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Utah sought to dismiss lawsuit over its failure to protect the Great Salt Lake

If the Trump administration breaks the law to hold timber sales, we will see them in court.

A state district court judge paved the way for a landmark public trust suit over Utah’s failure to protect the Great Salt Lake to move forward, despite the objections of state officials.

Government dismisses appeal of court decision limiting road building in grizzly, bull trout habitat

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals approved a motion from the federal government to dismiss its appeal of a decision limiting road building in grizzly bear and bull trout habitat in Flathead National Forest.

Aaron Bloom, Attorney, Biodiversity Defense Program: “We take the lawsuit seriously, given the threat that that argument poses to the Endangered Species Act and the uncertainty of how the Trump administration will respond to it.”

Groups move to block effort to rescind Endangered Species Act protections

Motion to Protect Florida Scrub-Jay

Court affirms district court’s invalidation of more than 100 oil and gas leases

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2020 decision that struck down the basis for the previous Trump administration’s oil and gas leasing on more than a million acres of public lands in key habitat for sage grouse, an iconic bird species of the Western United States.

Decision comes despite mounting threats to the warbler from development and climate change

Pesticide overuse is driving declines in insect pollinator populations globally posing a threat to human food systems, terrestrial food webs, and global biodiversity.

Following proposed monarch listing, Earthjustice and Xerces petition EPA to upgrade risk assessment data for pesticides

Earthjustice, on behalf of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to swiftly correct flaws in its framework for assessing pesticide risks to pollinators. Currently, the EPA only requires pesticide manufacturers to submit limited data concerning pesticide impacts on adult honey bees.

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service will revisit lead ammunition decision in Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge

Local and national conservation groups announced an agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that will result in the Service revisiting an earlier decision to cancel a phase out of lead ammunition on Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge in West Virginia.

Henessa Gumiran is a Litigation Paralegal with the Biodiversity Defense Program. She provides litigation support on matters ranging from protecting Mexican gray wolves to challenging harmful mineral exploration projects in the Patagonia Mountains.

Fish hatchery caused osprey breeding population collapse along 20 miles of the Yellowstone River