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March 10, 2026
The Trump administration has told a D.C. federal judge there's no basis to sustain a lawsuit challenging an IRS notice eliminating a safe harbor test that wind and solar projects could use to qualify for clean energy tax credits.
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March 10, 2026
The Native American Rights Fund is urging South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden to veto a bill that they say will impose harmful barriers to voter registration and disproportionately burden Indigenous voters and communities across the state.
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March 10, 2026
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is seeking to block a federal government directive to cancel more than $600 million in public health grants administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, alleging that the directive was issued to target Democratic-led states.
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March 10, 2026
A Washington federal judge won't block millions in Pacific salmon hatchery grants or set aside $22 million for two Indigenous nations that allege they were unfairly deemed ineligible for the funding, saying the tribes don't meet the standard for relief and are unlikely to succeed on the merits.
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March 09, 2026
The Trump administration has urged a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's declaration of a national energy emergency, saying blue states haven't alleged anything that a court can review.
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March 09, 2026
A Kansas Indigenous nation is seeking a win in a dispute over tribal jurisdiction, arguing it has satisfied the burden to show that a Jackson County sheriff unlawfully infringed on its inherent sovereignty when he allegedly threatened to arrest tribal officials for reviewing an on-reservation business's tax records.
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March 09, 2026
The Table Mountain Rancheria has asked a California federal judge to deny another tribe's motion to dismiss its lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior over a 40-acre land transfer for a casino project, saying the DOI will protect any interest the tribe might have.
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March 09, 2026
The U.S. Department of the Interior has proposed a rule that would lift an Obama administration directive that bars bear-baiting, trapping and other controversial hunting practices on Alaskan national preserves and realigns the regulations with state wildlife management laws.
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March 09, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a Guam community group's challenge to the U.S. Air Force's bid to explode expired munitions on the island, after a divided Ninth Circuit found the agency should have conducted an environmental review.
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March 06, 2026
Attorneys for the plaintiff in a landmark bellwether California trial in a suit accusing Instagram and YouTube of harming children's mental health rested their case Friday, opting not to call the plaintiff's mother to testify live despite the defense portraying her as the potential cause of the plaintiff's mental health struggles.
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March 06, 2026
A resolution to change the official name of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to "Eastern Cherokee Nation" has been rejected for now by the federally registered tribe's 15-member tribal council, whose members agreed to table the proposal until they get more community feedback.
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March 06, 2026
The federal government is urging a district court to deny an emergency bid by two Washington tribes that would temporarily block millions in tribal hatchery grants to 27 Pacific Indigenous nations, arguing that the only harm in the dispute would be in delaying the awards to the eligible tribes.
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March 06, 2026
The federal government is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn two Tenth Circuit decisions that determined a pair of Native American men can be convicted of simple assault under the Major Crimes Act in cases involving more serious charges, arguing that the "senseless result" can't be reconciled with the law's plain text.
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March 06, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge Friday ordered the Trump administration to step up its pace in restoring a disaster mitigation funding program, nearly three months after he ordered it to do so.
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March 05, 2026
The federal government wants to end litigation by environmental groups seeking to stop a mining company from expanding gold extraction efforts within an Alaska national park, telling a federal court that any alleged harm to the endangered beluga whales living in a nearby bay is speculative.
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March 05, 2026
A federal court judge has sided with California Gov. Gavin Newsom in a dispute over a tribal Class III gaming compact, saying the Morongo Band of Mission Indians failed to show an actual controversy with the state under Article III of the Constitution.
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March 05, 2026
A coalition of 24 states sued President Donald Trump's administration Thursday in the U.S. Court of International Trade to block global tariffs that the White House imposed shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an earlier round of tariffs.
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March 05, 2026
A California Indigenous nation is asking a federal district court to block the state's labor and safety departments from citing and enforcing civil penalties against one of its largest arms of tribal government, saying it is at risk of facing more than $200,000 in unlawful fines if the practice continues.
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March 05, 2026
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, who has come under fire from Republicans in recent days, will vacate her position this month, President Donald Trump announced Thursday.
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March 04, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Washington state asked a Washington federal court on Wednesday to approve an estimated $668 million proposed settlement involving more than 100 parties for cleanup work on Seattle's Duwamish River.
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March 04, 2026
Eight young Alaskans urged the state's justices to revive litigation seeking to block the only permitted liquefied natural gas export project on the nation's Pacific coast, arguing they've sufficiently alleged the project's scale would cause "a colossal level of climate pollution" harming their constitutional rights to public trust resources.
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March 04, 2026
The Trump administration cannot strip tens of thousands of federal workers of their job protections without violating their right to due process and treading on Congress' territory, a coalition of labor groups argued Wednesday, filing their latest challenge to the administration's quest to make federal workers easier to fire.
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March 04, 2026
A Michigan federal judge has decided that transferring a miner's case challenging the establishment of the Chuckwalla National Monument out of her court is "not inappropriate," while also ruling that a slew of tribal nations and environmental groups may intervene in the lawsuit.
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March 04, 2026
The U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday approved former New Mexico Republican Congressman Steve Pearce to lead the Bureau of Land Management by an 11-9 vote, advancing that nominee to the full Senate for consideration in addition to two others.
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March 04, 2026
Conservation groups are looking to vacate the federal government's approval of operation expansion plans for a Montana coal mine at the center of years worth of past litigation, telling a federal court that the agencies "make a mockery of the required environmental review process."