PESTICIDES REDUCTION The country has learned a lot since Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring alerted us to the hazards of poisonous chemicals. But pesticide use still poses major threats to ...

Roads and development fragment habitat and constrain wildlife movement. Without incorporating habitat connectivity in our planning by preserving or creating linkages, we endanger the lives of both ...

Dating back to before the dinosaurs, horseshoe crabs are among the Earth’s most ancient animals. They’ve survived for almost half a billion years, but now, in North America, they’re at great risk: ...

SEATTLE— The Center for Biological Diversity and Wild Fish Conservancy sued the Trump administration today for mismanaging West Coast salmon fisheries and harming critically endangered Southern ...

Lawsuit Launched to Protect Sonoma County Residents From Airport Lead Pollution SANTA ROSA, Calif. — Environmental groups filed a formal notice today of their intent to sue the U.S. Environmental ...

ANCHORAGE— The Trump administration today moved to open protected wildlife habitat in the northern Alaska wilderness to expanded oil and gas leasing. The Bureau of Land Management announced plans to ...

WASHINGTON— According to population estimates recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 328 million people rang in the new year in the United States. This is an increase of more than 2 ...

For Immediate Release, January 9, 2019 Contact: Brett Hartl, (202) 817-8121, [email protected] Trump Aims to Make Former Coal Lobbyist Wheeler Permanent EPA Chief WASHINGTON— President ...

ANCHORAGE— The Trump administration today approved the first Arctic offshore oil drilling development in federal waters. Hilcorp Alaska received approval to build the controversial Liberty project, an ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif.— Conservation groups filed a lawsuit challenging the city of Desert Hot Springs’ approval of the Mission Creek Trails development, which would build nearly 2,000 houses adjacent to ...

Lawsuit Launched to Protect Dwindling Mountain Caribou Recently Extinct in Lower 48 States, Caribou Badly Need Protection to Return SANDPOINT, Idaho — Conservation groups issued a formal notice today ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The Trump administration has approved a maximum level of the medically important antibiotic oxytetracycline allowed in citrus fruits. The Environmental Protection Agency decision ...