abuse since Silent Spring."
"Florida’s mangroves have been forced into a hasty retreat by sea level rise and now face being drowned, imperiling coastal communities and the prized Everglades wetlands, researchers have found."
"Environmental group American Rivers released its annual list of the USA's top 10 'most endangered' rivers Tuesday, and this year, the top "dishonor" goes to the Big Sunflower River, a tributary of the Mississippi River in the South."
"With more than 90 percent of California's wetlands gone, some unlikely bedfellows are working together to bring habitat back."
"Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, who has been methodically weakening air pollution rules over the past year, is now taking control of key decision-making on the protection of streams and wetlands from the agency's regional administrators, an internal memo shows."
"When state regulators tried to get the future president to address a few environmental problems on two golf courses some years ago, little did they know they’d be treated to a multi-year lesson in how he handles regulatory challenges."
"For the community of Jean Lafitte, the question is less whether it will succumb to the sea than when — and how much the public should invest in artificially extending its life."
"Unless people intervene, U.S. Pacific Coast marshes could vanish as the ocean rises, eliminating wildlife habitat, storm surge protection and carbon storage."
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