January 29, 2020
WASHINGTON— A federal judge on Tuesday overturned a decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect northern long-eared bats as threatened rather than endangered under the Endangered Species Act.
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January 28, 2020
Washington, DC-- Tomorrow (1/29), the House Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on several wildlife conservation bills-- including the Protect America’s Wildlife and Fish in Need of Protection Act (PAW and FIN Act) that will undo the Trump administration’s recent rollbacks to the Endangered Species Act.
October 15, 2019
Conservation groups today blasted a U.S. Forest Service decision to authorize continued livestock grazing in the Bridger-Teton National Forest. The forest encompasses the headwaters of the Green River, an area important for grizzly bear recovery and elk, deer and pronghorn migrations. The Service itself determined that the plan’s grazing is “likely to adversely affect” grizzly bears, which are protected under the Endangered Species Act.
September 24, 2019
Today the House Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife will hold a hearing a suite of bills to strengthen protections for endangered species. Included is the Protect America’s Wildlife and Fish in Need (PAW and FIN) of Conservation Act, which reverses recent Trump administration rollbacks to the highly successful Endangered Species Act. The hearing comes at the same time the Western Caucus is holding a roundtable to unveil a number of bills that would further undermine endangered species protections.
September 17, 2019
WASHINGTON, DC: Today, Representatives Grijalva, Beyer, and Dingell introduced the Protect America’s Wildlife and Fish in Need of Protection Act. A companion bill was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Udall. The bill reverses recent Trump administrations rollbacks to the highly successful Endangered Species Act.
September 6, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the EPA must comply with the Endangered Species Act by evaluating harm to endangered and threatened species when setting corn ethanol volumes in the national gasoline supply.
August 21, 2019
Environmental and animal protection groups today sued the Trump administration over its new regulations that dramatically weaken the Endangered Species Act.
August 13, 2019
BOULDER, COLORADO – The Sierra Club and Nature Needs Half, an international coalition formed in 2009 to advance the protection of 50% of Earth’s land and seas, proudly announce a new partnership to help halt the Sixth Extinction and provide a feasible and affordable solution to the climate crisis.
August 12, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, against a backdrop of recent reports of global mass extinction, the Trump administration released final regulations weakening the Endangered Species Act, the nation’s most effective tool in saving wildlife from extinction.
August 2, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Trump administration today is expected to publish new conservation plans for the endangered greater sage grouse. The revised plans, which will apply to lands managed by the Forest Service, follow rollbacks adopted by the Interior Department earlier this year. Together the plans will undermine sage grouse conservation efforts on millions of acres of public land across western states, and set back carefully-crafted plans years in the making.
July 17, 2019
Rock Springs, WY-- The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission will meet on July 18th and 19th to decide whether or not to require hunters to carry bear spray in grizzly bear habitat, how to control the spread of chronic wasting disease, and adopt regulations for wolf hunting, among other topics.
July 15, 2019
Almost two million Americans stated their opposition to the Trump administration’s proposal to strip endangered species protections from gray wolves in a comment period that closed today. This is one of the largest numbers of comments ever submitted on a federal decision involving endangered species and reflects broad dissatisfaction with the Trump administration’s politically driven move to turn wolf management over to state agencies across most of the lower 48 states.