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Center for Biological Diversity

Migratory bird formation
Appeals Environment 

For the Birds

February 25, 2021February 26, 2021 BRIEF
Biden administration, birds, Center for Biological Diversity, Trump administration

After delaying a lame-duck gut of migratory bird protections by the Trump administration, the Biden administration announced Thursday it will not appeal a legal victory by conservationists in a challenge of Migratory Bird Act revisions.

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Environment Government 

Trump Opens Up Bidding for Oil and Gas Leases in California

December 10, 2020December 10, 2020 MARTIN MACIAS JR
California, Center for Biological Diversity, Oil and gas, Trump administration

The Trump administration opened bidding for gas and oil drilling leases on California public land Thursday, putting 4,000 acres of resources up for sale in the first auction of its kind in eight years.

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Environment Government 

Feds Face Fresh Lawsuit to Protect Threatened Sage Grouse

December 7, 2020December 9, 2020 AMANDA PAMPURO
Center for Biological Diversity, Interior Department, sage grouse, Trump administration, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service

Environmental groups sued the Trump administration in federal court Monday for failing to protect the endangered Gunnison sage grouse from cattle grazing across its southwestern Colorado habitat.

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Environment Government 

Next President Should Strengthen Endangered Species Act: Report

November 6, 2020November 8, 2020 MARTIN MACIAS JR
Center for Biological Diversity, Endangered Species Act, Trump administration

In a new report, scientists say reversing the Trump administration’s pillaging of the Endangered Species Act won’t be enough — the act needs to be bolstered to be even more effective.

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Courts Environment Government 

Tiehm’s Buckwheat

September 30, 2020September 30, 2020 BRIEF
Center for Biological Diversity, endangered species, Interior Department, plants, Trump administration

The Center for Biological Diversity accuses the U.S. Department of Interior has done nothing about its request to protect the rare wildflower called Tiehm’s buckwheat, which has experienced a 40% decline in population in recent months and faces eradication.

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Business Environment 

Logging Redwoods

September 15, 2020September 16, 2020 BRIEF
California, Center for Biological Diversity, endangered species, Logging

The Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Gualala River sued the logging company Gualala Redwood Timber on Tuesday over plans to log in the area that could threaten endangered species like the California red-legged frog and the Northern spotted owl.

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Environment Government 

Air Quality Plan

August 24, 2020August 25, 2020 BRIEF
air, California, Center for Biological Diversity, EPA, pollution

The Center for Biological Diversity and other conservation groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency over the approval of an air quality plan for Ventura County, California, the groups claim is inadequate.

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Environment Government 

Saving the Teatfish

August 7, 2020August 10, 2020 BRIEF
Center for Biological Diversity, endangered species, marine biology, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Acting on a request filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed Friday to study whether the black teatfish — a type of sea cucumber — should be listed as threatened or endangered due to loss of habitat and commercial harvesting for Indo-Asian markets.

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Business Environment Government 

Nevada Water Order Kills Real Estate Project

June 16, 2020June 16, 2020 BRAD POOLE
Center for Biological Diversity, desert, developers, fish, groundwater, Nevada, Real Estate

Nevada restricted groundwater pumping Tuesday in an area north of Las Vegas, potentially killing a real estate project that threatens an endangered fish clinging to existence in a handful of spring-fed desert pools, the Center for Biological Diversity said.

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Environment Government 

Save the Squirrels

June 11, 2020June 11, 2020 BRIEF
Arizona, Center for Biological Diversity, endangered species

The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Forest Service, Fish & Wildlife Service and Department of the Interior in federal court for failing to protect the critically endangered Mt. Graham red squirrels, which were reduced to a population of only about 80 by wildfires.

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Environment Government 

Endangered Species

May 5, 2020May 5, 2020 BRIEF
Center for Biological Diversity, Endangered Species Act, Interior Department, wildlife

The Center for Biological Diversity claims in a federal complaint that Interior Secretary David Bernhardt missed the deadline to decide whether coastal populations of the Humboldt marten merit protection under the Endangered Species Act.

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Appeals Environment Government 

Air Pollution

April 28, 2020April 28, 2020 BRIEF
California, Center for Biological Diversity, EPA, Ninth Circuit, pollution, Smog

The Center for Biological Diversity on Monday appealed to the Ninth Circuit the U.S. EPA’s refusal “to require reductions of dangerous smog pollution in California’s Imperial County.”

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Environment Regional 

California Looks at Protections for Iconic Joshua Tree

April 13, 2020April 13, 2020 NATHAN SOLIS
California, Center for Biological Diversity, Climate change, desert, endangered species

Conservationists say climate change and urban sprawl could erase the Joshua tree from California’s deserts by the end of the century.

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Environment Government 

Feds Sued for Letting Grizzlies Die With Yellowstone Grazing Plan

March 31, 2020April 1, 2020 MATTHEW RENDA
bears, Center for Biological Diversity, national parks, Sierra Club, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Yellowstone

Environmentalists sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday in a bid to stop a plan that allows for 72 grizzly bears to be killed in a national forest near Yellowstone National Park. 

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Environment Government 

Threatened Bird

March 20, 2020March 24, 2020 BRIEF
birds, Center for Biological Diversity, Endangered Species Act, wetlands

The Center for Biological Diversity sued Interior Secretary David Bernhardt in New Orleans Federal Court for failing to list the wetlands-dwelling eastern black rail as endangered due to loss of habitat.

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Environment Government 

Wolverines

March 19, 2020March 20, 2020 BRIEF
Center for Biological Diversity, endangered species, wildlife

The Center for Biological Diversity and eight other environmental groups sued Interior Secretary David Bernhardt for failing to protect a distinct population segment of the North American wolverine, in Montana federal court.

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Environment Government International 

Conservationists File First Lawsuit in Mexico to Protect Hammerhead Sharks

March 11, 2020March 12, 2020 MATTHEW RENDA
Center for Biological Diversity, endangered species, fishing, marine biology, Mexico, sharks

A wildlife organization announced an unprecedented move in asking Mexico’s government to enforce an injunction to prevent the widespread killing of three species of hammerhead sharks.

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Environment Government 

Grizzlies

March 11, 2020March 12, 2020 BRIEF
bears, Center for Biological Diversity, Endangered Species Act, Idaho, infrastructure, U.S. Forest Service

The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Forest Service in federal court, claiming its approval of construction and maintenance of six roads in national forests in the Idaho Panhandle will harm threatened grizzly bears.

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Environment Government 

Feds Agree to Consider Protections for Hawaii’s Cauliflower Coral

March 4, 2020March 5, 2020 MARTIN MACIAS JR
Center for Biological Diversity, coral reefs, Hawaii, National Marine Fisheries Service, Trump administration

The Trump administration agreed Wednesday to determine by this summer whether it will extend federal wildlife protections to Hawaii’s cauliflower coral reef.

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Environment Government 

Endangered Species

February 21, 2020February 21, 2020 BRIEF
Center for Biological Diversity, endangered species, Interior Department

The Center for Biological Diversity sued Interior Secretary David Bernhardt in federal court for failing to “adequately protect and conserve the critically endangered New Mexico meadow jumping mouse on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest.”

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