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Trump agencies proposed weakening Endangered Species Act rules

Federal agencies failed to prevent harm to threatened polar bears when they opened the entire Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing

Federal regulators are allowing the challenged lease sale to move forward without any additional measures to protect endangered beluga whales

Legislation puts gray wolf recovery in jeopardy and defies science

The Trump administration wants to expand drilling across U.S. coastlines, endangering Pacific wildlife and communities.

Bill would reduce critical protections for imperiled plants and animals

An exploratory project in the Western Arctic would harm wildlife, sensitive ecosystems, and Alaska Native communities.

Interior approved ConocoPhillips’ plan to explore for more oil near its Willow project without addressing the harm it will cause to wildlife and sensitive ecosystems

Conservation groups and an Iñupiat-led grassroots organization seek to overturn the Trump administration’s approval of ConocoPhillips’ winter seismic and exploration drilling program in the Western Arctic.

All the ways the Trump administration is targeting endangered species and their habitats for corporate profits — and how you can help.

Six Earthjustice attorneys share what motivates them to keep fighting for the planet and its people.

Kristen Boyles, Managing Attorney, Northwest Office: “The Services are required to prevent harmful consequences to species, not ignore them.”

Already, over one-third of plant and animal species in the U.S. are at risk of disappearing.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to finalize Endangered Species Act protections for California spotted owls it proposed in 2023

The Center for Biological Diversity, represented by Earthjustice, brings this action under the federal Endangered Species Act to compel the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to take the statutorily required action of making a final determination on the proposed listing of two distinct population segments of the California spotted owl occurring in California and Nevada as endangered and threatened species.

Set of proposed rules would hollow out bedrock environmental law

Earthjustice fights to protect imperiled species and the habitats that support their lives — and ours. Here are highlights of our work to defend our natural world over the past year, and a glimpse at what’s next.

Commission misses opportunity to set longer protections for female horseshoe crabs