For the second time in less than a year, a federal judge has thrown up a major roadblock to a new copper mine near the Arizona-Mexico border, ruling that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service didn’t adequately assess the environmental impact of the planned Rosemont Mine.
Read moreAustin, Texas, Travis County et al. sued Kinder Morgan Texas Pipeline, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, et al. in federal court, claiming the planned 430-mile Permian Highway natural gas Pipeline through the Central Texas Hill Country will illegally cross sensitive environment and aquifer recharge zones and habitat for species protected by the Endangered Species Act.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service erred when it rejected a petition by an international advocacy group to list a population of wild horses in Montana as threatened or endangered, a federal judge said Tuesday.
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Touting successful conservation efforts in recent decades, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday it will reclassify a Colorado River fish from endangered to threatened.
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Conservationists brought a federal complaint Wednesday that accuses the Trump administration of hastening the extinction of the green sea turtle by failing to designate habitats and to earmark funding.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing the Sierra Nevada red fox as endangered Tuesday, given there are fewer than 100 animals left in its namesake mountain range.
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When the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service takes a species off the endangered list, the move is typically greeted with effusive praise from wildlife conservation groups and offered as proof that conservation in concert with recovery programs works.
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Slamming the “fetid and dystopic conditions” of a Maryland zoo, a federal judge ordered Thursday that any animals that managed to survive must be transferred to a sanctuary.
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When Captain James Cook alighted on the shores of the Hawaiian Islands in January 1778, the first European to set foot on the remote island chain, the population of the Hawaiian goose was estimated to be 25,000.
Read moreThe last grizzly bear in California was shot in the Sierra Foothills, just outside of Fresno, in 1922, so it is a sad irony that the animal still adorns California’s state flag – a symbol of the state’s pride but also a reminder of its history of overmanaging wildlife to the detriment of predators and a natural ecological balance.
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Several fishing and conservation organizations brought a federal complaint Monday over the harm they expect to befall an already threatened species of fish from the Trump administration’s efforts to set new rules for the operation of major California water projects.
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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.
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In about 10 years the glaciers of Glacier National Park will be gone, scientists predict. They may take with them species that rely on clear, cold water, such as the meltwater lednian stonefly and western glacier stonefly – both listed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
Read moreSave the Bull Trout, et al. sued the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in federal court, claiming its long-delayed Bull Trout Recovery Plan violates the Endangered Species Act.
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An environmental advocacy group filed a suit Monday against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, challenging its decision not to list the Joshua tree as a threatened species.
Read moreThe Animal Legal Defense Fund sued Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and his agency’s creatures in federal court, claiming they illegally undermined the Endangered Species Act through regulations.
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Pointing to its battle against an evasive species and threats posed by climate change, the Fish and Wildlife Service on Friday extended Endangered Species Act protection to a small, colorful fish found only in a handful of Tennessee counties.
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Migrating humpback whales in the Pacific Ocean got a bit of good news Tuesday as the Trump administration announced the designation of over 300,000 square nautical miles as new critical habitat to protect from ship traffic, oil spills and fishing gear.
Read moreA dozen species will not receive Endangered Species Act protections, after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found most are resilient enough to survive habitat destruction and the effects of climate change.
Read moreIn the heart of the nation’s largest and most active oilfield, a tiny lizard remains at the center of a debate about balancing environmental safeguards with the economic lifeblood of Texas.
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