SACRAMENTO, Calif.— A new state analysis has documented super-toxic rat poisons in more than 85 percent of tested mountain lions, bobcats and protected ...

Contact: Kristen Monsell, (914)-806-3467, kmonsell@biologicaldiversity.org. Trump Administration Approves Harmful Airgun Blasting in Atlantic. Blasts Will Hurt ...

WASHINGTON— In an order quietly signed right before Thanksgiving, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke reassigned the responsibility of overseeing Freedom of ...

SALT LAKE CITY― The Trump administration today offered more than 150,000 acres of public lands for fossil-fuel extraction near some of Utah's most iconic ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The Trump administration has approved the use of the medically important antibiotic oxytetracycline as a pesticide on citrus fruits like ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Earth sued the Environmental Protection Agency today for refusing to release public ...

WASHINGTON— The final text of the 2018 Farm Bill agreed to today by Congress rejects an unprecedented, industry-written provision that would have ...

RENO, Nev.— The Trump administration plans to auction more than 900,000 acres for oil and gas extraction on the doorstep of Nevada's only national park and ...

WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency has refused to ban M-44s, commonly known as cyanide bombs, which cause agonizing deaths for ...

KATOWICE, Poland— New analysis from the Center for Biological Diversity, Farm Forward and Brighter Green today finds that the meat-heavy menu at the ...

WASHINGTON— Conservation groups today sued the Trump administration for failing to consider protections for Africa's rapidly dwindling giraffe population ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity and allies took legal action this week to prevent construction of a newly proposed fracked gas pipeline in ...

CHARLESTON, W.V.— In response to a petition and litigation from conservation groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* today finalized protection for the ...

WASHINGTON— A Senate subcommittee Wednesday will consider legislation to allow native tule elk to be shot or removed from California's Point Reyes ...

LOS ANGELES— The L.A. County Board of Supervisors is expected to consider whether to approve the controversial Centennial development on Dec. 11.

LOS ANGELES— The L.A. County Board of Supervisors today voted 4-1 in favor of the controversial Centennial development, with Supervisor Sheila Kuehl ...

SAN FRANCISCO— Thursday's opening of California's commercial Dungeness crab season is clouded by the outbreak of a powerful neurotoxin and continuing ...

LOS ANGELES— Attorneys representing youth groups from South Los Angeles and Wilmington and the Center for Biological Diversity will argue in a California ...

FALLON, Nev.— The U.S. Navy today released details of a plan to seize more than 600,000 acres of public land in central Nevada to expand a bombing range.

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity today sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* for violating the Endangered Species Act by never providing a ...

WASHINGTON— A Trump administration proposal today to radically slash Clean Water Act protections would free industry to dump toxic waste into streams ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif.— A judge today ruled that Kern County must rescind its approvals for Tejon Ranch Company's proposed 8,000-acre Grapevine ...

It may not feel like science wins often in court but it beat out activists last week.

WASHINGTON— As one of the final acts of the 115th Congress, House Republicans today passed legislation in a partisan vote to end Endangered Species Act ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity and 10 other groups are opposing a U.S. Department of the Interior request to destroy records related to ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* today proposed critical habitat for the endangered Sonoyta mud turtle. These highly aquatic turtles are found ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The Trump administration has approved a maximum level of the medically important antibiotic oxytetracycline allowed in citrus fruits.

ST. PAUL, Minn.― Conservation and clean-water groups today appealed state permits issued for the PolyMet open-pit copper mine in northern Minnesota and ...

REDDING, Calif.— The Center for Biological Diversity and the Environmental Protection Information Center sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* today for ...

CHARLESTON, S.C.— Leading environmental groups sued the federal government today to prevent seismic airgun blasting in the Atlantic Ocean.

On Tuesday, the Bureau of Land Management took bids for oil and gas leases on 154212 acres of public land. This move was criticized by the Center for.

ANCHORAGE— The Trump administration today moved to open protected wildlife habitat in the northern Alaska wilderness to expanded oil and gas leasing.

