The public comment period on the Trump administration’s move to overhaul the Endangered Species Act ends next week and if new rules are finalized, it could become harder to protect new species and guard those already under threat.
Read moreHawaiian cauliflower coral is one step closer to federal protection under the Endangered Species Act, according to the initial review released Wednesday by the National Marine Fisheries Service of a petition sponsored by the Center for Biological Diversity.
Read moreFor over two decades, Oregon has regulated thermal pollution in rivers and streams using illegal standards. But at a hearing Tuesday, the federal and state governments said it will take another 12 years to come up with revised standards to protect threatened and endangered fish.
Read moreThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced plans to change the status of the golden conure, an Amazonian bird related to the parrot, from endangered to threatened, and will allow for the import and export of the bird in certain cases following a settlement with the American Federation of Aviculture.
Read moreIn a victory for humpback whales and environmentalists, the federal government agreed Friday to establish critical habitat protection for endangered or threatened whales by 2020.
Read more“Bereft of any explanation,” Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke proposes to include the lower Colorado chub with two other subspecies populations, one of them endangered, thereby removing its protection as a distinct species, in violation of the Endangered Species Act, the Center for Biological Diversity claims in federal court.
Read moreJust in time for the piping plovers to fledge this fall, New York and American Bird Conservancy have resolved a 2016 federal lawsuit over what to do with a community of feral cats at Jones Beach.
Read moreGovernment agencies illegally approved water standards that allow arsenic, selenium and zinc to harm the threatened bull trout, Northwest Environmental Advocates claim in a federal complaint.
Read moreThe federal government has officially listed the coastal areas surrounding the Hawaiian Islands as a protected, critical habitat for the endangered population of false killer whales living there.
Read moreCongress passed the ESA in 1973 with strong bipartisan support at the behest of a Republican president, Richard Nixon. Nevertheless, criticism of the law has been a persistent feature of debates about whether and how to protect imperiled species. Such criticisms led to a proposal by the Trump Administration this week to severely curtail the scope of the Act.
Read moreThe Trump administration says its proposed revisions to the decades-old Endangered Species Act reduce regulatory burden, while conservationists call them a “massive attack” on vulnerable species that face mounting threats from climate change and development.
Read moreThe Republican chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee introduced a draft bill this week that has conservationists worried. The legislation proposed by Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso will significantly revamp the Endangered Species Act, but critics of the move say it will essentially gut the law.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity sued the federal government on Monday for not designating critical habitat for four species of endangered mussels in violated of the Endangered Species Act.
Read moreA recently discovered frog species in Nevada and a unique singing sparrow are being eyed for protection under the Endangered Species Act, according to federal regulators.
Read moreInterior Secretary Ryan Zinke filed to designate critical habitat for the endangered Big Sandy and Guyandotte River Crawfish, in violation of the Endangered Species Act, the Center for Biological Diversity claims in federal court.
Read moreThe Friends of Animals claims in federal court that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to designate critical habitat for the Western distinct population segment of the threatened yellow-billed cuckoo, also known as the rain crow, in violation of the Endangered Species Act.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity brought a federal complaint against the Oregon state forester, claiming logging plans for the Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests will pollute streams and rivers where protected Oregon coast Coho salmon live.
Read moreFive years after U.S. officials marked the spring pygmy sunfish as threatened, the absence of a critical habitat has left the tiny fish clinging to survival, environmentalists claim in a federal complaint.
Read moreMarine wildlife populations like Florida manatees and California sea otters are bouncing back in protected habitats throughout the United States, according to a study from the Center for Biological Diversity.
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