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March 03, 2026
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must analyze how its revised water quality standards for cadmium would affect endangered species, a split Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday, upholding a conservation organization's victory in a lawsuit over the agency's guidance tripling the levels of the heavy metal allowed in U.S. waters.
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March 03, 2026
The U.S. House voted Tuesday to direct land management agencies to study how they can ease the process for allowing broadband infrastructure to run through public lands.
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March 03, 2026
Two Washington tribes are looking to temporarily block the federal government from awarding millions in tribal hatchery grants to 27 Indigenous nations, arguing that they and the Pacific salmon will suffer irreparable harm if the money is disbursed without their communities being able to apply for the funding.
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March 03, 2026
An Oklahoma federal judge has denied a bid by the Osage Nation for an order that would vacate a decades-old Tenth Circuit decision that determined its reservation boundaries had been disestablished, saying the district court is no longer active in the case and must continue to rely on precedent.
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March 02, 2026
While the Federal Communications Commission is looking for regulations to get rid of, one organization said it has a list of options for the agency to consider when it comes to the E-Rate subsidy program.
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March 02, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission heard from the lobbying sphere more than 100 times in February on concerns ranging from the need for wireless spectrum to next-generation 911, media ownership rules, access to Lifeline phone service and more.
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March 02, 2026
A Wisconsin school district is asking the Seventh Circuit to reject an appeal by a group of homeowners that claims the Menominee Indian Tribe joined forces with it and other municipalities to increase their tax burden, arguing that the property owners' claims are not redressable in the federal court.
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March 02, 2026
A group of nonprofits and one Michigan tenant claimed on Monday that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development violated federal law by rescinding a 30-day owed rent notice rule without prior public notice or a comment period.
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March 02, 2026
A Wisconsin federal judge paused a June 16 deadline requiring Enbridge Energy to shut down a portion of its Line 5 pipeline on Wisconsin tribal lands pending a Seventh Circuit decision, citing concern over energy prices, local economies and foreign relations with Canada.
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March 02, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it will not review a Ninth Circuit decision upholding a $134 million restitution award for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in a long-running case over a tribal lending program that ultimately lost millions for lender CashCall Inc.
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February 27, 2026
A North Dakota state judge Friday entered final judgment in favor of Energy Transfer, finalizing a $345 million defamation and property damage verdict against Greenpeace in a dispute over the Dakota Access pipeline protests, according to a statement from Greenpeace.
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February 27, 2026
A Washington state judge expressed reluctance on Friday to grant Exxon and other oil giants' request to pause two tribal lawsuits alleging a decades-long campaign to downplay the harm of fossil fuels until the U.S. Supreme Court weighs in on the viability of climate torts in a Colorado case.
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February 27, 2026
The Trump administration has urged the Ninth Circuit to uphold the dismissal of a lawsuit by youths challenging President Donald Trump's energy-related emergency orders, saying the courts can't be used to micromanage U.S. energy policy.
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February 27, 2026
A California federal judge has broadened an injunction barring the U.S. Department of Agriculture from cutting off Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funding to 21 states and the District of Columbia, finding the states are likely to succeed in challenging the department's renewed demand for sensitive program data as unlawful.
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February 27, 2026
The federal government is asking an Alaska district court to deny a bid by several Indigenous communities to vacate a permit associated with a placer gold mining project in the Bonanza Channel near Nome, saying its decision falls well within the "broad zone of reasonableness" under Supreme Court precedent.
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February 27, 2026
New York's Seneca Nation has received approval from the U.S. Department of the Interior to place more than 200 acres of its ancestral homelands into restricted fee status.
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February 26, 2026
Florida admitted to a federal appellate court that it likely won't be reimbursed for an Everglades detention center used to support the Trump administration's strict immigration policy, even though last year the state's governor told the public that the federal government would fund the facility's construction.
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February 26, 2026
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and 17 domestic violence coalitions are fighting in Rhode Island federal court over the groups' bid for a temporary restraining order to block the government from cutting off grant funds that don't comply with President Donald Trump's diversity, equity and inclusion rules.
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February 26, 2026
A group of California residents and a nonprofit organization are appealing a Washington federal judge's denial of an attempt to block the construction of a casino owned by the Ione Band of Miwok Indians, following his recent order denying their motion for a preliminary injunction.
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February 26, 2026
A Utah senator has started the formal process of overturning a resource management plan designed to protect an Indigenous national monument by adding a Government Accountability Office opinion on the 1.9-million-acre site to the Congressional Record that could fast-track a vote on the controversial endeavor.
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February 26, 2026
An Oregon federal judge has ordered tailored changes to hydropower dam operations in the Columbia River Basin to protect endangered salmon and steelhead, saying that as a decades-long dispute continues, the guaranteed tribal treaty resource is "disappearing from the landscape."
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February 26, 2026
The government is seeking summary judgment in a lawsuit alleging the U.S. Forest Service failed to consider emissions from its logging program's anticipated timber sales, telling a D.C. federal judge that the plaintiffs' claims are moot after the 2025 budget reconciliation bill set new goals directly.
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February 26, 2026
Hawaii's attorney general and health department director are urging a federal court to throw out a challenge to new hemp regulations, arguing that they have immunity under the 11th Amendment and that the regulations don't conflict with the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, also known as the Farm Bill.
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February 25, 2026
A coalition of states has urged a Washington federal court to bar the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from clawing back roughly $3 billion in federal funding for solar energy projects, arguing it can't rescind funds already obligated.
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February 25, 2026
The Ninth Circuit has ruled that BNSF Railway Co. cannot be held strictly liable under Montana law for transporting asbestos-containing vermiculite and letting vermiculite dust collect on tracks and its railyard, upending the $8 million jury verdict awarded to the estates of two former Libby, Montana, residents who developed mesothelioma.