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.
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.”
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity sued Interior Secretary David Bernhardt in federal court, for lollygagging on protecting the threatened or endangered lake sturgeon in the Great Lakes region.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its Administrator Andrew Wheeler in federal court for failing to consider microplastics pollution in Ocean waters off Hawaii in a mandatory report, in violation of the Clean Water Act.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity sued Hawaii’s Department of Land and Natural Resources in state court, claiming it’s allowed commercial take of “at least 576,741 individual specimens of aquatic life extracted from Hawaii waters for aquarium purposes,” in defiance of state law and a court order.
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A lawsuit filed Wednesday seeks to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to take action to reduce air pollution in the smoggy areas of 11 states where air quality has fallen below federal standards.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity sued Interior Secretary David Bernhardt in federal court for missing a deadline to determine whether the Pascagoula map turtle and Pearl River map turtle warrant protection as endangered or threatened species.
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A consortium of conservation groups sued the Trump administration Tuesday to try and stop it from opening a million acres of public lands in Central California for oil and gas drilling.
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The Ninth Circuit dismissed an attempt by a wildlife conservation group to attack a statute the Trump administration has used to undo several Obama-era environmental regulations – in this case, involving hunting in wildlife refuges in Alaska.
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