Showing posts with label Environmentalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Environmentalism. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 02, 2021

USDA Delays Transfer of Sacred Apache Ceremonial Site

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As previously reported , last month an Arizona federal district court refused to enjoin a federal conveyance of a sacred Apache ceremonial g...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Cert. Filed By Catholic Order Objecting To Pipeline Approval

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Last Friday, a petition for certiorari ( full text ) was filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in Adorers of the Blood of Christ v. Federal Ener...
Saturday, October 14, 2017

New Delhi Reacts To Diwali Fireworks Ban

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Today's New York Times reports on the impact in New Delhi of a ruling by India's Supreme Court reinstating a ban, motivated by envi...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Court Says Environmentalism Is Not A Religion

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In  Krause v. Tulsa City-County Library Commission , (ND OK, Jan. 23, 2017), a Oklahoma federal district court dismissed plaintiff's com...
Wednesday, August 03, 2016

Unitarian Church Sues Saying It Has Religious Duty To Use Solar Panels

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RLUIPA Defense blog reported last week on a suit filed in late June in Massachusetts by a Unitarian church seeking to install solar panels ...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

Muslim Leaders Issue Declaration On Global Climate Change

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As reported by the Washington Post , last week Muslim leaders and scholars from 20 countries issued an Islamic Declaration on Global Climate...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

White House Honors Climate Faith Leaders

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RNS reports that on Monday the White House honored 12 "Climate Faith Leaders" as part of its Champions of Change program. The Whi...

9th Circuit: Indian Tribe's Challenge To California Geothermal Leases Can Proceed

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In Pit River Tribe v. Bureau of Land Management ,  (9th Cir., July 20, 2015), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the district co...
Friday, June 26, 2015

Tribe Sues Over California Solar Project In Ancestral Lands

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According to the Parker (AZ) Pioneer , on June 12 the Colorado River Indian Tribes filed suit in a California state court challenging the st...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

Pope's Encyclical On Environmental Protection Issued; Republican Presidential Candidates May Be Pressed

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The Vatican this morning released Pope Francis' much anticipated Encyclical Laudato Si: On Care For Our Common Home , as well as a Press...