GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to switch gears on more than 30 years of regulating the muddy water running off logging roads into rivers. At issue: Should the U.S.

In a 7-1 decision, the court reversed a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that said active logging roads need Clean Water Act permits, like those required of factories and feedlots, to better ...

Yesterday, in a 7-1 decision with Justice Scalia the lone dissenter, the U.S. Supreme Court handed a major victory to the forest products industry. As it does so often, the Court reversed a Ninth ...

(CN) - Logging companies have to get permits for the mud and sediment that washes off logging roads and into forests and rivers, the 9th circuit ruled, overturning a lower court's ruling that storm ...

GRANTS PASS -- A federal appeals court Tuesday decided that mud washing off logging roads is pollution and ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to write regulations to reduce the amount that ...

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — The timber industry is hoping that the U.S. Supreme Court will maintain business as usual on controlling muddy water running off logging roads into salmon streams. The high ...

The Act requires, among other things, NPDES permits for point source discharges into the navigable waters of the United States. In Decker, an environmental organization filed suit in the U.S. District ...

When loggers invaded the Tahoe Basin during the era of the Comstock Lode, they built hundreds of miles of dirt roads to haul timber to the mines of Nevada. Today, 361 miles of mostly unsurfaced roads ...

A viral Vancouver Island beach may look like paradise online — but the rugged road in is leaving unprepared visitors with ...

Logging road networks have expanded widely in the Congo Basin since 2003, according to a new study. The authors calculated that the length of logging roads doubled within concessions and rose by 40 ...