Center for Biological Diversity: Decades-long EPA Practice Helped Alert Public to Dangerous Federal Projects.

WASHINGTON— Conservation groups today sued the Trump administration for failing to protect severely imperiled lesser prairie chickens under the ...

SAN FRANCISCO— The Center for Biological Diversity was recently awarded a grant of more than $72,000 as a part of CREDO Mobile's donation program.

SAN FRANCISCO— The Center for Biological Diversity and San Francisco Baykeeper sued the Trump administration today for failing to protect eight highly ...

Center for Biological Diversity: WASHINGTON— The arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture known as Wildlife Services killed nearly 1.5 million native animals ...

CHICAGO— Conservation groups sent a notice today of their intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* for failing to respond to a 2018 petition seeking ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* today agreed to designate critical habitat for four endangered freshwater mussels found in 18 states in the ...

DENVER— Fifty conservation groups sent a letter calling on the Trump administration to restore a 2016 moratorium on new federal coal leasing and plan an ...

SAN FRANCISCO— The Center for Biological Diversity and Turtle Island Restoration Network sued the Trump administration today for permitting a new longline ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— A federal judge ruled late yesterday that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* erred in determining that the streaked-horned lark only warranted ...

VERNAL, Utah— A Utah board today approved spending $21.4 million in public money for a railway to move oil from the Uinta Basin to refineries in other states, ...

HONOLULU— The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a notice of intent to sue the Trump administration for failing to protect cauliflower coral around the ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the National Marine Fisheries *Service* today for failing to designate critical habitat in Alaska for two ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C.— Following a petition and lawsuits from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* today proposed the Carolina ...

SEATTLE— The Center for Biological Diversity today increased to $10000 the reward for information leading to a conviction for the latest illegal killing of a ...

Center for Biological Diversity: WASHINGTON— Top wolf scientists said today that there are major flaws in the Trump administration proposal to end ...

Center for Biological Diversity: Butterfly's Vulnerability to Climate Change Calls for Further Population Modeling.

The Center for Biological Diversity today took legal action in a federal court to challenge an Arizona power-utility company's discrimination against rooftop-solar ...

Center for Biological Diversity: St. James Parish Residents Oppose Project's Pollution, Environmental Racism.

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity and San Francisco Baykeeper sued the Trump administration today for failing to protect eight highly ...

The Center for Biological Diversity and Food & Water Watch filed a lawsuit in federal court today against the JBS-Swift Beef Company to stop illegal discharges ...

WASHINGTON— A new national poll released today by the Center for Biological Diversity shows the majority of Americans oppose the Trump administration's ...

EUREKA, Calif.— Humboldt County Superior Court Judge Kelly Neel ruled in favor of environmental organizations Tuesday in the latest legal battle in the nearly ...

UN scientists warn that roughly 1 million plant and animal species are on the verge of extinction due to human activity. It would be the first mass extinction since ...

Center for Biological Diversity: Trump Administration's Climate Change Denial Fuels Bigger Disasters.

WASHINGTON— Ten environmental groups sued the Trump administration today to challenge rollbacks of the 2016 Well Control and Blowout Preventer Rule, ...

FT. PIERCE, Fla.— Conservation groups sued three federal agencies today for failing to address harm to Florida's endangered species from Lake Okeechobee ...

Center for Biological Diversity: SALT LAKE CITY― Opponents of the Trump administration's plan to auction off nearly 10000 acres of public land for oil and gas ...

VERNAL, Utah― Opponents of the proposed Uinta Basin Railway oil-train project will protest in Vernal Thursday to challenge continued funding of the rail line ...

VENTURA, Calif.— The Center for Biological Diversity and Center for Environmental Health filed a notice today of their intent to sue the Trump administration for ...

Wildlife conservation groups Oregon Wild and the Center for Biological Diversity today released an attack ad against Gov. Kate Brown, criticizing her stance on ...

SANTA MARIA, Calif.— Santa Barbara County residents and environmental advocates will rally Wednesday against a proposed aquifer exemption that could ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif.— Environmental and community groups joined by elected officials will hold rallies this week to blast the Trump administration's draft plan ...

