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Missing lynx: Advocates challenge Feds’ refusal to prepare recovery plan
Today, a coalition of conservation organizations filed a complaint in federal court challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (the Service’s) decision to forgo recovery planning for threatened Canada lynx. Recovery plans are important tools required by the...
Lame-duck Trump administration once again undermines America’s bedrock environmental law
Tomorrow, the Trump administration will publish in the Federal Register important changes to the U.S. Forest Service’s regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) that will undermine environmental review of and public engagement in a suite of...
Federal court again slams Trump administration for ignoring climate consequences of selling public lands for fracking
Late last Friday, a federal court ruled that the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (the Bureau) failed to disclose the climate impacts of selling more than 300,000 acres—or 475 square miles—of public lands for fracking and oil and gas...
Wolf coalition launches challenge to nationwide wolf delisting
On Friday, Nov. 6, a coalition of Western wolf advocates filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, launching a challenge of the agency’s decision to prematurely strip wolves of federal protections in the contiguous 48 states, in violation of...
Wolves: Groups will challenge Trump admin removal of endangered species protections in lower 48
Today, the Trump administration will announce its decision to prematurely remove endangered species protections for wolves in the lower 48 states, in violation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The most recent data from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its...
Trump administration agrees to review climate implications of selling 1.8 million acres of public lands for fracking in American West
A federal court late last Friday agreed to allow the Trump administration to conduct a legally required review of the climate consequences of selling public lands for fracking across the western U.S. “The law is clear, and our cases have cemented that the federal...
Lawsuit challenges Pendley over 1.7 million-acre fossil fuel plan in Colorado
Climate groups filed new legal claims today challenging the federal government’s 1.7 million-acre resource-management plan (RMP) to expand fossil fuel development in southwestern Colorado, saying it should be overturned because it was approved during William Perry...
Judge denies motion, opening door to lawsuits challenging Pendley decisions spanning 30 million acres of public land
A federal judge denied a motion from conservation groups today to support a lawsuit involving William Perry Pendley’s unlawful tenure as acting director of the Bureau of Land Monument, opening the door to new lawsuits challenging Pendley’s decisions on land management...
Western conservation group sues Trump administration over secretive coal council
Today, on behalf of the Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC), Democracy Forward and the Western Environmental Law Center sued the Trump administration for violating the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) by refusing to make fully public the meetings and...
Feds flout science–once again–to deny wolverine protections
Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) issued a decision—once again—to deny much-needed Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections to imperiled wolverine, which number about 300 in the contiguous U.S. The new decision follows a 2016 Western Environmental...
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