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Endangered Owls Deserve Protections, Court Rules

Permits for timber sales in the Rogue River Basin were based on "arbitrary and capricious" statements, and not scientific fact.

Court Invalidates Old-Growth Forest Logging
FWS must monitor logging impacts on threatened and endangered species
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to Hold Hearing on Global Warming
"Good News" says Nobel-nominee Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Court Faults EPA Approval of Field Burning in Idaho
Grass burning sends unhealthy levels of smoke, soot into homes and communities
A Cleaner Future for the Anacostia River

One of the dirtiest rivers in the nation finally has a chance to recover from years of pollution.

Supreme Court Denies Petition Seeking Weaker Pollution Limits for Anacostia River
One of the nation's most polluted rivers will finally see cleaner waters
Polluting Lake Okeechobee Declared Illegal

Earthjustice attorneys in our Tallahassee office sued the South Florida Water Management District in federal court to stop polluting Lake Okeechobee .The water district, backed by industrial sugar producers, the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, argued that the Clean Water Act did not apply to this pollution pumping. However in December 2006 the court ruled against them. The court found that the water district had repeatedly violated the law by polluting Lake Okeechobee.

Anti-Environmental Judicial Nominee Myers Withdraws
Bi-partisan Senate action and environmental concerns defeated 9th Circuit nominee
Smog Rules Illegally Weakened, Court Says
EPA must reinstate pollution limits on factories, trucks, and cars
Industry Attempt to Strip Orca Protections Tossed by Federal Court
Judge denies standing to farm, development interests
EPA Responds to Environmentalists' Call for Stronger Pollution Limit to Protect Chesapeake Bay
Agency proposes tighter pollution permit for region's largest sewage plant
Northern Rockies Grizzly Bears Win One in Court

A federal judge has rejected a U.S. Forest Service plan to manage roads in habitat for two critically imperiled grizzly bear populations in northwest Montana, northern Idaho and northeast Washington.

Judge Rejects Road Plan For Grizzly Bear Habitat
Road concentration harming bears in Montana and Idaho
Court Rules Pumping Polluted Water into Lake Okeechobee Violates Clean Water Act
Decision affects pending EPA rule that proposes allowing "pollution pumping" nationwide
Court Orders Roadless Rule Implemented Against Oil and Gas Drilling
Road building prohibited on 327 oil and gas leases issued by Bush administration in National Forest roadless areas