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Lawsuit Challenges Federal Failure to Protect Rare South Florida Crayfish
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— The Center for Biological Diversity and Miami Waterkeeper sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for failing to finalize Endangered Species Act protections for the Miami cave crayfish.
Read more.Lawsuit Challenges Trump EPA’s Axing of Protections to Reduce Meat Processing Pollution
SAN FRANCISCO— Community and conservation groups are suing the Trump administration over its recent decision to abandon protections that would have stopped millions of pounds of pollutants from being dumped by slaughterhouses and meat-processing plants into waterways across the U.S.
Read more.Lawsuit Seeks Records on Trump Energy Order to Gut Environmental Protections
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today seeking public records on actions related to the so-called energy emergency.
Read more.Lawsuit Aims to Protect Rare Southeastern Pinesnake
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today for failing to protect the Florida pinesnake under the Endangered Species Act. The pinesnake lives in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama.
Read more.Lawsuit Filed to Reduce Asthma-Causing Air Pollution in Three States
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club filed a lawsuit today challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to ensure that counties in three states have effective plans for cleaning up sulfur dioxide air pollution.
Read more.Lawsuit Aims to Protect Oregon Coast Red Tree Voles
PORTLAND, Ore.— Conservation groups sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for denying protections to the imperiled North Oregon Coast population of red tree voles. The voles spend most of their lives in the upper branches of the Oregon Coast’s mature and old-growth forests.
Read more.Lawsuit Seeks Records on Trump Efforts to Weaken Whale Habitat Protections
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today to force the release of public records on a proposed rollback of key Endangered Species Act protections for marine wildlife, including the potential political or industry influences behind the change.
Read more.Lawsuit Seeks Records on Trump, DOGE’s Environmental Rollbacks Agenda
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Office of Management and Budget today seeking the lists of agency environmental safeguards targeted for cancellation or modification by Trump’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency.”
Read more.Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration’s New Arizona Border Wall Waivers
TUCSON, Ariz.— Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today for unconstitutionally waiving dozens of environmental laws to speed border wall construction through the San Rafael Valley in Arizona’s Sky Island region, a biodiversity hotspot that includes the most significant wildlife corridor remaining along the Arizona-Mexico border.
Read more.Lawsuit Aims to Protect Oregon’s Crater Lake Newt From Extinction
PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today for delaying critically needed Endangered Species Act protections for the Crater Lake newt. The newts live only in Oregon’s Crater Lake, and their population has crashed to as few as 13 animals in recent years because of the introduction of signal crayfish and warming lake temperatures from climate change.
Read more.Lawsuit Seeks Protection for Rare Desert Wetland Wildflower in Nevada, California
LAS VEGAS— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today seeking Endangered Species Act protections for the Tecopa bird’s beak, a rare desert wetland wildflower that grows in Nevada and California.
Read more.Lawsuit Filed to Protect Everglades From Becoming I.C.E Detention Center
MIAMI— Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity today sued in U.S. District Court to protect the Florida Everglades from a reckless plan to create a massive detention center to confine people who are rounded up in immigration raids.
Read more.Lawsuit Seeks List of Polluters Asking Trump for Clean Air Act Exemptions
TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today for failing to release the names of fossil fuel companies and other polluters seeking exemptions from life-saving Clean Air Act safeguards against hazardous pollution.
Read more.Lawsuit Seeks Records on Trump’s Efforts to Weaken Habitat Protections for Imperiled Wildlife
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today for failing to release public records about its proposal to rescind the long-standing definition of “harm” in the Endangered Species Act’s regulations. The proposed change marks the administrations’ first step toward stripping habitat protections from imperiled plants and animals facing extinction.
Read more.Trump’s Plan to Land SpaceX Rockets in Pacific Wildlife Refuge Spurs Lawsuit
HONOLULU— The Center for Biological Diversity has sued the U.S. Air Force and Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to release public records detailing the Trump administration’s plans to build landing pads for SpaceX rockets in sensitive marine habitat in the Pacific Ocean.
Read more.Lawsuit Seeks Protections for Rare Toad Threatened by Trump’s Fossil Fuel Push
LAS VEGAS— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for failing to finalize Endangered Species Act protections for the critically imperiled Railroad Valley toad.
Read more.Lawsuit Seeks Info on RFK Jr.’s Calendar, Records on Dietary Guidelines
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today for failing to release Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s calendar and schedule. The lawsuit also seeks information about the development of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, including related communications with the beef industry.
Read more.Lawsuit Challenges Trump Order Opening Pacific Monument to Commercial Fishing
HONOLULU— Kāpaʻa, the Conservation Council for Hawai‘i and the Center for Biological Diversity, represented by Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration today challenging its illegal actions to open the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument to commercial fishing.
