New Jersey's advocates warn against treating a strong state framework as a substitute for national policy. Water, they said, ...

The GOP-led North Carolina legislature has siphoned off some of the powers that traditionally belonged to the governor.

Falen, the No. 3 at the Interior Department, didn’t disclose a $3.5 million water-rights contract between her husband and the ...

Nearly 300 Illinois laws took effect Jan. 1. The Illinois’ 1% statewide grocery tax is eliminated, but more than half the state’s cities and towns have passed an ordinance establishing their own ...

Learn why Michigan chose the white-tailed deer as its state animal and how this graceful species shapes life across the state ...

If the project is ultimately deemed eligible for ministerial approval under AB 2011, state law would impose fixed timelines ...

While fraud is on the rise, extortion reports dropped 30% statewide compared to 2020. However, the decline isn't universal.

The Trump administration is moving toward risk evaluations for different individual uses of a chemical, rather than use of ...

The strict regulations of the Endangered Species Act inhibit development and “energy domination,” the Trump administration claims.

Lawmakers are eyeing bills ranging from fixing the state’s waste crisis, further restricting helium balloons and tightening ...

Multiple ordinances establishing specific zones for development in alignment with the township’s recent updated master plan in reference to affordable housing were approved during the latest council ...

The public has until Monday to comment on the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers' proposed changes to the "waters of the United States" definition that are expected to limit ...