WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, a broad coalition formally submitted more than 500,000 public comments bringing the total to more than 800,000 comments opposing proposed changes to the regulations implementing the Endangered Species Act. The Endangered Species Act is our nation’s most effective tool in saving wildlife facing extinction.
A Wyoming federal court issued a ruling invalidating long-term approval for a state-run elk feedground on the Bridger-Teton National Forest in the Gros Ventre River valley, east of Jackson Hole. With the deadly and highly contagious chronic wasting disease (CWD) already within the Yellowstone ecosystem, conservation groups had challenged approval of the Alkali Creek Elk Feedground, which concentrates herds of elk in unhealthy conditions for the winter months.
Piikani Nation * Global Indigenous Council * Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders Council * Sierra Club
PASADENA, Calif.— A federal appeals court will hear an appeal Tuesday brought by the Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity and the state of California challenging a federal court decision allowing Trump’s border wall replacement project near San Diego to proceed. A rally against the wall will precede the hearing.
Last night, the Trump Administration approved a $2.5 billion energy project near Joshua Tree National Park. The Eagle Crest Energy Company’s 1,300 megawatt hydropower project would drain billions of gallons of water from the desert aquifer and harm local desert species.
Washington, DC-- Today, under the leadership of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service along with NOAA Fisheries proposed three rule changes that would effectively dismantle the Endangered Species Act. E&E released a leak of the proposed modifications to the rule that will make it increasingly difficult to hold wildlife agencies accountable, lessen opportunity for public input and weaken protection of threatened species.
Washington, DC-- Today, the House Western Caucus introduced nine bills, all of which would effectively dismantle the Endangered Species Act. Taken together, the bills impede citizen involvement in species protections, significantly limit opportunities for listing and undermine the sound science needed for effective wildlife management. This better known House “extinction package” doubles down on Sen. Barrasso’s bill introduced last week that would also weaken the ESA.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- House Republicans just passed their version of the 2018 farm bill-- a package that weakens the SNAP anti-hunger program and includes provisions undermining bedrock environmental safeguards for clean water, wildlife and forests.
In response, Athan Manuel, director of public lands protection for Sierra Club issued the following statement:
Mission, TX-- Today, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed an appropriations bill that includes $1.6 billion for border walls and increased funding for Border Patrol. If passed through Congress, the appropriations legislation fully funds 65 miles of additional border wall in Rio Grande Valley-- walling off the entire 150-mile valley from their river (except the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge where prohibition on construction is upheld).
Anchorage, AK-- Yesterday, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced that the agency will carry out a Congressional rollback of a rule that bans aggressive predator control tactics in national preserves in Alaska, including shooting bear cubs and wolf pups in their dens. The decision will affect over 20 million acres of federal lands and allow dangerous baiting of precious species like the Alaskan blackbear.