Environmentalists won reinstatement Friday of a legal challenge to the U.S. Navy’s use of sonar, which the groups say harms whales, walruses, seals and dolphins.

Opening the Courtroom Door
Environmentalists won reinstatement Friday of a legal challenge to the U.S. Navy’s use of sonar, which the groups say harms whales, walruses, seals and dolphins.
The Navy’s downtown waterfront $1.3 billion development project cleared its potentially last environmental hurdle Wednesday with a federal appeals court approval. The 9th U.S. Circuit
Alameda County developer James Tong, and his Wildlife Management firm will pay $1 million in restitution for securities fraud and wildlife violations, in a sentence
Environmentalists have sued to block an asphalt plant in Mendocino County from what they argue is illegal pollution of a tributary to the Eel River
A Washoe County environmental group has failed in its effort to delay a six-lane highway project over Truckee Meadows wetlands near Reno in the group’s
Federal environmental regulators and conservation groups fought Tuesday to win reinstatement of critical polar bear habitat designations on Alaska’s North Slope after a federal judge