The Latest On: Endangered Species Act
July 19, 2018
| In the News: Courthouse News
Judge Probes Study Used to Revoke Fisher Protections
Elizabeth Forsyth, Attorney, Earthjustice: “They’re using this conclusion to say therefore toxicants is not a problem — even though the most recent study in the record showed exposure to toxicants is growing and increasingly causing mortality.”
July 19, 2018
| In the News: Montana Public Radio
USFWS Proposes Endangered Species Act Changes
Tim Preso, Managing Attorney, Earthjustice: "For virtually each one of these, it's a proposal to narrow the Act's applications, to reduce its protections, to make it harder to protect habitat, to make it harder to list species. And the cumulative effects of all of these little changes is going to be a significant erosion of our bedrock law for protecting imperiled wildlife."
July 19, 2018
| Press Release
Zinke’s New Department of Interior Regulations Target Wildlife Protections
June 28, 2018
| In the News: Courthouse News
Jurisdiction Debated in Fight of Okinawa Military Base
Sarah Burt, Attorney, International Program: “It’s mandated that the government talk to the communities themselves. It’s like the government building a base on sacred Hawaiian and saying ‘we’re not going talk to the native communities but we’ll talk to an anthropologist from the University of Hawaii.’”
June 24, 2018
| In the News: Billings Gazette
Rushed Strategy Could Backfire, Grizzly Advocates Warn
Josh Purtle, Attorney, Earthjustice: “We agree there shouldn’t be an infinite loop of comment and revision. But when you’re pulling the rug out on the public, that makes previous public comment not meaningful.”