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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A wildlife advocacy organization has settled a dispute with the Trump administration to set aside vast stretches of Arctic sea ice-flecked Alaska coastline for the protection of two imperiled ice seal species.
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The Nashville crayfish has an inordinately narrow habitat range. In fact, it exists in only one place in the world – the Mill Creek watershed located squarely in Nashville, Tennessee.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity sued Interior Secretary David Bernhardt in federal court for failing to update the recovery plan for the endangered red wolf, only 14 of which are known to exist in the wild.
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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.
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