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EPA Greenlights More Toxic Tailpipe Pollution

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
The Environmental Protection Agency proposed delaying new standards that would limit toxic tailpipe pollution that cause soot and smog.
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The Cost of the United States’ Dependence on Oil

Ed Board MemoUnited StatesAlexandra Adams
The country's entire economy is more vulnerable to oil price and supply shocks. In a global market, that means there’s one solution: Reduce dependence on oil.

Trump Administration Repeals Landmark Public Lands Rule

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
The Department of the Interior repealed the Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands Rule, eliminating the regulatory requirement that conservation be weighed alongside mining, drilling, timber, and grazing across 245 million acres of public lands.

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Zinke Move Threatens Western Sage Grouse to Advance Oil and Gas Leasing

Press ReleaseUnited States
In a sweeping decision that threatens massive swaths of land, hundreds of species and precious wildlife habitat, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today moved to roll back a conservation plan for the greater sage grouse on western U.S. lands.

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

Press ReleaseCanada
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 Canada…

Congress Set To Attack American Wildlife This Week

Press ReleaseUnited States
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 would weaken…

Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration’s Trophy Hunting Council

Press ReleaseUnited States, International
Conservation and animal protection groups sued the Trump administration today for illegally establishing the “International Wildlife Conservation Council,” an advisory panel stacked with people who have personal or financial interests in killing or importing rare or endangered animals from overseas.

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

Press ReleaseMexico
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 15 vaquita…

The Endangered Species Act Under Attack in Congress

Press ReleaseUnited States
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.

Lawsuits Seek to Restore Protections for Migratory Birds

Press ReleaseUnited States
A coalition of national environmental groups today filed litigation, Natural Resources Defense Council v. Department of the Interior, in the Southern District of New York challenging the Trump Administration’s move to eliminate longstanding protections for waterfowl, raptors, and songbirds under…