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In the News: WhoWhatWhy January 21, 2025

Not Out of the Woods: Grizzly Bears Stay on Endangered List but Trouble Looms

Mary Cochenour, Attorney, Northern Rockies Office: “There are videos of 399 walking through downtown Jackson in the middle of the night with her four cubs … She could have very easily been attracted to garbage and such, but the community always pulled together and worked really hard to remove those attractants in order to keep…

Earthjustice’s Senior Vice President of Programs, Sam Sankar, and Director of Strategic Legal Advocacy, Kirti Datla, pose for a portrait in front of the Supreme Court of the United States. (Melissa Lyttle for Earthjustice)
Article January 20, 2025

Mientras Trump Asume La Presidencia Nuevamente, Earthjustice No Cede Terreno

Sabemos que podemos salir victoriosos ante el presidente Trump y sus aliados, porque lo hemos hecho antes.

Earthjustice’s Senior Vice President of Programs, Sam Sankar, and Director of Strategic Legal Advocacy, Kirti Datla, pose for a portrait in front of the Supreme Court of the United States. (Melissa Lyttle for Earthjustice)
Article January 20, 2025

As Trump Takes Office Again, Earthjustice Is Ceding No Ground

One election will not deter us or erase the environmental progress we’ve achieved.

In the News: KGNU January 8, 2025

Efforts to halt wolf reintroduction “directly antithetical” to what Colorado voters want

Earthjustice attorney Tom Delehanty joined KGNU’s Jackie Sedley to discuss the petition to halt wolf reintroduction in Colorado and what a delay of more wolves could mean for the state.

A grizzly bear in a Montana forest. (Beth Hibschman / Getty Images)
Article January 8, 2025

How We’re Helping Grizzlies Come Back from the Brink

Grizzly bears are facing growing threats to their survival in the Northern Rockies. The government just took a step in the right direction by rejecting state appeals to remove their protections.

Grizzly bear near Wapiti Lake Trail in Yellowstone National Park. (Eric Johnston / NPS)
Press Release January 8, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on Fish & Wildlife Service’s Grizzly Bear Decision

Decision keeps federal protections but changes geographic scope of protections

Grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park, May 19, 2020. (Jim Peaco / NPS)
feature January 8, 2025

A New Vision for Grizzly Recovery

Science shows that true recovery of grizzly bears requires a unified population with connected ecosystems.

A golden-cheeked warbler in Austin, Texas. (Sergio Flores for Earthjustice )
Press Release January 7, 2025

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Review Announces Endangered Species Act Downlisting for Golden-Cheeked Warbler

Decision comes despite mounting threats to the warbler from development and climate change

Orcas in Puget Sound. (Tifotter / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
case December 20, 2024

Protecting Salmon and Orcas from Puget Sound Wastewater Pollution

Working with four nonprofit environmental organizations — Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, RE Sources, Toxic-Free Future, and Waste Action Project — Earthjustice advocated for more stringent pollution controls for the wastewater treatment plant to help protect salmon, orcas, and people.

The Lower Granite Dam is one of the four Lower Snake River dams.
(Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice)
Press Release December 17, 2024

Federal Agencies Plan to Revise Flawed Environmental Study for Columbia Basin Hydropower Operations

Salmon advocates commend the move to revise the study as a critical next step in a comprehensive plan to restore the Columbia Basin’s native fisheries

In a migration that takes at least four generations to complete, monarch butterflies make their way 2,500 miles across North America from Mexico to Canada. (Lisa Brown / CC BY-NC 2.0)
From the Experts December 17, 2024

The Monarch Has Been Proposed for the Endangered Species List. It Still Needs Better Protections From Pesticides.

Pesticide overuse is driving declines in insect pollinator populations globally posing a threat to human food systems, terrestrial food webs, and global biodiversity.

In a migration that takes at least four generations to complete, monarch butterflies make their way 2,500 miles across North America from Mexico to Canada. (Lisa Brown / CC BY-NC 2.0)
Press Release December 17, 2024

Pollinators Increasingly Disappearing from Pesticide Overuse and Lax Oversight

Following proposed monarch listing, Earthjustice and Xerces petition EPA to upgrade risk assessment data for pesticides

Grizzly bear near Swan Lake in Yellowstone National Park. (Neal Herbert / NPS)
Press Release December 11, 2024

‘Grizzly Bears Not Recovered’ Says Leading Biologist, 15 Regional & National Groups Petition for New Recovery Vision

Former U.S. Fish & Wildlife Grizzly Coordinator updates his own 30-year-old Recovery Plan

document December 11, 2024

Petition to U.S. FWS: Grizzly Bears

To revise the 1993 Recovery Plan for grizzly bears in the U.S. Northern Rockies using a metapopulation approach for lasting and sustainable recovery

Grizzly bear sow and cubs near Roaring Mountain in Yellowstone National Park. (Eric Johnston / NPS)
Press Release December 3, 2024

Local & National Groups Sue to Stop Unlimited Bitterroot Road Building

Local advocates tap Earthjustice to bring lawsuit aiming to protect vital grizzly bear corridor

A wild chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). (Neil Ever Osborne / Save Our Wild Salmon / iLCP)
Press Release November 21, 2024

Swinomish Tribal Community Seeks Legal Intervention to Mitigate Salmon-Harming Tidegates

Swinomish seeks to defend NOAA Fisheries Biological Opinion that protects ESA-listed Chinook Salmon, endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales

document November 21, 2024

Swinomish Indian Tribal Community’s Motion to Intervene to Support NOAA BiOp for Skagit Tide Gates

The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community filed a motion to intervene as a defendant to support NOAA Fisheries’ Biological Opinion (“BiOp”) that found Skagit Dike District 12’s No Name Slough tidegate complex replacement would result in “jeopardy” to ESA-listed Chinook salmon and endangered Southern Resident killer whales unless estuary habitat mitigation measures were completed.

A Newell's shearwater (ʻaʻo) on Kaua`i. (Jim Denny)
Article November 20, 2024

One Small Seabird Egg Offers Hope for Hawai‘i’s Biodiversity

The endemic Newell’s shearwater has a chance at survival thanks to an innovative team of conservationists, researchers, and Earthjustice lawyers.