Showing posts with label Center for Biological Diversity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Center for Biological Diversity. Show all posts
March 2, 2017

Federal officials OK desert tortoise transfer

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Marines wait for a desert tortoise - endangered and protected from harm or harassment by federal law - to move off the road during an oper...
March 8, 2016

Tortoise relocations challenged

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Desert tortoises, such as this adult photographed near the Ivanpah Valley, are listed as threatened with extinction. The Marine Corps plans ...
October 10, 2014

Federal Court: One Million Acres Near Grand Canyon Protected From Mining

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The Grand Canyon (Shutterstock) by Ari Phillips Climate Progress I n early October, an Arizona federal judge upheld the Obama Adminis...
August 21, 2014

Superior Court Releases Final Decisions in Cadiz Project Environmental Litigation

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Rulings Confirm Sweeping Victory for Project T oday, Orange County Superior Court Judge Gail Andler issued final Statements of Decision (...
June 28, 2014

The race to stop Las Vegas from running dry

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Amid a brutal drought the reservoir that supplies 90 per cent of Las Vegas’s water is fast disappearing and desperate attempts to save Sin C...
June 27, 2014

Group Will Sue to Block 'Evisceration' of Endangered Species Act

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A new policy would make it nearly impossible to add new species to the Endangered list until it might be too late for them. (Photo: Jane W...
April 21, 2014

Environmentalists pushed Bundy ranch standoff over endangered [sic] tortoises

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A helicopter takes off from a staging area of BLM vehicles and other government vehicles off of Riverside Road near Bunkerville, Nevada ov...
October 26, 2013

Western Ranchers Defend Big Victory in Grazing Battle

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Fairfield Sun Times DENVER -- Two ranching organizations, an Arizona ranch, and an Arizona rancher at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the N...
July 26, 2012

Big Green lawsuits cause megafires, destroy endangered species

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OPINION Ron Arnold, Contributor The Washington Examiner P rofessional foresters have known for years that environmentalists are the fore...
April 8, 2012

Grand Canyon Watershed National Monument Proposed by Conservation Groups

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by Morgan Skinner KCSG News St. George, UT - A proposed Grand Canyon Watershed National Monument submitted to the US Bureau of Land Manag...
October 27, 2011

Huge solar power plants are blooming in California's southern deserts

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By Dana Hull San Jose Mercury News MOJAVE DESERT -- At first glance, California's vast Mojave Desert seems barren: mile after mile of...
September 13, 2011

BLM rapped for silencing citizens

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by David Danelski Press-Enterprise The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has decided to allow members of the public to speak during meeting...
June 30, 2011

Solar Developers Face New Desert Tortoise Species

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Attention solar developers: You now have not one but two desert tortoises to worry about Todd Woody Forbes Scientists on Tuesday publish...
November 7, 2010

Acres may be fenced off for protection of endangered plant

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By KAREN JONAS, staff writer Barstow Desert Dispatch NEAR FORT IRWIN • About 14,000 acres of land near Fort Irwin could be fenced off and...
December 11, 2009

Hunters now in environmentalists' sights

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Jim Matthews http://www.outdoornewsservice.com/ San Bernardino Sun Telling the Department of Fish and Game and the Fish and Game Commiss...
November 20, 2009

Groups file lawsuit to stop mining near Grand Canyon

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Suzanne Adams Kingman Daily Miner KINGMAN - New mining jobs in the Arizona Strip area may be put on hold. The Center for Biological Di...
November 19, 2009

Lawsuit Abuse Charge by Western Lawmakers Enrages Enviro Groups

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By PHIL TAYLOR of Greenwire New York Times "Don't be messin' with my rice bowl." Poor government oversight ...