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Wildlife group sues for bat-disease documents
Seattle Post Intelligencer
The Center For Biological Diversity filed its lawsuit Wednesday after the Forest Service withheld 13 pages of records from the advocacy group's Freedom of Information Act request. Center spokeswoman Mollie Matteson says the documents may explain why ...
Lawsuit Filed to Force Forest Service to Release Crucial Bat DocumentsCenter for Biological Diversity (press release)

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CBC.ca

Groups sue to protect beluga whales in Alaska
MiamiHerald.com
The plaintiffs are the Native Village of Chickaloon, Natural Resources Defense Council, Center for Biological Diversity and Center for Water Advocacy. They claim the National Marine Fisheries Service improperly issued exploration permits to Apache ...
Alaska Oil and Gas Drilling Threaten Endangered WhalesKansas City infoZine
Lawsuit Filed to Protect Endangered Beluga Whales From Alaska Oil and Gas DrillingCenter for Biological Diversity (press release)

all 163 news articles »
 

Royal Dutch Shell plc .com

Breaking: Shell Sues the Center for Biological Diversity - Again
Care2.com (blog)
by Alex Ralston, Center for Biological Diversity Shell Oil has done it again. The oil giant just filed another lawsuit against the Center for Biological Diversity and 13 other environmental groups who are trying to protect the Arctic from dangerous ...
More Than 1 Million People Urge White House to Stop Shell's Arctic DrillingCenter for Biological Diversity (press release)
Environment: Shell's readiness on Arctic drilling challengedSummit County Citizens Voice

all 12 news articles »
 

Suit Filed Against Expansion of Navajo Coal Mine Polluting Four Corners Region
Center for Biological Diversity (press release)
Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment (CARE), San Juan Citizens Alliance, Center for Biological Diversity, Amigos Bravos and the Sierra Club are represented in the case by the Western Environmental Law Center.

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Bellingham Herald

Protection sought for 2 plants on Hanford Reach
Bellingham Herald
“Each of these plants is found on only one spot on Earth, so the act's powerful protection is crucial to their survival,” said Noah Greenwald, the endangered species director for the Center for Biological Diversity, in a statement.
Protection proposed for rare plants at Hanford Reach National MonumentMid Columbia Tri City Herald

all 12 news articles »
 

KHTS Radio

Is groundbreaking in sight for Newhall Ranch development?
LA Observed
The Arizona-based Center for Biological Diversity and other environmental groups filed another lawsuit challenging the supervisors' approval of Phase 1, known as Landmark Village. Lauffer said it would not come as a surprise if Tuesday's board decision ...
Newhall Ranch Megadevelopment Now Fully ApprovedCurbed
Supervisors OK second phase of Newhall RanchSignal

all 5 news articles »
 

Chicago Supports Clean Air Act, Joins Urgent Call for Climate-change Action
Center for Biological Diversity (press release)
Through a May 9 resolution, Chicago is the 25th city to join the Center for Biological Diversity's national Clean Air Cities campaign, which urges national leaders to take action on global warming. "We need strong air-pollution standards for the sake ...

 

AZ Game and Fish Opposes Grand Canyon Watershed National Monument
lakepowelllife
The Grand Canyon Watershed National Monument is being proposed by the Grand Canyon Wildlands Council, Center for Biological Diversity and the Wilderness Society. The proposal encompasses 1.7 million acres of mostly public land spread across five ...

 

FuelFix (blog)

Environmental groups challenge Shells Arctic drilling permits
FuelFix (blog)
The coalition challenging the air permit includes Earthustice, the Alaska Wilderness League, the Center for Biological Diversity, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Northern Alaska Environmental Center, Pacific Environment, ...

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Is There a Bigger Environmental Issue Than Climate Change? Scientists Say Yes.
KCET (blog)
Of national groups, only the Center for Biological Diversity has an explicit emphasis on diversity and extinction regardless of cause. On the "About us" page of the venerable group Defenders of Wildlife, which you might expect would be generally ...

