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April 14, 2000 | Press Release

CONSERVATION AND FISHING GROUPS SUE TO ENFORCE FISH PROTECTIONS IN SAN JOAQUIN WATER ALLOTMENTS

A coalition of environmental groups, commercial and sport fishermen filed suit today in California Superior Court to force the State Water Resources Control Board to implement protective measures for chinook salmon required under federal and state law. Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund is asking the State Water Resources Control Board to rewrite a March 15, 2000, decision allocating water rights along the San Joaquin River.

April 6, 2000 | Press Release

CONSERVATIONISTS OPPOSE BOISE CASCADE ATTACK ON FOREST PROTECTION INITIATIVE

Earthjustice Legal Defense intervened today against Boise Cascade's lawsuit challenging the U.S. Forest Service's roadless area protection initiative. The action was taken on behalf of American Lands Alliance, Idaho Conservation League, Oregon Natural Resources Council, Pacific Rivers Council, Sierra Club and The Wilderness Society.

April 6, 2000 | Press Release

SUIT FILED TO PROTECT RIVERS AND ENDANGERED SPECIES IN LINCOLN NATIONAL FOREST

Forest Service Ignoring Degradation Caused by Overgrazing

April 6, 2000 | Press Release

ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS THREATEN LAWSUIT OVER UNLOADING OF TOXIC PCB SHIP AT SEATTLE HARBOR

The Sierra Club and Asia Pacific Environmental Exchange today threatened a lawsuit over the off-loading of a shipment of toxic waste used by U.S. military bases in Japan. The off-loading violates U.S. law and could give rise to over $750,000 in penalties.

April 4, 2000 | Press Release

OIL AND GAS LEASES IN SHOSHONE NATIONAL FOREST CHALLENGED IN FEDERAL COURT

Key Grizzly Bear Habitat Threatened

April 3, 2000 | Press Release

Citizen Suit To Protect Habitat For Guam Endangered Species

Seven endangered species need legal protection to survive

March 30, 2000 | Press Release

Groups Sue to Protect Endangered Sea Lions

Greenpeace, American Oceans Campaign, and Sierra Club Alaska asked a federal court to exclude all groundfish trawl fishing from vital Steller sea lion habitat.

March 10, 2000 | Press Release

Conservationists Win Court Challenge to Give Manatees and Sea Turtles Constitutional Protection

Florida conservationists claimed a major victory today when a Leon County Circuit Court Judge ruled that the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWCC), which was created by voters in a constitutional revision in November 1998, has constitutional authority over endangered and threatened marine species.

March 7, 2000 | Press Release

Court Backs Forest Service Decision Not to Offer Oil and Gas Leases on Rocky Mountain Front

Public Opposition a Valid Criteria for USFS Decision

February 24, 2000 | Press Release

Court Asked to Close Lobster Fishery to Protect Monk Seal in Hawaii

Greenpeace Foundation, Center for Biological Diversity, and Turtle Island Restoration Network, plaintiffs in a federal court lawsuit filed in January seeking to protect the critically endangered Hawaiian monk seal from the impacts of commercial fishing in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, have gone into court asking Judge Samuel P. King to issue a preliminary injunction preventing the commercial lobster fishery from opening this year.

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