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Two environmental groups are suing to stop logging in southwest Colorado on forest land that feeds the headwaters of the Rio Grande. The lawsuit filed Monday in federal court by WildEarth Guardians and Colorado Wild claims the U.S. Forest Services approval...
Tags: Rio Grande National Forest, Colorado Wild, environmental groups, Rio Grande River
An 11th hour lawsuit against the US Customs and Border Protection of the Department of Homeland Security buys time for creatures of 1000 living species that are slated for demolition along a 1.1 mile stretch of the US-Mexico border. Residents...
Tags: US Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security, US-Mexico border, Imazapyr, environment, activism, Rio Grande River, carrizo, Jay J. Johnson-Castro, Sr., Israel Reyna, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid
In a major setback to the environment last night, the Laredo TX city council voted to allow the Border Patrol to aerially spray the US-Mexico border with the toxic herbicide Imazapyr, a substance which begins to kill all vegetation immediately...
Tags: environment, US Border Patrol, US-Mexico border, Attorney General Eric Holder, Imazapyr, carrizo, Rio Grande River, Rio Grande International Study Center, US Department of Justice, US Environmental Protection Agency, Jay J. Johnson-Castro Sr., activist
What would you ask three Hondurans who, just the night before, slipped across the border between Mexico and the US? What would you want to know? How did they do it? They ran into the darkness down a mountain to wade across the cold Rio Grande River. Then...
Tags: illegal aliens, migration, illegal immigration, U.S. Border Patrol, U.S.-Mexico Border, Rio Grande River, economic problems, extortion, rape
Texas The swelling Rio Grande flowed over a levee Wednesday, sending water cascading onto the golf course and some ranch land in this dusty-turned-muddy West Texas border town. The levee had not failed, said Presidio County Attorney Rod Ponton, but...
Tags: West Texas, Presidio County Judge Agan, U.S.-Mexico, texas border, Ojinaga, border town, Rio Grande River