Court Orders Cell Tower Safeguards for Birds Along Gulf Coast
WASHINGTON, DC, February 19, 2008 (ENS) – A federal appeals court today ordered the Federal Communications Commission to establish safeguards to protect the millions of birds killed each year in collisions with telephone, radio, cellular and other communications towers in the Gulf Coast region. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that at least five [...]
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GreenScientists Ignored on Pitfalls of Arctic Oil Leasing
WASHINGTON, DC, February 5, 2008 (ENS) – The Interior Department is hastening to stop the flow of internal e-mails from its own scientists that undermine the legality of its offshore oil and gas lease sales in federal Arctic waters, according to correspondence released Monday by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, PEER. During the past three [...]
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GreenRocky Mountain Wolf Killing Rule Goes to Court
MISSOULA, Montana, January 28, 2008 (ENS) – In a bid to bar states from aerial gunning and other state-sponsored killing of wolves, seven conservation groups today filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Missoula to stop the implementation of a new Bush administration rule that lowers the bar for wolf killing when a state [...]
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GreenRocky Mountain Gray Wolves in the Crosshairs
WASHINGTON, DC, January 24, 2008 (ENS) – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced new regulations that will allow states to kill gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains, despite the fact that wolves are currently protected under the Endangered Species Act. The Service says the revision allows states and tribes with approved wolf management [...]
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GreenConservationists: Jaguar Recovery Abandoned in Favor of Border Wall
SILVER CITY, New Mexico, January 23, 2008 (ENS) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday that it will not prepare a recovery plan for the endangered jaguar and will not attempt to recover the species in the United States or throughout its range in North and South America. The decision was signed by [...]
Read More »Lawsuits Force Listing of Six Rare Birds as Endangered
WASHINGTON, DC, January 17, 2008 (ENS) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has listed six rare birds from around the world as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Fourteen years after first determining these species warranted protection, the Service responded to a series of lawsuits by the Center for Biological Diversity and listed [...]
Read More »U.S. Lawmakers Hot Over Polar Bear Decisions
WASHINGTON, DC, January 17, 2008 (ENS) – Key polar bear habitat should be held off limits to oil and gas drilling until federal wildlife officials have determined whether the species should be listed for protection under the Endangered Species Act, the chair of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming said today. [...]
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GreenConservation Groups Sue to Block Electric Transmission Corridors
WASHINGTON, DC, January 10, 2008 (ENS) – Eleven regional and national environmental organizations today announced plans to file suit against the Department of Energy over its final designation of a mid-Atlantic National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor. On October 5, the Energy Department published its order designating two National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors – the Mid-Atlantic [...]
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GreenBush Administration Abandons Effort to Undercut National Forest Protections
SAN FRANCISCO, California, January 9, 2008 (ENS) – Conservation groups are declaring a “victory for public participation” as the U.S. Forest Service and the timber industry Monday abandoned their appeals of a federal court decision that invalidated a Bush administration rule removing environmental protections for the 192 million acre National Forest System. Endangered California spotted [...]
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GreenGroups Seeking Polar Bear Listing to Sue Bush Administration
WASHINGTON, DC, January 7, 2008 (ENS) – Three environmental groups today said they will sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to make a decision about whether or not to place the polar bear on the federal Endangered Species List by this coming Wednesday. To survive, polar bears must contend with shrinking sea [...]
Read More »Polar Bear Habitats
Global Warming is causing a 9 degree Fahrenheit average temperature change in arctic areas. This temperature change is wreaking havoc on the polar bear hunting grounds (sea ice) and disrupting their natural feeding habits. Polar bears hunt seals and other fish for sustenance, and they cannot do this without ample supply of sea ice. Depleting [...]
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