Black Crappie Fishkill

Missoulian: Cause of black crappie die-off being researched

Black Crappie Factsheet

Supreme Court Rulings

Missoulian: The Supreme Court's latest decisions, by the numbers

United States v. Texas
 “Whether a state that voluntarily provides a subsidy to all aliens with deferred action has Article III standing and a justiciable cause of action under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) to challenge the Secretary of Homeland Security’s guidance seeking to establish a process for considering deferred action for certain aliens because it will lead to more aliens having deferred action; (2) whether the guidance is arbitrary and capricious or otherwise not in accordance with law; (3) whether the guidance was subject to the APA’s notice-and-comment procedures; and (4) whether the guidance violates the Take Care Clause of the Constitution, Article II, section 3.”

 Dollar General Corp. v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
“Whether Indian tribal courts have jurisdiction to adjudicate civil tort claims against nonmembers, including as a means of regulating the conduct of nonmembers who enter into consensual relationships with a tribe or its members.”

Mathis v. United States
“Because the elements of Iowa’s burglary law are broader than those of generic burglary, Mathis’s prior convictions cannot give rise to ACCA’s sentence enhancement.”

Birchfield v. North Dakota

“The Fourth Amendment permits warrantless breath tests incident to arrests for drunk driving but not warrantless blood tests.”

Fisher v. University of Tex. at Austin
“The race-conscious admissions program in use at the time of petitioner’s application is lawful under the Equal Protection Clause.”

Mining Dispute

Missoulian: Late miner's legal dispute with federal government expected to continue

U.S. Government Files Civil Suit Involving Lincoln Area Mining Claims (2015)
“According to court documents filed today, the United States government asks the federal district court to find that Kornec, Nappo and Intermountain Mining and Refining, LLC, have failed to comply with regulations governing their unpatented mining claims and to find that they are illegally interfering with property of the United States, which is managed by the United States Forest Service.”

Smurfit-Stone Mill/ Lead Exposure

Missoulian:  Frenchtown mill owner guilty of failing to clean Canadian pulp plant

EPA Superfund Program: SMURFIT-STONE MILL FRENCHTOWN, MISSOULA, MT

Missoulian: Despite reforms, lingering lead plagues health of US

CDC- Lead

“Today at least 4 million households have children living in them that are being exposed to high levels of lead. There are approximately half a million U.S. children ages 1-5 with blood lead levels above 5 micrograms per deciliter (µg/dL), the reference level at which CDC recommends public health actions be initiated.”

EPA- Lead

Renaming Columbus Day/ Zika/ Coral Reefs

Missoulian: Montana lawmaker proposes renaming Columbus Day

Change name of Columbus day holiday

Missoulian: As Zika looms, US health officials worry about the neighbors

Vector Surveillance & Control

Missoulian: Scientists battle to save world's coral reefs

Your Earth Is Blue: Coral Bleaching