Appeals Court Confirms Final Environmental Assessment Sufficient in Hawaiʻi’s Fight to Save Endangered Birds

Court Allows Environmental Racism Lawsuit in Louisiana to Proceed

A federal appellate court has ruled that a civil rights lawsuit alleging environmental racism in Louisiana’s St. James Parish may proceed. The suit accuses the parish of discriminatory land-use practices by concentrating polluting petrochemical facilities in predominantly Black neighborhoods. The post Court Allows Environmental Racism Lawsuit in Louisiana to Proceed appeared first on African American News and Issues.

Appeals Court Confirms Final Environmental Assessment Sufficient in Hawaiʻi’s Fight to Save Endangered Birds

The Intermediate Court of Appeals (ICA) has ruled in favor of the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) and the American Bird Conservancy, represented by the Center for Biological Diversity, by affirming the Environmental Court’s ruling that the Final Environmental Assessment (FEA) prepared for a project to use the Incompatible Insect Technique (IIT) to control mosquito born avian malaria on east Maui was sufficient. Avian malaria had …