Trump Administration Hamstrings Ability to Conserve Wildlife Habitat
Amid a global biodiversity crisis, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to further weaken the Endangered Species Act will push numerous species that ...
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Forest Service Allows Loggers, Miners to Sidestep Environmental Reviews
The agency’s latest rollback will undercut science and transparency in determining how our national forests are maintained—all to rubber-stamp logging, mini...
Trump Gives Polluting Mining Projects a Pass
The administration’s latest executive order would allow one of the most damaging industries in the nation to skirt thorough environmental reviews. ...
Oil and Gas Industry Halts Its Efforts to Use Seismic Blasting in the Atlantic Ocean
In rare good news, the permits that allow fossil fuel companies to use deafening airguns—which harm many marine species—will expire on November 30 and not b...
Army Corps Pauses Permitting for Pebble Mine Due to Unavoidable Risks
The agency found that the proposed gold and copper mine would cause “unavoidable adverse impacts to aquatic resources” in Alaska’s pristine Bristol Bay wa...
With Thousands of Species on the Brink, Trump Administration Moves to Further Dismantle the Endangered Species Act
The Interior and Commerce Departments are making it harder for species to recover lost habitat—and the biodiversity and climate crises will only speed up. ...