Niina H. Farah (née Heikkinen) previously covered regulations and federal agencies for E&E News. She has also covered climate policy at EPA under the Trump administration, and agriculture, fisheries and biofuels, with a focus in scientific research and ecological conservation. Before joining the E&E News staff, she was a reporting fellow for Climatewire. She has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and dual bachelor's degrees in animal science (with a concentration in pre-veterinary medicine) and journalism from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
PennEast Pipeline Co. LLC announced yesterday it plans to ask the Supreme Court to decide a legal dispute over whether its pipeline project violated New Jersey's constitutional protections.
Federal officials have withdrawn thousands of acres of land slated for sale to the oil and gas industry after courts demanded that the government take a closer look at greater sage grouse habitat protections and climate change impacts.
A federal judge in Colorado today struck down the Interior Department's plan to expand the West Elk mine in North Fork Valley.
Michigan's top lawyer is continuing to fight Enbridge Inc.'s pipeline replacement project planned beneath part of the Great Lakes.
Polar bear harassment and climate analysis took center stage in oral arguments before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday over federal agency approvals for an Alaskan oil company's drilling project in the Beaufort Sea.