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APNewsBreak: Protection sought for rare woodpecker
Fox News
Co-petitioners are the Center for Biological Diversity based in Tucson, Ariz., the Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project in Fossil, Ore., and the Biodiversity Conservation Alliance in Laramie, Wyo. Hanson, a wildlife ecologist at the University of ...

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Andalusia Star-News

Environmental groups push for Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake habitat designation
CBS42
This finding stems from a petition submitted last summer by the Center for Biological Diversity, the Coastal Plains Institute Inc., Protecting all Living Species, and One More Generation. The decision, known as a 90-day finding finds that the petition ...
Rattler may qualify for protectionAndalusia Star-News
Venomous SC snake could become federally protectedThe State
Eastern diamondback rattler might get federal protectional.com (blog)
Atlanta Journal Constitution -Jackson County Floridan
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Philadelphia Joins Urgent Call for National Action on Climate Change
Center for Biological Diversity (press release)
Philadelphia's city council, in passing a resolution Thursday, is the 24th city to join the Center for Biological Diversity's national Clean Air Cities campaign. “The facts speak for themselves—climate change is real and can no longer be swept under ...

 

PetProductNews.com

Dwarf Seahorse Trade in Peril
PetProductNews.com
The National Marine Fisheries Service is considering adding the dwarf seahorse (Hippocampus zosterae) to the threatened or endangered species lists after receiving a petition from the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity.

 

Courthouse News Service

Government considers protection for dwarf seahorse
MiamiHerald.com
The beds have declined dramatically since the 1950s, and were contaminated by the BP oil spill of 2010, said Center for Biological Diversity conservation biologist Tierra Curry. The National Marine Fisheries Service on Thursday agreed to conduct a ...
Nation's Smallest Seahorse Moves Toward Endangered Species Act ProtectionCenter for Biological Diversity (press release)
Smallest seahorse in US waters might get endangered protectionmsnbc.com

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KCET (blog)

More Wilderness for Southern California? Lawsuit Leads to Several Public Meetings
KCET (blog)
United States Department of Agriculture, and Center for Biological Diversity, et al vs. United States Department of Agriculture) in the hopes of achieving a goal: more potential wilderness area. This involves no roads or mechanized vehicles, ...

 

Government considers protection for dwarf seahorse
Bastrop Daily Enterprise
The beds have declined dramatically since the 1950s, and were contaminated by the BP oil spill of 2010, said Center for Biological Diversity conservation biologist Tierra Curry. The National Marine Fisheries Service on Thursday agreed to conduct a ...

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RedOrbit

Endangered Species Status Considered For Eastern Diamondback
RedOrbit
“Eastern diamondbacks are rapidly disappearing all across the southeastern United States, and in some states, they've more or less vanished,” Collette Adkins Giese, a reptile and amphibian specialist at the Center for Biological Diversity, told the AP.
Eastern diamondback rattlesnake, once found in St. Tammany, may be declared ...NOLA.com

all 10 news articles »
 

APNewsBreak: Protection sought for rare woodpecker dependent on burned-forest ...
Washington Post
Co-petitioners are the Center for Biological Diversity based in Tucson, Ariz., the Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project in Fossil, Ore., and the Biodiversity Conservation Alliance in Laramie, Wyo. Hanson, a wildlife ecologist at the University of ...

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Alaska News Nightly: May 15, 2012
Alaska Public Radio Network
The Associated Press The Native Village of Chickaloon, The center for Biological Diversity and two other groups are suing the National Marine Fisheries Service, claiming the federal agency's permit for oil exploration will hurt endangered beluga whales ...

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WISH

Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake Closer to Endangered Species Act Protection
Center for Biological Diversity (press release)
Today's finding responds to a 2011 petition filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, noted snake expert Dr. Bruce Means, Protect All Living Species and One More Generation. Eastern diamondbacks are the largest rattlesnakes in the world and are in ...
US ramps up endangered-species actionsWashington Post
Feds to look at whether rattlesnakes endangeredMiamiHerald.com
Small lizard may cause big headacheFort Worth Star Telegram

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Center for Biological Diversity Statement on Forest Service Withdrawal of Off ...
eNews Park Forest
At the Center for Biological Diversity, we believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature - to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. Because diversity has intrinsic value, and because its loss ...