Ruling in favor of conservation groups, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today allowed a lawsuit to move forward challenging the use of lead ...

Tigers and sea otters can't save themselves from extinction. They need help from humans, who are hastening their demise. A board game called "Endangered" ...

Three environmental groups are suing the Trump administration to secure federal protection for lesser prairie chickens .

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— The Center for Biological Diversity and San Francisco Baykeeper sued the Trump administration today for failing to protect the eastern ...

The Environmental Protection Agency published a rule today exempting huge factory farming operations from federal safety and transparency laws that require ...

OAKLAND, Calif.— The Center for Biological Diversity and Center for Environmental Health sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today for failing to ...

Center for Biological Diversity: Lawsuit Prompts Consultation to Save Southern Resident Killer Whales.

WASHINGTON— The Trump administration today restarted an effort to reopen public lands to new federal coal leasing. In today's action, the Interior Department ...

Melissa Robbins. Cronkite News. Arizona is home to a number of species that are threatened by climate change and human activity. Under legislation proposed ...

Conservation groups on June 12 sued the Donald Trump administration for failing to protect severely imperiled lesser prairie-chickens under the Endangered ...

Nestled in the far northern fringes of Los Angeles County, the undeveloped plains of Tejon Ranch are a portal back to California's earliest days. One of the last of ...

A federal judge has agreed with an environmental group that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* must reconsider the “threatened” status of the streaked horned ...

In a rugged canyon in southern Wyoming, a helicopter drops nets over a pair of coyotes. They're bound, blindfolded and flown to a landing station.

Ecological collapse and species loss threaten humanity as much as climate change. Conservationists say we're not listening.

An environmental advocacy group has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service*, claiming federal officials are failing to protect threatened species ...

KAILUA-KONA — The Center for Biological Diversity on Wednesday announced plans to file suit after a federal agency missed a deadline to rule on whether to ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency is taking another stab at revising its process for assessing the risks of pesticides to endangered species. The move ...

BETHANY BEACH, Del.— The Center for Biological Diversity and the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation filed an emergency petition today seeking ...

“The Trump administration just ignored bedrock environmental and public health laws to plow a disastrous border wall through protected, spectacular wildlands.”.

In the vast, big-sky coastal marshes of St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge south of Tallahassee, the air is thick with migrating monarch butterflies on certain fall ...

Eagles and falcons face extinction in Bosnia and Herzegovina, while endangered species in the country include the lynx, the wolf, and the brown bear.

SALEM — Oregon has revised and updated its plan for managing the state's growing wolf population, retaining provisions that allow depredating wolves to be ...

(WAFF) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* has announced an effort to help preserve the spring pygmy sunfish in Madison and Limestone counties.

In a settlement over whale entanglement, California's Dungeness crab fishermen dodge a multiyear closure, but lose the spring season.

An environmental group has asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to stop killing beavers until the department consults with other federal agencies about the ...

(Beyond Pesticides, June 13, 2019) The U.S. allows the use of 85 pesticides that have been banned or are being phased out in the European Union, China or ...

SAN FRANCISCO— Californians will be pleased to know that Dungeness crab will be caught off the coast with greater care for endangered wildlife under a ...

by Brian Burgess | Jun 12, 2019. Soros-backed enviro group sues Trump Administration (again), GOP Congressman Brian Mast. The Center for Biological ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife and Animal Legal Defense Fund sued the Trump administration today over the ...

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has come out in opposition to the revised wolf management plan passed by the state Fish and Wildlife Commission on June 7.

Pressured by higher-ups, a Fish and Wildlife field supervisor smoothed the way for a 28000-home development along a fragile Arizona river.

Leatherback sea turtles are likely to be “effectively extinct within 20 years” if two new federal permits for fishing off the coast of California go into effect, ...

Bayer AG, the German parent of Monsanto, says it will cut its environmental impact by 30% and invest $5.6 billion to find alternatives to its widely used ...

A federal judge dismissed a suit Wednesday brought by the Center for Biological Diversity that would have forced the government to disclose climate change ...

