California environmental groups sued the Trump administration Wednesday to thwart plans to auction over 700,000 acres to the fossil fuel industry, calling the potential of new fracking operations a threat to the San Francisco Bay Area’s wildlife and aquifers.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity sued Interior Secretary David Bernhardt in federal court for “failing to designate critical habitat for 14 endangered species of plants and animals from the island of Hawaii.”
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The federal government agency Wildlife Services needlessly slaughters bears, bobcats, wolves, coyotes and other animals in a “mass extermination program,” according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Center for Biological Diversity.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity sued Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross in federal court for failing to protect the cauliflower coral.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity sued Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt in federal court, claiming he approved oil and gas drilling on more than 1 million acres in western Colorado, “without properly analyzing, studying alternatives to, and disclosing to the public significant quantities of greenhouse gas emissions and ensuing impacts to our climate, natural resources, and communities.”
Read moreSecretary of the Interior David Bernhardt is illegally refusing to protect the severely imperiled Florida Keys mole skink, the Center for Biological Diversity claims in federal court.
Read moreThe Center For Biological Diversity sued the U.S. EPA and FDA for records on to the use of medically important antibiotics as pesticides, which can promote growth of drug-resistant bacteria and diseases.
Read moreThe Fifth Circuit dismissed the Center for Biological Diversity et al.’s lawsuit against the U.S. EPA for lack of standing, as the group’s members cannot show they suffered an injury in fact from pollution in the Gulf of Mexico.
Read moreThe 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.
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