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EPIC joins others in lawsuit challenging Willits bypass
Redwood Times
By Gary Graham Hughes The Center for Biological Diversity, Willits Environmental Center, Redwood Chapter of the Sierra Club and Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC) filed a lawsuit in federal court last week challenging the approvals and ...

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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Karl Rove to Launch a $25 Million Ad Campaign ...
truthout
According to the Center for Biological Diversity – more than $11 billion more tons of carbon pollution will be ejected into the atmosphere if Arctic drilling moves forward. Earlier this year – the President gave the oil barons what they wanted with the ...

 

Climate change may leave many mammals homeless
Science News
Moreover, adds ecologist Shaye Wolf of the Center for Biological Diversity in San Francisco, this analysis doesn't account for additional factors, such as whether a migrating species' food will exist in its newfound home or whether the animal will ...

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Lawsuit Launched to Protect Unique Greenback Cutthroat Trout Population in ...
Center for Biological Diversity (press release)
The Center for Biological Diversity filed formal notices of intent to sue the Pike National Forest and Colorado Springs Utility today over rampant motorcycle use along Bear Creek, home to a highly unique population of federally threatened greenback ...

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Lawsuit Challenges Old-growth Logging Near Grand Canyon
Kansas City infoZine
Phoenix, AZ - infoZine - The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit in federal court today challenging a 25000-acre timber sale on the Kaibab National Forest near Grand Canyon's north rim. Approved in January, this is the US Forest Service's ...

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News10.net

Lead bullets at Hunter Liggett make it top California toxic site
News10.net
It may take up to 40 years for the process to start, but eventually lead in ammunition "can leak into the soil and water," said Jeff Miller of the Center for Biological Diversity in San Francisco. Miller said much has been learned from ammunition that ...

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Government considers protection for dwarf seahorse
Daily Comet
The beds have declined dramatically since the 1950s, and were contaminated by the BP oil spill of 2010, said Center for Biological Diversity conservation biologist Tierra Curry. The National Marine Fisheries Service today agreed to conduct a year-long ...

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Tampa Joins Urgent Call for National Action on Climate Change
Center for Biological Diversity (press release)
The city council, in passing a resolution Thursday, is the latest city to join the Center for Biological Diversity's national Clean Air Cities campaign. “Climate change is a grave threat to the economy and environment of Tampa Bay, so the city council ...

 

Lawsuit Challenges Old-growth Logging Near Grand Canyon
eNews Park Forest
PHOENIX--(ENEWSPF)--May 9 - The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit in federal court today challenging a 25000-acre timber sale on the Kaibab National Forest near Grand Canyon's north rim. Approved in January, this is the US Forest ...

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NOAA

Settlement Will Help Prevent Sea Turtles From Drowning in Fishing Nets
Center for Biological Diversity (press release)
“We are delighted that the agreement lead to a proposal to help bring these special creatures a step closer to the protection they need,” said Jaclyn Lopez, staff attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The Fisheries Service has a duty to ...
Feds to propose requiring TEDS in all shrimp netsDaily Comet

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Impassioned voices speak out on King Cove road
Cordova Times
Representatives of the Sierra Club, the Center for Biological Diversity, The Wilderness Society, Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges and Defenders of Wildlife, as well as several individuals, said adamantly that the road would be detrimental to ...

 

From Sea Turtles to Panthers, Wildlife to Benefit From Launch of Florida ...
Center for Biological Diversity (press release)
The Center for Biological Diversity has opened a regional office in St. Petersburg, Fla., to expand its work to conserve wildlife in the Southeast. The Center already has a history of environmental advocacy in the Southeast; its new office will be ...

