Saturday, August 29, 2015 at 12:00AM 
Duluth artist Dean Kegler has won the 2016 Minnesota Department of Natural Resources trout and salmon stamp contest with a painting of a brown trout.
The painting was selected by judges from among 12 submissions for the annual contest.
Saturday, August 29, 2015 at 12:00AM 
A federal judge has approved a request for a subpoena compelling a former Environmental Protection Agency official to explain his actions in the agency’s controversial decision to prevent a proposed gold mine from being built in southwestern Alaska.
U.S. District Judge H. Russel Holland signed off on the motion on Thursday in Anchorage, setting the stage for a potentially dramatic confrontation between former EPA biologist Phillip North and the would-be developers of the Pebble Mine.
LINK (via: The Washington Post)
EPA, Stop the Pebble Mine in Conservation, Environment, Mines Friday, August 28, 2015 at 12:02AM 
EPA vows to proceed.
U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson in Fargo issued a temporary injunction requested by North Dakota and 12 other states halting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers from regulating some small streams, tributaries and wetlands under the Clean Water Act.
Erickson, was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2003.
LINK (via:U.S. New & World Report)
EPA, here comes the judge in Conservation, Environment Friday, August 28, 2015 at 12:00AM There’s a growing movement to reevaluate dams, to figure out whether their purpose – for making electricity, controlling floods, recreation, or storing irrigation and drinking water – outweigh the challenges they pose for fish.
dam removal, damnation in Dams, Environment 
