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Author:  Damien M. Schiff Last Friday, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) filed two Endangered Species Act (ESA) lawsuits concerning two Sacramento Delta species.  One lawsuit challenges the failure of the United States Fish and Wildife Service to respond to a CBD petition to uplist the currently "threatened& ...

Author:  Damien M. Schiff The Treehugger Blog reports that many in the environmental community are disappointed by the new Administration's environmental track record.  The Obama Administration has listed only two out of 250 candidate species for Endangered Species Act protection since taking over the reins from th ...

Author:  Damien M. Schiff The United States Fish and Wildlife Service has announced that it will revisit its 2003 decision to remove the Sacramento splittail from Endangered Species Act protections.  The decision is the result of a lawsuit from the Center for Biological Diversity contending that the delisting was improperly influenced b ...

Author:  Damien M. Schiff Yesterday, Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) and two other environmental groups announced their intention to sue the United States Fish & Wildlife Service's decision that listing the sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) is "warranted but precluded" by higher-priority actions.& ...

Author:  Damien M. Schiff Environmentalist groups frequently fault human beings for any perceived ecological crisis. Human overpopulation is the usual culprit advanced to explain the extinction of many of the earth’s species. For that reason, some 200 scientists and activists groups, including such limelight-winning litigation groups as ...

Author:  Damien M. Schiff This week, the Center for Biological Diversity submitted a petition to the Department of the Interior to have the United States Fish & Wildlife Service develop a nationwide wolf recovery program that could lead to the introduction of "wolf populations in suitable habitat in the Pacific Northwest, ...

Author: Damien M. Schiff El Paso Corporation is one of America's largest natural gas companies.  The company has been trying for some time to gain governmental approval of a natural gas pipeline that would run from Wyoming to Oregon.  Approval of the project, known as the Ruby Pipeline, was recently challenged by lawsuits from two ...

Author:  Damien M. Schiff Earlier this month, the Center for Biological Diversity submitted a petition to the Environmental Protection Agency requesting that the latter ban lead-based ammunition and fishing tackle.  CBD submitted the petition pursuant to the Toxic Substances Control Act.  The petition concedes that EPA is forbidde ...

Author: Damien M. Schiff Earth Island Journal has an interview with Kieran Suckling, head of the environmentalist group Center for Biological Diversity. (Suckling is a former member of Earth First!; the organization's website describes the group as an antidote to "namby-pamby environmental groups" and describes its membership as rangi ...