Vela warns of wall’s impact

U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela, D-Brownsville, is pleading with Democratic leadership to weigh the environmental impact the Trump Administration's proposed border wall may create before considering its funding. In a letter to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, Vela and U.S. Reps.

California environmental, political leaders fire back at Trump…

California environmental groups and Democratic Party leaders blasted the Trump administration's proposal Thursday to reopen areas off the state's coastline to new offshore oil drilling lease sales for the first time since 1984. The plan proposes putting seven new California sites in deep federal waters up for sale to oil producers, among a total of 47 new parcels identified nationwide.

US appeals court: Feds erred in Hawaii fishery expansion

Federal agencies were wrong to allow Hawaii's longline swordfish industry to expand fishing efforts while allowing the hooking or entangling of more endangered sea turtles, a U.S. appeals court ruled. The panel of judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that the National Marine Fisheries Service failed to consider scientific data that showed the loggerhead turtle population would significantly decline when it set limits for the industry.

State and Fond du Lac band of Chippewa reach fishing and wildlife agreement

ARE YOU A WRITER? If you are interested in contributing content to ONN, please download our writer's contract pdf. Governor Mark Dayton and Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Chairman Kevin Dupuis today announced that the State of Minnesota and the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa have formalized an agreement to manage the Band's fishing, hunting and gathering rights in areas of northern Minnesota that were established in an 1854 Treaty.

Fault Rep. Norcross for hydro, Keystone votes; GOP faith in…

On Nov. 8, the House of Representatives passed the "Hydropower Policy Modernization Act of 2017" , a bill to streamline the licensing process for hydroelectric facilities. The word "modernization" in the title is a euphemism for deregulation, exactly as it was in the "Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999" -- which repealed Depression-era banking regulations that had separated consumer banks from riskier investment banking.

Trump halts big-game trophy decision

President Donald Trump abruptly reversed his administration's Thursday decision to allow elephants shot for sport in Zimbabwe and Zambia to be imported back to the United States as trophies, saying in a tweet Friday night that he was putting the decision "on hold" until further review. "Put big game trophy decision on hold until such time as I review all conservation facts," Trump wrote on Twitter.