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Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rules federal government violating law with timber sales in threatened salmon habitat.

Dr. Jane Goodall joins religious leaders, conservationists, and celebrities in calling for a halt to the Bush administration's plan to weaken the ESA through funding cuts and policy changes that would undermine citizen oversight and leave species listing decisions almost entirely in the hands of the Secretary of Interior.

A coalition of environmental organizations and states today filed a lawsuit against the US Environmental Protection Agency stating that the agency's mobile source air toxics rule falls far short of fulfilling legal requirements of the Clean Air Act.

Environmental groups sued the National Marine Fisheries Service, the Department of Commerce, and Donald L. Evans, Secretary of Commerce, challenging the decision to authorize continued killing of endangered leatherback and green sea turtles by the Hawai`i-based longline fishery.

Bush administration will delay until February a rule to strengthen the standards for arsenic in drinking water.

Quoting Scripture and speaking with a powerful moral voice, thirty-nine of the nation's most senior religious leaders released an open letter to President Bush, the Congress and the American people, calling for moral reflection on the country's energy policy.

Responding to today's release of the Bush administration's energy policy, Buck Parker, executive director of Earthjustice said, "We are deeply concerned by several aspects of President Bush's energy policy..."

Earthjustice gave testimony before a joint committee of the California state legislature on international trade and California's attempts to protect its drinking water from MTBE contamination.

Malama Makua, represented by Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, will return to court to challenge the US Army's claim that resuming live-fire training and related activities at Makua Military Reservation on O`ahu would have no significant impact on the more than 40 endangered species and dozens of sacred and cultural sites found at Makua and on neighboring communities.

A coalition of environmental groups, represented by Earthjustice, filed suit in federal district court to force the Federal Aviation Administration to consider the growth-inducing impacts of an airport expansion project in the town of Mammoth Lakes in the eastern Sierra Nevada.