COLUMBIA, South Carolina, June 18 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news: * * * Attorney General Alan Wilson defends the First Amendment rights of pro-life Americans Attorney General Alan Wilson recently joined a 20-state friend-of-the-court brief in support of the First Amendment right of the Pregnancy Care Center of Rockford, Illinois, at the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.  The PCC of Rockford holds to a traditional Christian teaching on human life and  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, June 18 -- WildEarth Guardians posted the following news release: * * * Conservation Groups Request More Time, Information about Massive Mining Project on Public Lands near Helena The project sits entirely within the Little Blackfoot River watershed, directly affecting Ophir Creek, Carpenter Creek, and Snowshoe Creek. - HELENA, Mont. - Conservation groups this week submitted a letter to the Helena Ranger District of the U.S. Forest Service decrying a large new proposed  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- Sen. John Curtis, R-Utah, issued the following news release: * * * Curtis, Padilla Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Strengthen Rural Water Infrastructure and Wildfire Readiness * WASHINGTON -U.S. Senators John Curtis (R-UT) and Alex Padilla (D-CA), members of the Environment and Public Works Committee, introduced the FIRE SMART Act, bipartisan legislation to expand funding eligibility for projects with fire suppression benefits in high-risk rural areas. The legislation wou  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 (TNSinfo) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service issued the following information collection: We are advising the public that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), U.S. Department of Agriculture, plans to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) to analyze the effects of a program to suppress populations of grasshoppers and Mormon crickets from rangeland in seventeen states of the western United   more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, June 18 -- WildEarth Guardians posted the following news release on June 16, 2026: * * * Lawsuit Launched to Challenge Massive Logging Project in Montana's Bitterroot National Forest The Bitterroot Front Project authorizes extensive commercial logging, road building, prescribed burning, herbicides and other industrial activities that will significantly damage the forest. - MISSOULA, Mont.-- Local and national conservation groups today filed a notice of their intent to   more

BOZEMAN, Montana, June 18 -- Montana State University issued the following news: * * * Montana State filmmaker earns regional writing award * Montana State University film major Trent Pietsch photographed Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in Bozeman, Mont. MSU photo by Colter Peterson BOZEMAN -Trent Pietsch sat alone in his watch tower. As he waited for incoming training flights on a naval base in Texas about 13 years ago, 19th century philosophers Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche kept hi  more

WASHINGTON, June 17 -- Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, issued the following news release: * * * Padilla, Curtis, and Bipartisan Group of 4 Democrats and 4 Republicans Introduce Bill to Strengthen Rural Water Infrastructure and Wildfire Readiness * WASHINGTON, D.C. -Today, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and John Curtis (R-Utah), members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, introduced the FIRE SMART Act, bipartisan legislation to expand funding eligibility for proje  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, issued the following news release: * * * Padilla, Durbin Sound Alarm on Historically High Number of Deaths in Immigration Detention In a letter to Mullin and Venturella, Padilla and Durbin demand the Trump Administration halt ICE detention expansion until deficiencies are corrected - Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee, and Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-I  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, June 19 -- The University of Nebraska posted the following news: * * * Poust helps identify new species of feathered dinosaur Field course set researcher on path to paleontology career now shaping student research at Nebraska U By Troy Fedderson, University Communication and Marketing Ashley Poust's path to discovering a new species of feathered dinosaur began with a class he never expected to enjoy. Looking to satisfy a science requirement as an undergraduate, Poust si  more