Center for Biological Diversity: WASHINGTON— A coalition of 185 community, labor, climate and environmental justice organizations today urged congressional leaders to oppose anti-environmental permitting legislation.
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today for failing to provide public records regarding its evisceration of the Endangered Species Act.
VENTURA, Calif.— The Ventura County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will consider the expansion of the Pacific Rock Mine, an operation that would extract nearly 30 million tons of rock over the next 60 years. The action follows an appeal from the Center for Biological Diversity challenging the county planning commission’s approval of the mine expansion, which is located near the Conejo Grade.
Center for Biological Diversity: Research Highlights Need for Action to Stem Illegal Bird Trade
Center for Biological Diversity: World’s Most Endangered Marine Mammal at Greater Risk of Extinction
SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The California Fish and Game Commission voted today to designate the Mount Pinos sooty grouse as a candidate for protection under the California Endangered Species Act. The vote came in response to a March 2026 petition by the Center for Biological Diversity and Los Padres ForestWatch.
Conservation and public health groups filed a lawsuit today to force the Trump administration to develop required water quality standards for atrazine, a cancer-linked pesticide found at dangerous levels in thousands of U.S. waterways and in drinking-water supplies. Atrazine is the nation’s most widespread pesticide water pollutant. According to a new Center for Biological Diversity report, the pesticide contaminates 25% of all river miles in the continental United States at levels the...
A federal judge has approved a legal agreement requiring the Environmental Protection Agency to finalize plans for cleaning up unhealthy sulfur dioxide air pollution in four areas of Texas and Tennessee. The agreement, which was approved on Wednesday, includes steps to reduce harmful levels of the pollution in areas where more than 30,000 people live in the two states. Sulfur dioxide can trigger asthma attacks and cause damage to lungs and the cardiovascular system that can be fatal. I...
Center for Biological Diversity: Rare Cora Mud Turtle Threatened By Wildlife Trafficking
TRENTON, N.J.— The Center for Biological Diversity, CU Maurice River, Hackensack Riverkeeper, Delaware Riverkeeper, New Jersey Conservation Foundation, and Project Terrapin, LLC today petitioned the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to require simple bycatch-reduction devices on blue crab pots statewide to protect diamondback terrapins. The devices would prevent these imperiled turtles from becoming trapped and then drowning.