Read more.Lawsuit Seeks DOGE Plans for Upcoming Mass Firings
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued Trump’s Office of Personnel Management today seeking the plans required by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency to drastically reshape and downsize key agencies’ workforces.
Read more.Lawsuit Aims to Protect Critically Endangered Gulf Rice’s Whale From Oil, Gas Dangers
GREENBELT, Md.— Four conservation groups filed suit today in U.S. District Court to challenge a government plan that fails to properly protect rare species, including Rice’s whales and Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, from being harmed or killed by fossil fuel drilling and exploration in the Gulf of Mexico.
Read more.Lawsuit Aims to Protect Cook Inlet, Belugas from Water Pollution, Noise
ANCHORAGE, Alaska— Several groups and an Alaska resident filed suit today to protect endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales and the Johnson River, which flows through Lake Clark National Park before entering Cook Inlet, or Tikahtnu in the Dene language.
Read more.Lawsuit Challenges Trump Approval of Louisiana LNG Deepwater Export Terminal
CAMERON, La.— The Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club sued the Trump administration today for approving the proposed Delfin LNG deepwater export terminal 40 miles off the Louisiana coast. The project would be the first offshore LNG export project in the United States.
Read more.Trump Plan to Accelerate National Forest Logging Spurs Lawsuit
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Forest Service today for failing to release public records about the Trump administration’s plans to rapidly expand logging in the nation’s forests.
Read more.Lawsuit Challenges EPA’s Failure to Protect People, Wildlife From Pesticides Applied to Water
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to ensure pesticides sprayed directly into water bodies and streams to control weeds and mosquitoes, and for other purposes, aren’t harming protected plants and animals.
Read more.Trump’s Use of Emergency Powers to Dismantle Wetlands Protections Spurs Lawsuit
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump Army Corps of Engineers today for failing to release information about its plans to rubber-stamp the destruction of wetlands to speed along fossil fuel energy projects.
Read more.Lawsuit Seeks Public Records on Harms to Whales, Sea Turtles, Marine Life From NOAA Mass Firings
SILVER SPRING, Md.— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today for failing to release public records about ocean conservation work interrupted by mass firings and layoffs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Read more.Lawsuit Pushes Trump Administration to Save Brook Floater Mussel
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity today sued the Trump administration for denying protections to the brook floater mussel under the Endangered Species Act.
Read more.Lawsuit Seeks Trump’s Master Plans for Slashing Environmental Protections
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued four Cabinet-level agencies today for failing to release information on the Trump administration’s “action plans” to boost the oil industry and other fossil fuel producers by rolling back and eliminating environmental safeguards.
Read more.Lawsuit Seeks Info on Trump EPA’s Plan to Reconsider Climate Endangerment Finding
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Environmental Protection Agency today for failing to release information about the agency’s plans to reconsider, and likely undercut, its landmark scientific finding that greenhouse gasses endanger public health and the environment.
Read more.Lawsuit Challenges Delays by Trump EPA in Cleaning Up Dangerous Smog Pollution in Phoenix, Yosemite National Park Area
OAKLAND, Calif.— Conservation and public-health groups sued Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin today for his failure to take action to reduce smog pollution in the Phoenix metro area and Mariposa County, California, home to Yosemite National Park.
Read more.Lawsuit Seeks Details on Trump Administration Cuts to Life-Saving Elephant, Rhino Conservation Programs
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today over its delay in complying with a public records request seeking information about funding cuts to international wildlife conservation programs.
Read more.Lawsuit Challenges Outdated Plans for Aging Oil Platforms Off California Coast
LOS ANGELES— The Center for Biological Diversity and the Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation filed a lawsuit today against the Trump administration over the federal failure to require updated development and production plans for oil drilling at the Santa Ynez Unit off the California coast.
Read more.Lawsuit Aims to Protect Nantahala-Pisgah Forest From Destructive Logging Plan
ASHEVILLE, N.C.— A coalition of conservation groups today sued the Trump administration over the U.S. Forest Service’s Nantahala-Pisgah forest plan. The plan allows for a five-fold increase in logging that violates federal law by overlooking harms to forests, water quality and wildlife.
Read more.Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration Over Delayed Protections for Two California Salamanders
SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The Center for Biological Diversity today sued the Trump administration for delaying Endangered Species Act protections for the Kern Canyon slender salamander and relictual slender salamander in California.
Read more.Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration Failure to Review Flawed Oil, Gas Industry Air-Pollution Permits in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency today over its delay in responding to challenges to air-pollution permits for oil and gas processing facilities in Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.
Read more.Lawsuit Seeks to Protect 11 South Florida Species
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— The Center for Biological Diversity, represented by the Jacobs Public Interest Law Clinic for Democracy and the Environment at Stetson University College of Law, sued the Trump administration today for delaying Endangered Species Act protection for a lizard, two snakes and eight plants found in South Florida.
