Friends of the Earth, Healthy Gulf, and Sierra Club filed suit over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ illegal approval of a massive pumping station that would have devastating impacts on some of the country’s richest wetlands and hundreds of species of wildlife in a sparsely developed area of Mississippi.
Habitat destruction is the number one cause of extinction. This lawless proposal would eliminate the Endangered Species Act’s core protections against it.
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.
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.”