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MiamiHerald.com

Condomania for Earth Day: Endangered species-themed condoms to be given away
MiamiHerald.com
By Sandy Bauers The Center for Biological Diversity plans to hand out more than 100000 endangered-species condoms nationwide for Earth Day on Sunday. No, not for endangered species to use. For people to use. To the Arizona-based center, ...
100000 Endangered Species Condoms to Be Given Away for Earth DayCare2.com (blog)
Oceans: Feds start recovery plan for right & blue whalesSummit County Citizens Voice
Agency Seeks Input on Threatened Coral SpeciesCourthouse News Service
World Fishing
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Colorado: Wolverine recovery plan on hold for now
Summit County Citizens Voice
About the same time (in 2010) the US Fish and Wildlife Service put wolverines on the candidate endangered species list, following a 2004 petition for endangered listing from the Center for Biological Diversity. Additionally, during the stakeholder ...

 

Feds Cave on Plan to Protect Sonoran Desert National Monument From Destructive ...
Center for Biological Diversity (press release)
... sent a clear signal that the protection of habitat for gray fox, mountain lion, desert bighorn sheep and the Tucson shovel-nosed snake are not priorities,” said Cyndi Tuell, Southwest conservation advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity.

 

56 corals getting review for possible protection
KeysNet
Some of the most common corals along the Keys reef tract, including those known as boulder star and mountain star, will be included in the survey, required under a legal settlement with the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group.

 

Colorado: Lawsuit planned to protect threatened trout
Summit County Citizens Voice
The population of cutthroat trout in Bear Creek is one of a kind and deserves better protection than it's getting,” said Center for Biological Diversity endangered species director Noah Greenwald, explaining why the conservation group is getting ready ...

 

Judge Rejects Requests For Early Decision in Sharp Park Lawsuit, Stays Case ...
Patch.com
Last year, the groups, led by the Center for Biological Diversity and the Wildlife Equity Institute and including the Sierra Club, filed suit on the basis that ongoing golf course activities, such as pumping water off the course, which floods during ...

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Conservationists Say Judge's Decision "Lays Bare" Damage Done at Sharp Park
Patch.com
Editor's Note: This press release was sent to Pacifica Patch by the Center for Biological Diversity on April 26, 2012. Patch wrote a report about the judge's decision that day and yesterday ran a press release from golf advocates that furthered the ...

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Litigious group focused on biodiversity, endangered species opens Florida office
The Florida Current
The Center for Biological Diversity helped secure federal Endangered Species Act protection in 2006 for staghorn coral. photo by Amanda Meyer, US Fish and Wildlife Service An environmental group with a history of suing federal agencies over endangered ...

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Groups push for new national monument
Kingman Daily Miner
Four organizations - The Grand Canyon Wildlands Council, the Wilderness Society Western Lands, the Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity - are pushing for President Barack Obama to propose a new 1.7 million acre national monument ...

 

Willits bypass challenged in federal court
Ukiah Daily Journal
The suit was filed by the Willits Environmental Center, the Redwood chapter of the Sierra Club, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Environmental Protection Information Center. The Willits Environmental Center is only a party to one of the ...
REGIONAL: Caltrans responds to misconceptions arising from Willits Bypass lawsuitLake County News

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Marine Life Suffers Near BP's Deepwater Horizon Site
Huffington Post (blog)
The Natural Resources Defense Council and the Center for Biological Diversity want more restraints placed on seismic surveying so as not to disrupt the acoustic cues of dolphins. Meanwhile, NOAA has also documented hundreds of stranded dead sea turtles ...

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Wall Street Journal

Big Wedge Over Sharp Park's Future
Wall Street Journal
"This is a poorly maintained, money-losing public golf course that no one has the money to manage and yet local leaders don't want to make it a park," says Jeff Miller, a spokesman for the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the groups that filed ...

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Snails at center of planned lawsuit against water pipeline project
Las Vegas Review-Journal
The Center for Biological Diversity has announced it will sue the US Fish and Wildlife Service unless the agency acts on a 2009 petition to protect 35 spring snail species under the Endangered Species Act. The Tucson, Ariz.
Lawsuit Launched to Protect 35 Springsnail Species Threatened by Las Vegas ...eNews Park Forest
Appeal Challenges Nevada Water Grab Threatening Dozens of SpeciesCenter for Biological Diversity (press release)

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Cattle Battle Heads to Court
Mesquite Citizen Journal
By Barbara Ellestad The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice of intent to sue the Bureau of Land Management, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and Clark County, NV, on Monday, Apr. 30, for not taking required steps to protect the desert ...

