After gaining significant protections for bighorn sheep on the Payette National Forest due to Advocates for the West's prior litigation...
Judge Issues Restraining Order Blocking Conoco Shipments
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08/17/2010 
Great News! District Judge John Bradbury issued a temporary restraining order today blocking Idaho Transportation Dept. from allowing ConocoPhillips to ship massive oil refining equipment up the Clearwater-Lochsa corridor. The court cited the "great damage" the shipments might cause and that ITD "may be violating its own regulations" in approving them. The TRO lasts until Friday this week, when a preliminary injunction hearing is scheduled in Grangeville.
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