KATOWICE, Poland— Environmental and climate-justice groups will host a panel on the global movement to phase out oil, gas and coal production at the United ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Supreme Court today issued a narrow ruling on the case involving endangered dusky gopher frogs, sending it back to the 5th Circuit ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas— The Trump administration today auctioned off 4,200 acres of public land for fracking beneath Corpus Christi's drinking-water supply, ...

AUSTIN, Texas— The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a formal notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* for failing to designate critical ...

DENVER― Federal land-management plans released today would undo key protections for greater sage grouse on public lands and allow more fossil-fuel ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity today sued the Trump administration for refusing to recognize that ocean acidification caused by fossil ...

Ruling Deals Yet Another Setback to Proposed Dirty Fossil Fuel Project. GREAT FALLS, Mont.— A federal judge reaffirmed today that TransCanada cannot ...

Federal wildlife workers kill coyotes in Montana with an arsenal of lethal approaches. They shoot them from he.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.— In response to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity and Arkansas-based environmental organizations, the Arkansas Game ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— Unpublished research funded by Dow Agrosciences, the maker of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, omitted key results on the brain-harming effects ...

State analysis of reports and studies shows mountain lions, bobcats, fishers and owls are unintentional victims.

WASHINGTON— In a victory for one of Earth's most endangered marine mammals, a third U.S. court decision today upheld a four-month-old ban on importing ...

On Tuesday the Trump administration offered more than 150000 acres of public lands for fossil-fuel extraction near some of Utah's most iconic landscapes, ...

SAN FRANCISCO— Conservation groups and Humboldt residents appeared in federal court today for a hearing on a legal challenge to Caltrans' controversial ...

OCEAN CITY -- Weeks after the Trump administration authorized seismic air gun testing for offshore oil and gas exploration off the mid-Atlantic coast, a.

ST. GEORGE — A conservation group has petitioned the federal government to list a desert bee once seen in southwest Utah as endangered. The Mojave ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a story Dec. 11 about a large housing development approved in the mountains north of Los Angeles, The Associated Press reported ...

Two antibiotics have been approved by the EPA to treat citrus greening, a disease that affects fruits like oranges. Critics worry the use of bactericides may lead to ...

News of the institute's fate sparked concern and frustration by faculty, staff and the public. There's still a chance for the administration to reverse course.

In a reversal of Obama-era policy, the Trump administration announced its plan Tuesday to strip streams and wetlands of their protections under the Clean Water ...

Barring action in Washington, D.C., before the end of the year, Congressman-elect Pete Stauber plans to take up legislation early in 2019 that would stem a ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sent a letter to Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) and the House Natural Resources Committee Wednesday ...

In 2007, the Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery in Tillamook, Oregon lost 75 percent of its oyster larvae. The oyster farmers initially thought it was disease, but ...

New analysis from the Center for Biological Diversity, Farm Forward and Brighter Green Sunday finds that the meat-heavy menu at the United Nations' ...

A national conservation group sued the Trump administration in a Portland federal court today for failing to address ocean acidification in Oregon's coastal ...

Seismic airgun blasting in the Atlantic Ocean could deafen marine life — and imperil the foundations of the ocean food web.

OLYMPIA, Wash.— Two conservation groups filed an emergency lawsuit today seeking a temporary restraining order to stop Washington wildlife officials from ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it would not hear a challenge to the Trump administration's proposed border wall brought by environmental groups ...

The lawsuit claimed that Department of Homeland Security overstepped its authority by bypassing federal environmental laws.

WASHINGTON— In a massive attack on imperiled wildlife, the Trump administration announced a series of rollbacks today to the regulations implementing key ...

Even as Utah wildlife officers struggle to re-release it into the wild, a sassy bobcat trapped for eating chickens registers its displeasure with snarls and swipes, ...

WASHINGTON— Conservation and animal protection groups sued the Trump administration today for illegally establishing the “International Wildlife ...

Campaigners say 'This action is unlawful and we're going to stop it' over planned use of seismic air guns that could harm dolphins and whales.