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Wired News

Rare Earth Mining Rises Again in United States
Wired News
While those promises will be difficult to fulfill, one promising sign is Molycorp's response to pressure from the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group that initially opposed renovation. Molycorp addressed their major concern: Rather ...

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Courthouse News Service

Environmentalists Claim EPA Aproves Oil Dispersants Without Knowing Their Effects
Courthouse News Service
So far, the EPA has no idea," the Center for Biological Diversity's Deirdre McDonnell said in a statement. "Unprecedented amounts of dispersants were dumped into the sea during the Deepwater Horizon disaster, and they're likely still affecting the Gulf ...

 

Greens Challenge California Freeway Project
Courthouse News Service
The Center for Biological Diversity and others sued the Federal Highway Administration, the California Department of Transportation and the Army Corps of Engineers, alleging violations of the Clean Water Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.
Lawsuit challenges Willits bypass projectTimes-Standard

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Stop The Reptile and Amphibian Extinction Crisis
Care2.com (blog)
by Alex Ralston, Center for Biological Diversity Amphibians and reptiles are amazing creatures with clever adaptations that have allowed them to brave the millennia. Consider the Coachella Valley fringe-toed lizard's scaly hind toes, which resemble ...

 

US claims 'unprecedented' success in test for new fuel source
msnbc.com
"Rather than perpetually seeking new sources of fossil fuel, our federal research dollars should be going into carbon-free energy sources" like solar and wind, added Brendan Cummings, public lands director at the Center for Biological Diversity, ...

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AFP

US Securities and Exchange Commission Asked to Investigate Shell's Statements ...
eNews Park Forest
SAN FRANCISCO--(ENEWSPF)--May 1 - The Center for Biological Diversity today requested that the US Securities and Exchange Commission investigate Royal Dutch Shell for potentially misleading statements about its readiness to drill in the Arctic Ocean ...
SEC Should Investigate Shell's Statements of Arctic Drilling RisksKansas City infoZine

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Nanaimo Daily News

Polar bear dance party to protect Arctic Ocean makes moves in Florida
Fox News
It's being held by the Sierra Club, Alaska Wilderness League, Center for Biological Diversity, Oceana, Endangered Species Coalition, and Natural Resources Defense Council. Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet Share This Article Newsletter Signup ...
Polar bear dance party in Miami aimed at raising awareness of need to protect ...Washington Post
Conservation Groups Seek to Break World Record with Largest-Ever Polar Bear ...eNews Park Forest
Polar bear dance party to protect Arctic OceanMiamiHerald.com

all 200 news articles »
 

Latest Death of Hawaiian Monk Seal a Troubling Sign for This Rare Marine Mammal
Huffington Post
The Humane Society of the US, Conservation Council for Hawai'i and the Center for Biological Diversity have posted a $10000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for this monk seal death, ...

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The Week in Review for April 30 to May 4
The Florida Current
The Center for Biological Diversity, based in Tucson, Ariz., was founded in 1989 and has been more active in issues affecting Florida in recent years. "It is inevitable there will be conflict" with industry groups, staff attorney Jaclyn Lopez said.

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Enviros Want Probe of Shell's Drilling Claims
Courthouse News Service
By TRAVIS SANFORD (CN) - Royal Dutch Shell may be misleading investors with "inflated claims regarding its technology and readiness to drill in Alaska's Arctic," the Center for Biological Diversity told the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Environmental groups collecting millions from federal agencies they sue ...
Fox News
... according to a July 2011 analysis of the bill by the Brennan Center for Justice Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, said in statement issued in October that environmental groups collect only a small portion ...

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Tea Partiers' Love of Rattlesnakes Goes Only So Far
BusinessWeek
“Eastern diamondbacks are rapidly disappearing all across the southeastern United States and in some states, they've more or less vanished,” Collette Adkins Giese, a reptile and amphibian specialist at the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson, ...

 

Group plans to sue BLM in Bundy cattle range war
Desert Valley Times
The Center for Biological Diversity said it plans to sue the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and Clark County for “not taking required steps to protect the desert tortoise, a threatened species, from grazing in ...

