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Legal Petition Aims to Protect Marine Life, Pressure Oil Corporations to Plug Offshore Wells
Conservation organizations filed a legal petition today calling on the Trump administration to bar oil and gas companies that have failed to plug old wells and remove inactive platforms from obtaining ...
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Petition Seeks Halt to Sales of Fur From Colorado’s Wildlife
DENVER— The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a formal rulemaking petition urging Colorado Parks and Wildlife to prohibit the commercial sale of furs taken from the state’s wildlife. In ...
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Public Lands Lovers to Protest Interior Secretary Monday at Western Governors’ Meeting
Public lands supporters will protest Monday outside the Western Governors’ Association’s annual meeting, where Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is scheduled to give the keynote address. Burgum and ...
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Judge to Hear Arguments on Restoring Wolf Protections in Northern Rockies
Conservation and animal advocates will present oral arguments Wednesday in a federal court case that will decide whether the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service unlawfully refused to restore federal ...
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9th Circuit Deals Setback to Willow Oil Project in Alaska
SAN FRANCISCO— The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided today that the Department of the Interior unlawfully approved ConocoPhillips's massive Willow oil-drilling project in Alaska's Western ...
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Livestock Damaging Endangered Wildlife Habitat in Sierra Nevada National Forests
The Center for Biological Diversity today released documentation showing widespread damage to critical habitat for the Sierra ...
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Trump Signs Illegal Attack on California’s Clean Car Authority
President Trump signed illegal congressional resolutions today to use the Congressional Review Act, or CRA, to block ...
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Pangolins Proposed for U.S. Endangered Species Act Protections
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed listing seven species of pangolins as endangered under the Endangered Species Act, a move that would strengthen trade and import restrictions within ...
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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 ...
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Nearly 2,000 Acres of Critical Habitat Protected for Endangered Miami Tiger Beetle
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— Following a legal victory for the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today designated 1,869 acres of lifesaving ­­critical habitat for the ...
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Court: Federal Agencies Failed to Consider Biofuels’ Harms to Wildlife
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service unlawfully discounted the harms to threatened and endangered wildlife of ...