Tag: endangered species
380,000+ Oppose Trump Administration Effort to Roll Back Endangered Species Act Protections
Proposed rules would undermine nation’s most successful conservation law Washington D.C. — More than 380,000 Americans, including 17,000 Sierra Club supporters, submitted comments in opposition to a set of proposed rules from the Trump administration that would roll back protections for imperiled animal and plant species across the United States and undermine … [continued]
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Sierra Club Notice of Intent to Sue Flags Agency Failures to Protect Arctic Polar Bears from Oil & Gas Activities
Flawed Fish and Wildlife Service Opinion Underestimates Effects on Threatened Species WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Sierra Club, represented by its Environmental Law Program, and allied organizations represented by Trustees for Alaska filed a notice flagging ESA violations by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife … [continued]
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Advisory: D.C. Rally to Call Out Trump’s Plan to Dismantle Endangered Species Act
Event at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, December 18, outside Interior Department WASHINGTON, D.C. — Conservation groups including Sierra Club and Center for Biological Diversity will deliver hundreds of thousands of comments on Thursday, December 18, to the Department of the Interior from people protesting Trump’s plan to dismantle the Endangered Species … [continued]
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Endangered spectaclecase mussels reintroduced into the Chippewa River
By Ada Tussing
To combat the population loss of spectaclecase mussels, researchers with both the Minnesota and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources released over 177 mussels into the Chippewa River in Northwest Wisconsin.
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Lake sturgeon released in Cuyahoga River as Ohio expands recovery effort
Ohio state wildlife officials say thousands of juvenile lake sturgeon were released in four Ohio rivers this year, including the Cuyahoga, as part of an effort to rebuild the endangered […]