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Willits bypass challenged in federal court
Willits News
The suit was filed by the Willits Environmental Center, the Redwood chapter of the Sierra Club, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Environmental Protection Information Center. The Willits Environmental Center is only a party to one of the ...

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Lawsuit Launched to Protect Rare Orchid in Path of Arizona's Proposed Rosemont ...
eNews Park Forest
(ENEWSPF)--April 25 - The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice of intent to sue the US Fish and Wildlife Service today for the agency's failure to make a listing decision on a petition to protect Coleman's coralroot, an extremely rare ...

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What's In the Name 'Environmentalist'?
Huffington Post (blog)
... that need to be made, and how grateful I am for environmental organizations such as NRDC, the Sierra Club, Audubon, the Center for Biological Diversity, and all the others who continue to take on these most difficult battles decade after decade.

 

Conservation group plans to sue county, feds over halted Gold Butte roundup
Las Vegas Review-Journal
An environmental watchdog, the Center for Biological Diversity, served a 60-day notice Monday of its intent to sue the BLM, the US Fish and Wildlife Service and Clark County for failing to implement provisions of the Endangered Species Act. The act ...

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Oil Dispersants Shouldn%C2%92t Harm Endangered Species
Care2.com (blog)
by Alex Ralston, Center for Biological Diversity After an oil spill in the ocean, chemical dispersants are often dumped in the water to break up the oil and, supposedly, reduce environmental damage. The problem is the Environmental Protection Agency, ...
Groups sue EPA, Coast Guard over dispersantsNavyTimes.com

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Lawsuit Launched to Protect 35 Springsnail Species Threatened by Las Vegas ...
Mesquite Citizen Journal
The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice of intent to sue the US Fish and Wildlife Service today for failing to make a decision on a petition to protect 35 springsnail species under the Endangered Species Act. The snails are threatened ...

 

Treehugger

Human Wave of Blue Will "Connect the Dots" Between Climate Change and Rising ...
Center for Biological Diversity (press release)
Who: Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club San Francisco Bay Chapter, Wild Equity Institute, Pacific Institute, 350 San Francisco Bay Area, Sustainable San Rafael, Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of California and others.
Connecting the dots between climate change and extreme weatherWunderground.com (blog)

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Courthouse News Service

Endangered Species protection for bald eagles is denied again
Tucson Citizen
Robin Silver, who works on bald-eagle issues for the Center for Biological Diversity, described the agency's finding as a rehash of past decisions. He said the center and other advocates would challenge the decision in court and try to force the ...
Obama Administration Again Proposes Polar Bear Extinction PlanLiving Green Magazine
Polar Bears Get No Help on Global WarmingCourthouse News Service

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BLM decision makes 10670 acres ineligible for development
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Conservation groups rejoiced at the decision, as it may be a stepping stone to a national park, said Rob Mrowka , ecologist with the Center for Biological Diversity . The land was protected by the BLM as a wilderness land study area until politicians ...

 

A battle in Bonny Doon: Apple executive's mansion has community at odds
Kansas City Star
The Center for Biological Diversity and the Ventana Chapter of the Sierra Club, the latter of which speculated that endangered red-legged frogs could be found on the property (though none actually have been), are also following the project.

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Dixie Press Online

Wrangling intensifies over Grand Canyon Watershed
Dixie Press Online
The Wilderness Society and Grand Canyon Wildlands Council, both headquartered in Flagstaff, Ariz., and the Center for Biological Diversity, based in Tucson, Ariz., in an effort to preserve the watershed, recently submitted a Proposal for National ...

 

Judge Awards Tribe, Conservation Groups Right to Defend Grand Canyon in Court Case
Center for Biological Diversity (press release)
Earthjustice and the Western Mining Action Project, both public-interest law firms, will represent the Havasupai tribe, Grand Canyon Trust, Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club and National Parks Conservation Association to defeat a lawsuit ...

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$40000 reward for info on suspicious monk seal deaths
KPUA
The HSUS, Conservation Council for Hawaii and the Center for Biological Diversity have again posted a $10000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for the monk seal deaths.

