Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations calls on Congress to hold a field hearing in Eureka, California on the effects of the Klamath Basin water shortage.
Earthjustice asked a federal court to order EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman to decide within 90 days whether Imperial Valley, CA must be reclassified under the Clean Air Act to a more serious air pollution category.
California developers filed a lawsuit in federal court in Washington, D.C., in an attempt to undo critical habitat protections for the threatened California red-legged frog (Rana aurora draytonii), the amphibian made famous by Mark Twain's story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."
Environmental and fishing groups ask a federal judge to order the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to address water quality standard violations caused by the operation of four dams on the lower Snake River.
Reacting to the critically ill nature of Lake Okeechobee, leading Florida environmental groups today appealed to Florida Governor Jeb Bush and the Cabinet to order a halt to the pumping of polluted water into the ecologically fragile lake.
The Fish and Wildlife Service has illegally delayed making a decision on petitions to list the Yosemite Toad and the Sierra Nevada population of the mountain yellow-legged frog.
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.