WASHINGTON— Conservation groups today filed a notice of intent to sue the Trump administration for failing to respond to a legal petition to protect giraffes ...

24 November 2018: The Sixth Global Biodiversity Summit of Local and Subnational Governments adopted an urgent call for action for strengthened commitment ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— In a Trump administration memorandum leaked to the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* is directing its staff to ...

SEATTLE— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today for failing to protect the West Coast ocean habitat of the last remaining ...

ARCATA, Calif.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* today proposed Endangered Species Act protection for Humboldt martens as “threatened” in response to a ...

SALT LAKE CITY— A new Koch-funded research center at Utah State University is taking over the work of a private anti-public-lands think tank, leveraging the ...

A recently passed bill, a recently filed lawsuit and a pending agency action pertaining to federal management of the gray wolf are putting a renewed focus on ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— More than three-quarters of new oil wells approved during California Gov. Jerry Brown's tenure are in low-income communities and ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity today urged the Environmental Protection Agency to deny Bayer CropScience's request to allow the ...

The dusky gopher frog, an endangered species of frog living in Mississippi, became the center of a legal battle over how the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* ...

RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas— The Trump administration announced today that it will waive dozens of environmental laws to speed border-wall construction ...

WASHINGTON— The Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency released today a proposed replacement of the Clean Power Plan that would let ...

LOS ANGELES— A federal court today ordered the Trump administration to stop issuing permits for offshore fracking in federal waters off the California coast.

HONOLULU— Cauliflower coral, a bushy species in the Hawaiian Islands that has been devastated by ocean warming triggered by human-caused climate ...

LOS ANGELES— Eleven disadvantaged neighborhoods and communities endure the heaviest use of toxic oil-drilling chemicals in Los Angeles County, ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— Center for Biological Diversity Executive Director Kierán Suckling released the following statement in response to a New York Times report, ...

IDAHO FALLS — The United States EPA has denied a petition to ban the use of M-44 Cyanide devices nationally. The Center for Biological Diversity and a ...

WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it will forgo a ban in favor of minor new restrictions on the pesticide dicamba, ...

WASHINGTON— Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives today announced a series of bills aimed at profoundly gutting the Endangered Species Act, ...

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* today proposed drastic management plan changes that would allow the killing of red wolves, some of the ...

BOISE, Idaho— Conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging Trump administration policies that gut protections for imperiled greater sage grouse and ...

NEW ORLEANS— From economists and scientists to religious leaders and business owners, dozens of groups this week submitted “friend of the court” briefs ...

SAN FRANCISCO— The Center for Biological Diversity, Turtle Island Restoration Network and Wishtoyo Foundation today reached a settlement with the Trump ...

WASHINGTON— The Trump administration has nominated a former Monsanto employee to run the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service*. Aurelia Skipwith has been at ...

LOS ANGELES— The Center for Biological Diversity notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife *Service* today of its intent to sue the agency for failing to protect lifesaving ...

RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas— The Trump administration today announced that it will waive 28 laws to speed construction of gates and other border-wall ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity today petitioned for Endangered Species Act protection for the lake sturgeon, an ancient fish species in the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The conflict between the need for more housing in California and the danger of building in fire-prone mountains was decided in favor of ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today for illegally withholding public records documenting the widespread ...

This week on Helping Hand we're learning about a crisis in our Asia Pacific neighborhood revolving around the Pacific Walrus. HPR All Things Considered.

SAN FRANCISCO— In a win for conservation groups, a judge ruled today in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California that the U.S. Fish and ...

WASHINGTON— The House Agriculture Committee passed H.R. 2, the 2018 Farm Bill, today on a party-line basis. The legislation, sponsored by Rep.

Conservation groups and environmental activists have teamed up to sue the Trump administration over its failure to protect giraffes. As reported by truthout, the ...

LOS ANGELES— The Center for Biological Diversity today tripled the reward to $15,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the May 2018 ...

WASHINGTON— The newest version of the 2018 Farm Bill, set for a vote on Friday, includes an unprecedented provision allowing the widespread killing of ...