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Community activists with ancestral ties to enslaved people at Louisiana plantations are using a unique legal theory to gain access to an unmarked slave cemetery on the property of a petrochemical company.

Officials are warning that the megabill passed last week will likely raise Washington householdsòòò½ÊÓƵ™ electricity costs and eliminate thousands of jobs in Washingtonòòò½ÊÓƵ™s clean energy and manufacturing sectors.

Yellowstoneòòò½ÊÓƵ™s geological history is one of the most intensely studied in North America. Fromòòò½ÊÓƵa map drawn on a bison pelt by Native American tribesòòò½ÊÓƵtoòòò½ÊÓƵBob Christiansenòòò½ÊÓƵ™s 1:125,000 scale map published in 2001, the resolution of Yellowstone maps only continues to evolve. Although these maps òòò½ÊÓƵ”òòò½ÊÓƵespecially those that show the geology òòò½ÊÓƵ” have created a solid foundation [òòò½ÊÓƵ¦]

The Idaho Department of Water Resources has issued a new order finding that the Twin Falls Canal Co. may experience a water shortfall during this summeròòò½ÊÓƵ™s irrigation season.òòò½ÊÓƵ The Idaho Department of Water Resources announced Friday that Director Mathew Weaver signed a methodology order forecasting the Twin Falls Canal Co. may face a shortage of [òòò½ÊÓƵ¦]

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen has filed a motion for the state to intervene in a federal climate change lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Montana last year. Knudsen is leading a coalition of 18 other Republican state Attorneys General, and the Territory in Guam, in filing as defendants in the lawsuit that [òòò½ÊÓƵ¦]

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek has declared the first drought emergencies of the year for two counties on opposite sides of the state.òòò½ÊÓƵòòò½ÊÓƵ The governor signed two executive orders declaring drought emergencies on Thursday in Baker òòò½ÊÓƵ along the northeast Oregon-Idaho border, and Lincoln òòò½ÊÓƵ, on the Oregon Coast, ordering the stateòòò½ÊÓƵ™s Office of Emergency Management [òòò½ÊÓƵ¦]