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State OKs forest-to-vineyard plan in Sonoma County
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
The other two are the Redwood Chapter of the Sierra Club and the Arizona-based Center for Biological Diversity. A coalition of tribes, including the Kashia Pomo of nearby Stewarts Point Rancheria, is exploring its legal options, sources said.

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Animal Rights, Sex Trafficking, LGBT Issues: 10 Petitions To Sign Right Now To ...
Huffington Post
Outraged by the cruelty, and determined to protect wolves from harm, the Center for Biological Diversity, started a campaign to keep wolves save from hunters. To learn more about the petition and to sign it, click here. A community stepped in when ...

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Lawsuit says wind energy industry hurts condors
San Jose Mercury News
The Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club said in the filing that a neighboring wind farm, Pine Tree, has killed at least eight golden eagles and that California condors could be at risk from the blades of turbines ...
Condors may stand in way of growing wind power industryVentura County Star

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Courthouse News Service

Goshawks at Stake in Canyon Logging Project
Courthouse News Service
... on northern Arizona's Kaibab Plateau, near the Grand Canyon's forested North Rim, will harm the raptors' preferred old-growth forest habitat in a region sorely lacking in large and aged trees, according to the Center for Biological Diversity.

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Sea Turtles Saved from Drowning in Fishing Nets
Kansas City infoZine
“We are delighted that the agreement lead to a proposal to help bring these special creatures a step closer to the protection they need,” said Jaclyn Lopez, staff attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The Fisheries Service has a duty to ...

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E! Online

This Earth Day Grab an Endangered Species Condom
Kansas City infoZine
Tucson, AZ - infoZine - The Center for Biological Diversity is marking Earth Day this Sunday by giving away 100000 free Endangered Species Condoms around the country. The condoms arrived this week in the mailboxes of 1200 volunteer distributors who ...
Environmentalists Use Sex to Promote Earth DaySF Weekly (blog)

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US Sportsmen's Alliance top 5 fishing foes
Lone Star Outdoor News
Center for Biological Diversity: This Tucson-based, lawsuit-centered group has twice petitioned the US Environmental Protection Agency to ban the use of lead-based fishing tackle products. After a rejection in 2010, CBD filed a second petition in ...

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Monk seal deaths prompt call for help from Hawaii agency
Examiner.com
The Humane Society of the US, the Conservation Council for Hawaii and the Center for Biological Diversity have posted a $10000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for the monk seal deaths.

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Wind Energy Development in the IWV
Ridgecrest Daily Independent (blog)
For anyone wanting to know about what our future bodes on this subject, please take note of the following opportunity: Ileene Anderson, botanist with the Center for Biological Diversity, will be at the Kerncrest Audubon meeting on May 17 to make a ...

 

Environmental group to celebrate Earth Day by giving away 100000 condoms (PICS)
Examiner.com
Working in conjunction with more than 1200 volunteer distributors, the Center for Biological Diversity will distribute more than 100000 condoms at various Earth Day events and college campuses. “What better day than Earth Day to get people talking ...

 

Rare Woodpecker Seeks Endangered Status
Paw Nation
Co-petitioners are the Center for Biological Diversity based in Tucson, Ariz., the Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project in Fossil, Ore., and the Biodiversity Conservation Alliance in Laramie, Wyo. Hanson, a wildlife ecologist at the University of ...

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KGO-TV

EPA sued over dispersants used in BP oil spill
KGO-TV
Center for Biological Diversity, the Surfrider Foundation, and Pacific Environment are suing the Environmental Protection Agency and the US Coast Guard. The three environmental groups complain the government doesn't know enough about the effects of ...

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Environmental group threatens to sue over Humboldt marten
Willits News
The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice of intent to sue the US Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday, alleging that the agency has failed to make a listing decision on a petition to protect the rare Humboldt marten.

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Environment News Service

Earth Day 2012 Marked by Calls for Political Action
Environment News Service
The Center for Biological Diversity is marking Earth Day by giving away 100000 free Endangered Species Condoms around the country. The condoms arrived this week in the mailboxes of 1200 volunteer distributors who will hand them out at hundreds of Earth ...

