Silver Falls in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. (Credit: KBIC Natural Resources Department)

“Our community is a fishing community:” Michigan tribe seeks to set its own water standards

The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, heavily reliant on fish, berries and wild rice, wants to join the 60 other US tribes who the feds have granted control over setting water regulations.

The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, on the shores of one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world, is petitioning the federal government to hand over control of setting water quality standards.

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Tribes have climate wisdom — and good reason not to share it

Tribes risk exploitation when sharing climate change solutions.

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Toxics

Columbia Riverkeeper calls for complete Hanford toxic waste cleanup

Columbia Riverkeeper report on Hanford says Department of Energy decisions to limit cleanup could limit future use by tribes and others.

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Gov. Brown orders major offensive against wildfire threat

Gov. Jerry Brown, alarmed by reports that climate change is dramatically increasing fire risk, on Thursday ordered an all-out attack by scientists, land managers, industry and the public on the dangerous conditions that helped spread last year's devastating wildfires.

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SUPREME COURT: Highways, salmon habitat collide in tribal treaty case

Washington state tomorrow will face off against the U.S. government and tribes as it attempts to overturn a court injunction forcing it to repair hundreds of culverts that are blocking salmon from reaching upstream habitat.

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Russell Jim dies. Yakama tribal elder fought for Hanford cleanup

Russell Jim, 82, a Yakama Nation elder has died. He was a leading advocate for cleanup of the Hanford nuclear reservation. The Yakamas and other tribes have treaty rights at the Hanford Site.

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Originals

Seneca Nation takes on Pittsburgh startup to defend the Allegheny River

Last month more than 100 Seneca Nation tribal members showed up at the monthly meeting of the local municipal authority in the small town of Coudersport, Pennsylvania, carrying protest signs and ceremonial drums.

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Final permit for controversial Michigan mine gets accepted. Tribe digs in.

The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality accepted the fourth and final permit required for the controversial Back Forty Mine to move forward.

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U.P. tribe wants to know: "When can we eat the fish?" Researchers try to answer

"When can we eat the fish?" That's what the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula wants to know.

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Can tiny houses halt the expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline?

Indigenous activists are using solar-powered tiny houses to block the proposed path of the oil pipeline across Secwepemcul'ecw territory. Could this become the Standing Rock of the North?

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Federal court orders Corps of Engineers & DAPL to upgrade monitoring following Keystone XL spill

A federal judge has ordered stepped-up monitoring of the Dakota Access pipeline following an oil spill from the Keystone XL pipeline last month.

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Defying tribes and public opinion, Trump slashes Utah national monuments by two million acres.

The president gutted Bears Ears and cut Grand Staircase-Escalante in half, but experts say he's on shaky legal ground.

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Trump vs. Bears Ears: Outraged native groups respond

The proclamation to remove more than a million acres from protection has been called everything from illegal to racist.

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Zinke rocked moccasins to celebrate Native cultures. But tribes are focused on his plans to rock Bears Ears

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke wore moccasins to celebrate native culture around the world. But Western tribes say his plan to dramatically shrink the Bears Ears National Monument will devastate their culture.

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“Our community is a fishing community:” Michigan tribe seeks to set its own water standards

The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, heavily reliant on fish, berries and wild rice, wants to join the 60 other US tribes who the feds have granted control over setting water regulations.

Tribes have climate wisdom — and good reason not to share it

Columbia Riverkeeper calls for complete Hanford toxic waste cleanup

Gov. Brown orders major offensive against wildfire threat

SUPREME COURT: Highways, salmon habitat collide in tribal treaty case

Russell Jim dies. Yakama tribal elder fought for Hanford cleanup

Seneca Nation takes on Pittsburgh startup to defend the Allegheny River

Final permit for controversial Michigan mine gets accepted. Tribe digs in.

U.P. tribe wants to know: "When can we eat the fish?" Researchers try to answer

Can tiny houses halt the expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline?

Federal court orders Corps of Engineers & DAPL to upgrade monitoring following Keystone XL spill

Defying tribes and public opinion, Trump slashes Utah national monuments by two million acres.

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Zinke rocked moccasins to celebrate Native cultures. But tribes are focused on his plans to rock Bears Ears

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Reduced lead trends in New Orleans soil and kids suggest prevention should expand outside the home

Study finds decreasing lead in topsoil coincides with reductions in children's blood levels, which suggests playing around the dirt may be an important source of the toxic for children

The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, heavily reliant on fish, berries and wild rice, wants to join the 60 other US tribes who the feds have granted control over setting water regulations.

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By keeping Americans focused on the climate benefits of gas vs. coal, industry seeks to delay a broader debate of the deficits of gas vs. renewables.

The bipartisan neglect of our National Parks

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Lessons from environmental and economic restoration efforts in the Ruhr Valley could help usher Appalachia into a new era.

Study finds decreasing lead in topsoil coincides with reductions in children's blood levels, which suggests playing around the dirt may be an important source of the toxic for children

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