The Center for Biological Diversity brought a federal complaint over the government’s failing to designate critical habitat for five species of Florida and Caribbean coral and seven species of Pacific coral under the Endangered Species Act.
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Three environmental groups asked a federal court Tuesday to immediately block Trump administration waivers of environmental and other laws that ease the path for border wall construction on federally protected land in Arizona.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity brought a federal complaint over failure of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the Arizona eryngo as a threatened or endangered plant, due to groundwater pumping that has ruined its habitat.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity brought a federal complaint over the government’s failure to timely issue a final rule listing the Southern Mountain caribou as threatened or endangered and designate a habitat for them: There are no such caribou in the Lower 48 states, and Canada has taken the few remaining caribou into captivity to protect them.
Read moreAn environmental group sued the Trump administration Thursday for failing to designate critical habitat for two species of seals that rely on sea ice off Alaska’s northwest coast.
Read moreA distinctive songbird with feather “horns” will get another shot at being listed as endangered after a federal judge ruled Monday the government must explain why it listed the species only as threatened despite finding it could cease to exist in parts of its range within 20 years.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity sued Los Angeles County for approving “a new, sprawl city on Los Angeles County’s rural northern border with Kern County”: 19,333 houses and 8.4 million square feet of commercial and industrial use on 12,323 acres of California’s largest remaining native grasslands, atop the San Andreas and Garlock faults.
Read moreThe Trump administration failed to give Endangered Species Act protections to the longfin smelt, the eastern gopher tortoise and six other highly vulnerable species – even after finding that the wildlife qualified – conservationists claim in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday.
Read moreThe gray wolf population across the United States has rebounded to the point that it will soon lose its protected status, the federal government announced Wednesday.
Read moreThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refused its nondiscretionary duty to designate critical habitat for the northern Mexican and narrow-headed garter snakes, which were listed as threatened in 2014 under the Endangered Species Act, the Center for Biological Diversity claims in a federal complaint.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity must amend its claims that the Department of State failed to comply with its reporting obligations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, a federal judge ruled.
Read moreA leaked memo from what conservationists say is the Justice Department advises the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to withhold or delay releasing records sought in Freedom of Information Act requests regarding implementation of the Endangered Species Act.
Read moreA conservation group sued Los Angeles County on Tuesday seeking emails, text messages and other documents exchanged with the developer behind a 12,000-acre planned community on the edge of the Mojave Desert.
Read moreIn a victory for humpback whales and environmentalists, the federal government agreed Friday to establish critical habitat protection for endangered or threatened whales by 2020.
Read moreThe Trump administration says its proposed revisions to the decades-old Endangered Species Act reduce regulatory burden, while conservationists call them a “massive attack” on vulnerable species that face mounting threats from climate change and development.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Thursday affirmed summary judgment for the Export-Import Bank of the United States, for the Center for Biological Diversity’s lack of standing to challenge to the bank’s authorization of nearly $4.8 billion in financing for two liquid natural gas projects near the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
Read moreAhead of a long weekend where millions will flock to beaches around the United States, conservationists petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday to ban two chemicals found in sunscreen that are known to irreparably damage coral reefs.
Read moreMarine wildlife populations like Florida manatees and California sea otters are bouncing back in protected habitats throughout the United States, according to a study from the Center for Biological Diversity.
Read moreThe ancient lake sturgeon should be listed as endangered or threatened, a conservation group said in a petition filed Monday with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Read moreTwo federal agencies violated the Endangered Species Act by delaying a decision on whether to extend protections to the San Joaquin Valley giant flower-loving fly, according to a federal lawsuit filed Friday.
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