endangered-species

April 22, 2026

Legislation from Rep. Westerman would have drastically weakened bedrock environmental law

April 9, 2026

Sierra Club joins advocacy groups in suing U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Army Corps of Engineers

April 2, 2026

Lawsuit claims Trump's use of 'Extinction Committee' violates law in numerous ways

March 31, 2026

Endangered Species Committee cites ‘national security concerns’ in unanimous vote to exempt all Gulf oil and gas activities from Endangered Species Act

March 30, 2026

Bedrock Environmental Law Restored to Pre-Trump Status

March 26, 2026

‘God Squad’ federal panel to meet next week to address exemption request

March 17, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C.

March 2, 2026

GREAT FALLS, MONTANA — The Sierra Club has joined multiple conservation groups in suing the Bureau of Land Management to challenge its final plans governing greater sage grouse management across 71 million acres of federal public lands in nine Western states. The lawsuit covers the dwindling species’ habitat in Montana, Idaho, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nevada, California, Utah and Wyoming.

January 22, 2026

Proposal from Rep. Gosar, HR 4255, would push critically endangered animal closer to extinction

December 22, 2025

Proposed rules would undermine nation's most successful conservation law

December 18, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 211-204 to pass HR 845, the Pet and Livestock Protection Act, which would strip protections from gray wolves across the continental U.S. The bill, sponsored by Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Tom Tiffany (R-WI), would remove Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in the U.S. within 60 days, and would also deny judicial review of the delisting.

December 17, 2025

Proposal from Rep. Westerman would gut another bedrock environmental law