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October 19, 2000
Anti-Environmental Rider Attempts to Undermine Court Order Protecting Endangered Steller Sea Lions
A major anti-environmental rider is being proposed that would prevent endangered Steller sea lions from receiving the protection of two of our Nation's basic federal environmental laws.
August 8, 2000
SEA LION INJUNCTION GOES INTO EFFECT
The ban on trawl fishing in critical habitat for endangered Steller sea lions, ordered last month by a federal court in Seattle, is set to take effect at noon Pacific time August 8th.
July 20, 2000
Court Orders Major Fishery Changes for Steller Sea Lions
A Federal Court ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service must implement immediate and significant changes to the Alaska groundfish fisheries in order to protect endangered Steller sea lions.
March 30, 2000
Groups Sue to Protect Endangered Sea Lions
Greenpeace, American Oceans Campaign, and Sierra Club Alaska asked a federal court to exclude all groundfish trawl fishing from vital Steller sea lion habitat.
January 27, 2000
Judge Orders Full Evaluation of North Pacific Fishery to Protect Steller Sea Lions
In a second sweeping opinion, the federal district court of the Western District of Washington ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service is in continuing violation of the Endangered Species Act in its management of the North Pacific groundfish fisheries, the largest fishery in the North America.
August 5, 1999
Conservationists Sue to Protect Tongass Roadless Areas
Conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service because, in developing the new plan for Alaska's Tongass National Forest, the agency failed to consider permanent wilderness area protection for any portion of the millions of acres of undeveloped wild lands on the Tongass.
July 9, 1999
Judge Rules for North Pacific Ecosystem
In a landmark decision, a federal court found that National Marine Fisheries Service's management of the giant North Pacific fisheries is illegal.
December 4, 1998
Steller Sea Lions in Jeopardy
Steller sea lions are in jeopardy of going extinct if new fishery management actions aren't adopted soon in waters off of Alaska.
December 2, 1998
Political Wave Descending on Sea Lions
Political pressure from members of Congress may thwart a plan to prevent the extinction of the world's largest sea lion.
October 5, 1998
Suit Filed to Block Leasing in America's Arctic
Coalition files suit in federal district court against Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt to challenge the imminent leasing of more than four million acres of federal land in northwestern Alaska for oil and gas development.
April 15, 1998
North Pacific Ecosystem in Trouble: Environmentalists Sue NMFS to Protect Top Ocean Predators Agree to Clean up Pollution at Navy Yard and Southeast Federal Center
Environmental groups file lawsuit demanding that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) take action to prevent the collapse of the North Pacific ecosystem.