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Reacting to a bill introduced in the House of Representatives yesterday, Earthjustice warned that the measure is the latest in an increasingly long line of efforts to roll back environmental protections in the United States.

Reacting to indications from the Bush Administration that it intends to roll back protections for the nation's national forests, leaders from Congress and the environmental and religious communities today held a press conference on Capitol Hill to demand full and immediate implementation of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule.

Environmental and smart growth groups joined the defense of the Save Agriculture and Open Space Lands Initiative ("Measure D") in Alameda County Superior Court against a legal attack by development interests who had opposed it.

A court order that halted logging in roadless areas of the Tongass National Forest was defended in court by forest conservation groups.

Florida's endangered manatee population received a welcome boost in a landmark legal settlement reached between conservationists and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Instead of asking Congress to adequately fund the US Fish and Wildlife Service's division that enforces the Endangered Species Act the administration is seeking to strip key provisions from the Act to make it cheaper to administer.

The Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Nevada Forest Protection Campaign and other conservation groups notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of their intention to sue the agency for failing to protect the California spotted owl and Pacific fisher under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

The US District Court for the District of Alaska ruled that the Forest Service violated federal laws when the agency refused to consider any new wilderness areas in the 1997 Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Tongass Land Management Plan Revision.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is in violation of the Endangered Species Act ("ESA") in its operation of the Klamath Project in southern Oregon and northern California.