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Trump Sage Grouse Policy is Industry Giveaway

March 15, 2019 Press Release

WASHINGTON – Acting Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt today is finalizing the agency’s plan for managing the greater sage grouse, among other species, on some 11 million acres of Western lands.

Federal Government Attempting to Strip Protections from Gray Wolves…Again

March 6, 2019 Press Release

WASHINGTON – For the second time in five years, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has released a proposal to strip gray wolves of Endangered Species Act protections in the lower-48 states. The Endangered Species Act requires federal…

Conservation Groups Sue Trump Administration to Protect the Gulf of Mexico Whale

February 21, 2019 Press Release

Federal agency ignored deadline to list imperiled species as Endangered

Groups seek court order blocking Atlantic Seismic Blasting

February 20, 2019 Press Release

Charleston, SC — A group of conservation organizations today asked a federal judge to block the start of harmful seismic airgun blasting in the Atlantic Ocean until the case can be fully heard in court.

America Has Lost an Extraordinary Environmental Champion

February 7, 2019 Press Release

WASHINGTON - Former Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.), the longest-serving member of the House of Representatives and a leading environmental champion, passed away today. 

Trump Nominates Another Industry Lobbyist as Secretary of Interior

February 4, 2019 Press Release

President Trump today nominated acting Secretary David Bernhardt as the next Secretary of the Interior.

Vineyard Wind, Conservation Groups Reach Historic Agreement to Protect Right Whales

January 23, 2019 Press Release

BOSTON - Vineyard Wind and the Natural Resources Defense Council, the National Wildlife Federation, and Conservation Law Foundation today entered into an unprecedented agreement to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales.

Groups Sue Feds to Stop Seismic Airgun Blasting in Atlantic Ocean

December 11, 2018 Press Release

First Step Toward Offshore Drilling Jeopardizes Critically Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale, Puts Marine Life at Risk

Farm Bill Negotiators Ditch Environmental Rollbacks

December 11, 2018 Press Release

WASHINGTON – Congressional negotiators released a compromise farm bill today that largely steers clear of undercutting bedrock environmental protections.

Trump to Move to Increase Water Pollution

December 11, 2018 Press Release

WASHINGTON - The Trump Administration will propose today to gut key safeguards in the Clean Water Act. The Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers are set to issue a proposed rule that would exempt oil drillers, industrial sites…

Trump Administration to OK Blasting for Oil and Gas in Atlantic

November 30, 2018 Press Release

Seismic Testing, First Step Toward Offshore Drilling, Threatens Marine Wildlife and Fisheries

Court of Appeals Upholds U.S. Ban on Mexican Seafood Imports to Save Vaquita

November 28, 2018 Press Release

In a victory for one of Earth’s most endangered marine mammals, a third U.S. court decision today upheld a four-month-old ban on importing Mexican shrimp and other seafood caught with gillnets that drown vaquita porpoises.

House Votes to Strip Endangered Species Act Protections for Gray Wolves Across the U.S.

November 16, 2018 Press Release

WASHINGTON D.C. — In its first scheduled vote of the lame duck session, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation today that would strip Endangered Species Act protections for imperiled gray wolves across the continental United States and prohibit judicial…

Conservation Groups Respond to Decision not to Issue Emergency Protections for Endangered Whales

November 2, 2018 Press Release

The federal government announced today that it refuses to issue an emergency order to protect endangered killer whales under the Species at Risk Act, despite the Minister of Environment and Climate Change and the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans’ recommendation…

Canada Urged to Expand Fisheries Closures to Save North Atlantic Right Whale

November 1, 2018 Press Release

OTTAWA— Wildlife and animal-protection groups submitted recommendations today urging Canada’s fishery management agency to continue and expand protections for critically imperiled North Atlantic right whales. Following an unprecedented 12 right whale deaths in Canadian waters in 2017, Fisheries and Oceans…

Congress Set To Attack American Wildlife This Week

September 26, 2018 Press Release

WASHINGTON – This week Congress will turn its attention to a series of bills that threaten to undermine the Endangered Species Act. Today, the House Natural Resources Committee is holding a legislative hearing on a suite of nine bills that…

230+ Groups Oppose Trump Administration Plan to Cripple Endangered Species Act

September 20, 2018 Press Release

Court Orders Seafood Import Ban to Save Mexico’s Vaquita Porpoise

July 26, 2018 Press Release

NEW YORK— Responding to a lawsuit filed by conservation groups, the U.S. Court of International Trade today ordered the Trump administration to ban seafood imports from Mexico caught with gillnets that kill the critically endangered vaquita porpoise. As few as…

Trump Administration Moves to Weaken Endangered Species Protections

July 19, 2018 Press Release

WASHINGTON - The Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service today set out to weaken critical protections offered by the Endangered Species Act.

The Endangered Species Act Under Attack in Congress

July 12, 2018 Press Release

The Congressional Western Caucus today announced a package of nine bills to gut the Endangered Species Act, the most effective law for protecting wildlife from extinction.