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