Funding to 20 states will help collaborative efforts to conserve America’s most imperiled species WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—September 9, 2014. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced nearly $35 million in grants to 20 states to enable collaborative efforts to conserve many of[Read More…]

The Good News: Conservation Efforts Work When Applied The Bad News: Populations Are Down in Many Key Habitats Washington,k DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 9, 2014.  One hundred years after the extinction of the passenger pigeon, the nation’s top bird science and conservation groups have come together to publish The State of the Birds[Read More…]

Plan Calls for Restoring Frog Across Its Range, Including St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana and Mississippi GULFPORT, Miss.–(ENEWSPF)–September 9, 2014.  According to a settlement agreement with the Center for Biological Diversity and Gulf Restoration Network, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today released a draft recovery plan for endangered dusky gopher[Read More…]

State Department and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Stonewalling Public Efforts to Identify Full Impacts of Disastrous Pipeline WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—September 9, 2014. The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the State Department to obtain public records that reveal how the proposed[Read More…]

300+ Campuses Back-To-School Organizing Efforts to Send Students to Massive Climate March in NYC New York, NY –(ENEWSPF)—September 9, 2014. In response to the United Nations’ Emergency Climate Summit, an unprecedented surge of tens of thousands of students from more than 300 campuses will join the People’s Climate March, which[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 9, 2014.  Multinational pesticide manufacturer Syngenta has petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to raise the allowable levels of a systemic pesticide on a number of crops. In certain cases, such as hay from wheat, the company is asking for a 400x increase in the tolerance level set[Read More…]

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.–(ENEWSPF)–September 8, 2014.  Pursuant to a 2011 agreement with the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Endangered Species Act protection today for three rare plants in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The decision follows lawsuits brought by the Center and will[Read More…]

BOISE, Idaho–(ENEWSPF)–September 8, 2014.  Four conservation organizations today filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services program over its large-scale, often secretive killing of wild animals in Idaho. The program kills millions of animals nationwide every year, and in 2013 killed more than 3,000[Read More…]

Baltimore City hearing is second of three challenges to Maryland’s Department of the Environment permitting of stormwater runoff—the primary source of contaminants polluting Baltimore waterways Chesapeake Bay at sunset. Lone Wolf Photos / Shutterstock. Baltimore, MD—(ENEWSPF)—September 8, 2014. This morning, a coalition of environmental and local watershed advocates legally challenged[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 8, 2014.  NOAA released a final rule and environmental impact statement expanding the boundaries of Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in Lake Huron from 448 square miles to 4,300 square miles. The new boundaries now include the waters of Lake Huron adjacent to Michigan’s Alcona, Alpena and Presque[Read More…]