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

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.

10(j) rule identified one possible source of wolves, not a mandated population

Rep. Hageman’s H.R. 281 requires DOI to reissue 2017 delisting rule and bars judicial review

Letter to Members of Congress opposing the Biological Opinion on the Federally Regulated Oil and Gas Program Activities in the Gulf of Mexico Provision in the Reconciliation Bill.

Scientists, legal experts, and environmental groups also urge Trump administration to drop proposed rule

Groups express wide opposition to proposed legislation

Hearing comes amid large-scale firings at U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services

Government dismisses appeal of court decision limiting road building in grizzly, bull trout habitat

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.

Decision keeps federal protections but changes geographic scope of protections

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

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service will revisit lead ammunition decision in Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge

Local and national conservation groups announced an agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that will result in the Service revisiting an earlier decision to cancel a phase out of lead ammunition on Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge in West Virginia.

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

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

Local and national wildlife conservation groups filed a lawsuit challenging federal agencies’ plans to allow increased road building in the Bitterroot National Forest that would cause harm to grizzly bears and bull trout; both of which are listed as Threatened under the Endangered Species Act.