Topic: Center For Biological Diversity

EPA sued over pesticides, endangered species

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Environmental conservation groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday to force it to tighten regulation of pesticide use, arguing that the agency was not consulting wildlife officials.The Center for Biological Diversity has successfully sued the EPA ...
On August 23, 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was petitioned by the Center for Biological Diversity and four other organizations to ban all lead in fishing tackle under the Toxic Substances Control Act. This includes sinkers, jigs, weighted fly line, and ...
Judge throws out lawsuit to stop huge resort project on sprawling California ranchA California judge has thrown out a lawsuit that aimed to stop development of a 5,000-acre gated resort community on the sprawling Tejon Ranch property.Superior Court Judge Kenneth Twisselman ruled ...

Polar Bears-The New Canary

Transcending Speciesism Since October 2008 ) for permission to republish this article.. Now we use polar bears in the Arctic. However, the Bushies propounded a rule-later embraced by the Obama Administration-excluding carbon emissions from regulation under the ESA. Nonetheless, in the heady ...
Environmental group files lawsuit hoping to block Wyoming-to-Oregon pipelineAn environmental group that wants to block construction of a $3 billion gas pipeline from Wyoming to Oregon filed a lawsuit Friday, saying the pipeline will cut across pristine land and harm endangered fish.The ...
Through a network of 5,000 volunteers operating in all 50 states - as well as Canada, Puerto Rico, and Mexico - the Center for Biological Diversity distributed 250,000 free Endangered Species Condoms at Earth Day events as part of its campaign to ...

U.S. lawsuit targets pesticide impact on polar bears

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The U.S. government violated the Endangered Species Act by failing to curb use of pesticides that have been accumulating in the Arctic food chain and in the fat of polar bears, a species listed as threatened, environmentalists charged ...
Enviro group takes formal step to sue EPA over pesticide pollution affecting polar bearsAn environmental group has given formal notice that it will sue the federal government to protect polar bears from pesticide pollution.The Center for Biological Diversity on Wednesday gave 60-day ...

Obama Looks to Protect Reefs From Souring Seas

The Environmental Protection Agency has asked scientists to send in information about how ocean acidification may be affecting ecosystems and new techniques for measuring the phenomenon. The Center for Biological Diversity threatened to sue EPA last year before the agency relented, agreeing ...
The state's 4th District Appeals Court today affirmed a lower court decision that the County of San Bernardino violated state law in approving a controversial Lake Arrowhead subdivision in November 2005. "After three huge fires in the mountains in four years, hopefully ...
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