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Royal Society Study: Population, Consumption Are 'Profound' Challenges to ...
Center for Biological Diversity (press release)
“The recommendations included in this study should be heeded by environmental activists around the world,” said Amy Harwood, coordinator for the Center for Biological Diversity's human population campaign. “Unsustainable growth of the world's human ...

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Bat-killing Epidemic Spreads to Civil War Park at Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
eNews Park Forest
... in Washington,” said Mollie Matteson, a bat specialist with the Center for Biological Diversity, which petitioned the White House on April 11 to direct swifter and better-coordinated national action to address the unbridled spread of the disease.

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Oil industry, Texas, NM focus on lizard habitat
Austin American-Statesman
based Center for Biological Diversity, slammed the conservation agreements, saying the oil and gas industry would use them as a "get out of jail free card." "There is nothing in the Texas conservation plan that will benefit the dunes sagebrush lizard," ...

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Lawsuit filed to block Willits bypass
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
“We will be seeking an injunction” to stop the project from moving forward, said Jeff Miller of the Center for Biological Diversity, an Arizona-based organization with its nearest office in San Francisco. Caltrans officials said they had not had a ...

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Industries, Regulators Push EPA to Expand Flexibility in Greenhouse Gas Permits
Bloomberg BNA
The Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Center for Biological Diversity, and the Clean Air Task Force said in their comments that EPA's proposal to streamline the permitting requirements was ...

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Bloomberg

Work under way on NV's 1st wind energy farm
San Jose Mercury News
The Western Watersheds Project and the Center for Biological Diversity sued last year in an effort to block the $225 million project, claiming the US Bureau of Land Management skirted environmental regulations to fast-track it.
Faux green wind power project well on its way below Great Basin National ParkThe Wildlife News

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Broward-Palm Beach New Times

Study: 56 coral species likely extinct by 2100
Virgin Islands Daily News
The status review, published Friday along with a draft management report, came as the result of a 2009 petition by the Center for Biological Diversity. In October 2009, the nonprofit environmental group petitioned the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
Dying coral's economic ripple in FloridaPalm Beach Post
Seven Florida Coral Species "Extremely Likely to Go Extinct," Warns National ...Broward-Palm Beach New Times (blog)

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Bay Area Indymedia

DFG report documents record water exports and splittail 'salvage' in 2011
Bay Area Indymedia
The Center for Biological Diversity sued, and the Fish and Wildlife Service agreed to revisit the tainted Bush-era decision. The critically endangered splittail was again denied Endangered Species Protection by the Obama administration in October 2010, ...

 

Wild chervil hot on county weed board's agenda 6 pm Thursday in Chimacum
Port Townsend Leader
... calls a limited application of low-toxicity herbicides typically used in endangered species habitat restoration projects and considered acceptable by the Washington Toxics Coalition, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Nature Conservancy.

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Courthouse News Service

New Wyoming Wolf Plan Will Allow Killing of Hundreds of Wolves
eNews Park Forest
“Wyoming's wolf-management plan is a recipe for wolf slaughter that will only serve to incite more of the prejudice against wolves that led to their destruction in the first place,” said Michael Robinson of the Center for Biological Diversity, ...
Wyoming plans to kill most wolves outside YellowstoneSummit County Citizens Voice

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Gulf Oil Spill – Conservationists Sue for Dispersant Harm
MarineLink
So far, the EPA has no idea,” said Deirdre McDonnell of the Center for Biological Diversity, which brought suit with Surfrider and Pacific Environment. “Unprecedented amounts of dispersants were dumped into the sea during the Deepwater Horizon disaster ...
Groups sue EPA, Coast Guard over dispersants useSan Jose Mercury News

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Bat-killing Epidemic Strikes and Stretches Through Nation's Capital
Kansas City infoZine
... a wake-up call to the White House, members of Congress and agency leaders to do more to address what's shaping up to be the worst wildlife catastrophe of the century,” said Mollie Matteson, a bat specialist with the Center for Biological Diversity.

 
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