On May 23, 2019, the Center for Biological Diversity and San Francisco Baykeeper (collectively “Center”) filed a lawsuit against the Fish and Wildlife *Service* ...

WASHINGTON— After a prod from a lawsuit filed by conservation groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* announced today that giraffes may qualify for ...

WASHINGTON— House Democrats today released a funding bill for the Interior Department that includes $23.4 million to evaluate whether imperiled animals ...

A coalition of state and national environmental groups says it plans to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* for failing to protect Lake Sturgeon. The.

A new proposed rule from the U.S. Forest *Service* designed to make environmental reviews more efficient would shortcut important oversight of industry plans, ...

Center for Biological Diversity: WASHINGTON— More than 99.9 percent of people commenting on a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposal to ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released a set of proposed changes that would dramatically reduce protections for the nation's most ...

Both national and New Orleans area environmental groups say the offshore drilling rule rollback could result in another oil spill like the one caused by the BP ...

Pima County Supervisor Richard Elias told federal lawmakers that a plan to limit the so-called Waters of the United States rule would end up eliminating ...

WASHINGTON— More than 160 conservation groups sent a letter to U.S. senators today urging them to oppose the nomination of fossil fuel lobbyist David ...

Conservation groups today called on the U.S. Forest *Service* to revise plans for large-scale commercial logging in southern New Mexico's Lincoln National ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif.— The California Fish and Game Commission today voted to formally oppose the Trump administration's proposal to end federal wolf ...

SILVER CITY, N.M.— The U.S. population of endangered Mexican gray wolves increased by 14 animals in 2018, from 117 to 131 during 2018, according to a ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the National Marine Fisheries *Service* and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* today to prohibit ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* today announced plans to strip gray wolves of Endangered Species Act protection across the lower 48 ...

WASHINGTON— On behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity and Defenders of Wildlife, Earthjustice today filed a notice of intent to sue the Trump ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— Eric Glitzenstein, a public interest attorney who has argued groundbreaking environmental and wildlife protection cases and helped secure ...

WASHINGTON— U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today called on the inspector general for the Department of the Interior to investigate Acting Secretary David ...

Environmental groups will get a new chance to force the U.S. Forest *Service* to ban hunters from using lead ammunition in the Kaibab National Forest in a bid to.

SANDPOINT, Idaho— Conservation groups issued a formal notice today of their intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* for failing to finalize endangered ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— A study published today in the journal PeerJ shows the Endangered Species Act has saved roughly 99 percent of protected wildlife since its ...

WASHINGTON— Top officials at the Department of the Interior, including Acting Secretary David Bernhardt, have known since October 2017 that the insecticide ...

The Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water has voted 6-2 in favor of The Wildlife Protection Act of 2019 (AB 273), a bill to ban the cruel.

OAKLAND, Calif.— Volunteer wolf advocates around the nation will gather this week to oppose the Trump administration's plans to end protections for nearly ...

Contact: Jenny Loda, (510) 844-7100 x 336, jloda@biologicaldiversity.org. Ban Sought on Commercial Wild Turtle Trapping in Maryland. Unlimited Numbers of ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity filed four lawsuits today challenging the Trump administration's failure to release a trove of documents ...

WASHINGTON— The Trump administration's 2020 budget proposal contains an unprecedented $2 billion (14 percent) cut for the Department of the Interior and ...

Black bear hunting will be allowed in more counties in southeastern Oklahoma this fall under rules approved Monday by the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— Dozens of Californians spoke out Thursday, at a Sacramento hearing, against the Trump administration's proposal to end federal ...

AUSTIN, Texas— The Center for Biological Diversity and Save Our Springs Alliance today filed a notice of intent to sue the Texas Department of Transportation ...

CODY — Federal government attorneys filed an appeal to overturn a portion of last fall's court ruling that sent the Yellowstone grizzly bear back.

BRUSSELS— Alesha Dixon, Martin Clunes OBE, Deborah Meaden, Anneka Rice, Susan George, Virginia McKenna OBE, Brian Blessed OBE, Fiona Shaw CBE ...

WASHINGTON— Despite an unfolding controversy over the suppression of scientific evidence of pesticide dangers, David Bernhardt was confirmed today to ...