3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (897+ words) The federal deadline to begin building the Sweetheart Lake hydroelectric project south of Juneau, Alaska, passed on Sept. 8 with the developer's request for more time still pending. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission published notice of Juneau Hydropower Inc.'s request…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (803+ words) Four Environmental Protection Agency notices published in the Federal Register on September 9 give the public formal notice of air permitting actions on tribal lands in Arizona and New Mexico. Some of the decisions being noticed were made more than a…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1070+ words) Companies drilling for oil and gas inside national wildlife refuges must tell the federal government within 24 hours whenever their operations injure or kill fish, wildlife, or endangered or threatened plants. That requirement, along with the rest of the reporting regime…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (928+ words) Federal energy regulators have opened the window in which Wyoming residents can shape what a pipeline environmental review actually examines, and it closes at 5 p.m. Eastern Time on October 1. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a scoping notice on September 4 for…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1057+ words) Federal wildlife managers have proposed keeping supplemental winter feeding in place at the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and residents, hunters, and landowners have until October 13 to put a comment on the record. For households in Teton County…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (914+ words) The National Marine Fisheries Service has opened a public comment period on an application from BBC Natural History and Factual Productions Ltd. to film gray seals at Monomoy Island off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, using both ground crews and drones. Written…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (636+ words) Before a rover reaches Mars or an astronaut walks on the Moon, the mission is rehearsed on Earth, on ground chosen because it resembles the destination. Cinder fields stand in for regolith. Impact craters stand in for impact craters. Lava…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (677+ words) The National Marine Fisheries Service will convene a two-day scientific peer review in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, on September 22 and 23 to evaluate stock assessments for American plaice and Gulf of Maine haddock, according to a notice published in the Federal Register....

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (980+ words) The layers, called sporadic E, form roughly 60 miles up from the vaporized remains of burned-up meteors. When one appears, radio signals intended for space can bounce back toward the ground instead. Until this mission, in-place measurements had come from a…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1003+ words) NOAA Fisheries has proposed renewing a permit that would let a contractor finish pile driving at the Seward cruise ship passenger dock, authorizing an estimated 298 instances of harassment across eight marine mammal species in Resurrection Bay. Fifteen of those fall…...