In An Important Step, U.S. Designates Polar Bear Critical Habitat
If approved, the proposal would be the largest designation of critical habitat in the history of the Endangered Species Act.
If approved, the proposal would be the largest designation of critical habitat in the history of the Endangered Species Act.
Andrew Wetzler | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green
Yesterday, a judge gave the Obama Administration a chance to start over in protecting wolves. I hope the president seizes it.
Carl Pope | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green
For eight years under George Bush, America's wilderness faced a systematic assault from the federal government.
Cynthia Koehler | Posted 07.04.2009 | Green
Sooner or later California is going to change how it uses water. We can do it before we lose our fish, or after.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green
In Today's Audio Report: Obama abandons polar bears, but exposes hidden Bush EPA study detailing cancer risks from coal ash; The highest ski run in the world, melted; Plus: The awesome new Clean Coal ringtones you've been waiting for!
Paula Gordon | Posted 06.11.2009 | Green
The Obama Administration's abandonment of two vital keystone species to a handful of irresponsible killers makes it hard to choose between appalling and outrageous.
Brooke-Sidney Gavins | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green
The Delta, which provides water to nearly two-thirds of all Californians and is suffering from a three year drought, may not have a federal bailout after all.
AP | PETE YOST | Posted 04.11.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — The inspector general for the Commerce Department is trying to force a prominent environmental group to reveal who leaked the Bush ...
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 04.03.2009 | Home
This legislation promises good science now, and for the next 4-8 years; and hopefully restored guarantees of good science later, even under less humane executives than Obama.
AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama urged agency heads Tuesday to ignore a Bush administration regulation limiting scientific reviews of project...
Michael Markarian | Posted 03.28.2009 | Green
The federal government took two major steps today to protect wild animals from cruelty and abuse. The government clearly has a key role to play when it comes to animal conservation.
Andrew Wetzler | Posted 03.27.2009 | Green
It is simply incoherent to say that the Endangered Species Act's definition of "species" is "beyond Congress' intent." How do we know? Because Congress wrote the definition.
AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 03.08.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — The treatment of circus elephants went on trial in federal court Wednesday with animal rights groups accusing Ringling Bros. of vio...
Michael Markarian | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics
Should gray wolves be stripped from the Endangered Species list, they would be subjected to widespread killings at the hands of hostile state wildlife agencies.
Bill Chameides | Posted 02.21.2009 | Green
Will Obama be able to advance an environmental agenda? If so, he will have distinguished himself from Democratic administrations that promised a lot but delivered little on the environment.
Andrew Wetzler | Posted 02.14.2009 | Green
With a viable population of this American icon so close to being a reality, we simply cannot allow the Bush Administration to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory as they slink out the door.
AP | SAMANTHA YOUNG | Posted 01.31.2009 | Green
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is suing the Bush administration to block last-minute endangered species regulations that are intended to reduce...
Randall Amster | Posted 01.29.2009 | Green
The third piece of the Bush train-wreck triumvirate in these waning days: increasing pollution... by rolling back Environmental Protection Agency regulations on emissions.
Andrew Wetzler | Posted 01.29.2009 | Green
When the Bush administration decided that it was not going to use the Endangered Species Act to address global warming someone in the bowels of the administration came up with a clever idea.
Michael DeJong | Posted 01.28.2009 | Green
Little measures -- recycling, driving a most fuel-efficient car, walking, biking or using public transit, and installing low-flow shower heads -- can make a huge difference.
ProPublica | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics
With just 39 days left in office, the Bush administration has just issued a final rule change on the Endangered Species Act despite the concerns of environmentalists and congressional Democrats.
Michael Markarian | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics
Obama faces a choice between a new direction that would place environmental conservation above corporate interests, and a pick similar to past selections at the Department of the Interior.
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics
As if eight long years of hell under Bush were not enough, we now have to suffer this accelerated push to destroy our future in the last days of his reign of terror.
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics
Plants and animals currently protected by law from the impacts of dams, highways and other large-scale projects will no longer be if Bush has his way on his way out.
Cindy Letchworth | Posted 12.14.2008 | Green
With gray wolf populations estimated to be below 2-3000, scientists believe it will be nearly impossible for the wolves to sustain long-term health should federal protections be lifted.
Andrew Wetzler | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green