Read more.Lawsuit Challenges Federal Failure to Regulate Dangerous Phosphate Mining Waste
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— Conservation, public health and environmental justice organizations sued the Trump administration today over the federal failure to respond to a petition requesting stronger oversight of toxic and radioactive waste from phosphate mining and fertilizer production.
Read more.Lawsuit Seeks to Prevent DOGE, Musk From Gutting U.S. Environmental Agencies
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued five cabinet-level agencies today seeking to stop the so-called Department of Government Efficiency and its DOGE teams from taking further actions against multiple environmental agencies until each team fully complies with the Federal Advisory Committee Act. This is the first lawsuit challenging DOGE’s efforts to eviscerate the agencies charged with protecting the environment, natural resources and wildlife.
Read more.Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration Failure to Protect Gulf of Mexico’s Smalltail Shark
SILVER SPRING, Md.— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today for its failure to decide whether to protect smalltail sharks under the Endangered Species Act. The sharks live in nearshore waters of the western Atlantic Ocean from Brazil to the northern Gulf of Mexico.
Read more.Lawsuit Seeks Records on DOGE Structure, Musk’s Mission in Trump Administration
WASHINGTON— The Center Biological Diversity today sued the Trump administration, including Elon Musk, to obtain public records on the activities of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. The lawsuit appears to be the first contending that DOGE itself is an “agency” for purposes of the Freedom of Information Act.
Read more.Lawsuit Seeks Endangered Species Act Protections for Washington’s Sand-Verbena Moth
TACOMA, Wash.— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today seeking Endangered Species Act protections for sand-verbena moths. These highly imperiled moths were denied protections in 2019 when Trump was first in office.
Read more.Lawsuit Challenges Trump Order to Undo Ocean Protections From Offshore Drilling
ANCHORAGE— Conservation groups today filed the first environmental lawsuit against the Trump administration to protect oceans from offshore drilling. One set of groups is challenging an illegal order by President Trump to revoke former President Biden’s withdrawal of vulnerable areas of the ocean from future oil-and-gas leasing. Another set is asking a court to reinstate a federal court ruling that invalidated an attempt by the first Trump administration to undo Obama-era offshore protections.
Read more.Lawsuit Challenges EPA’s Approval of Radioactive Roads
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Environmental Protection Agency today for approving the use of radioactive phosphogypsum in road construction at Mosaic’s New Wales facility in Mulberry, Florida.
Read more.Lawsuit Challenges Massive Idaho Gold Mine Threatening Wildlife, Public Health
MCCALL, Idaho— Local and national conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service today to challenge its approval of the Stibnite Gold Project, an open-pit cyanide leach gold mine in Idaho’s Salmon River Mountains. The mine would jeopardize public health and clean water, harm threatened plants and animals, and permanently scar thousands of acres of public land in the headwaters of the South Fork Salmon River.
Read more.Lawsuit Challenges USDA’s Killing of Texas Wildlife
SAN ANTONIO— The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a lawsuit in federal court to stop the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services program from trapping, shooting and poisoning Texas’ wildlife.
Read more.Lawsuit Aims to Protect Spring-Run Chinook Salmon in Pacific Northwest
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Center for Biological Diversity and allies sued the National Marine Fisheries Service today for delaying Endangered Species Act protection decisions for spring-run Chinook salmon in Oregon, Washington and Northern California.
Read more.Lawsuit Challenges Federal Approvals for New Oil, Gas Drilling on California Public Lands
BAKERSFIELD, Calif.— Health and conservation groups sued the Bureau of Land Management today, challenging its approvals of new oil and gas drilling permits on public lands in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Despite an ongoing legal challenge to its permitting system in the region, the BLM continues to hand over drilling permits to fossil fuel companies at the expense of public health, the environment and the law.
Read more.Lawsuit Demands Records Supporting Finding That Spraying Insecticides Across Millions of Western Acres Harms None of Region’s 201 Endangered Species
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for failing to release records documenting its finding that insecticides sprayed across millions of acres in 17 states do not harm any of the area’s 201 endangered plants and animals.
Read more.Lawsuit Seeks to Compel EPA to Prevent Dangerous Air Pollution From Mine in Arizona’s Patagonia Mountains
WASHINGTON— Conservation and community groups today sued the Environmental Protection Agency over its delay in responding to objections filed over an Arizona air pollution permit for a new heavy metals mine in the Patagonia Mountains south of Tucson.
Read more.Lawsuit Seeks Records on Elon Musk, DOGE’s Role in Trump Transition
WASHINGTON— The Center Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today to obtain public records showing how people claiming to represent the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, have interacted with the White House since the presidential transition began in November.
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