The US Fish and Wildlife Service agreed today to designate protected critical habitat for 39 endangered plants and 10 endangered animals. The determination comes amid a legal victory stemming from a lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity.
Lawsuits are not as risky or costly as many grant makers believe — and are one of the best strategies for achieving lasting effects on a wide range of environmental issues.
The environmental group Tennessee Riverkeeper is part of a coalition challenging a Jan. 31 decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency not to update industrial pollution control technology standards that, in some cases, are 50 years out of date.
EPA pesticide officials “rushed to re-approve over-the-top dicamba uses” in 2020 to satisfy demands from senior political appointees in the Trump administration, environmental groups and the National Family Farm Coalition said in the latest filings in their court challenge to continued use of the herbicide.
The legal fight over sulfoxaflor, an insecticide used on a wide variety of crops, is expected to enter a new phase as EPA tries to give itself enough time to complete endangered species assessments and environmental groups continue to push for it to be taken off the market.
FloydFest — a music festival that takes place in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Floyd, VA — may be canceled this year due to concerns from environmentalists that construction would endanger rare turtle and butterfly species native to the area. The event was set to move to a new location this year, a few miles down the road from the farm where it’s been held since 2002. But yesterday The Roanoke Times reported that, though construction had started on the bridges and roads required to put on this year’s festival, the organizers proceeded without the proper permits.
The Western Watershed Project and the Center for Biological Diversity are suing the Bureau of Land Management over a vegetation removal project near Great Basin National Park.
Environmentalists and indigenous groups filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s approval of ConocoPhillips’s $8 billion Willow oil project in Alaska, arguing the government failed to consider smaller, greener options for development.
U.S. agencies have enlisted aerial shooters to cull about 150 cattle that trample habitats and threaten hikers in the Gila Wilderness. Cattle growers say the plan violates laws and regulations.