Description: Challenge to the biological opinions issued in conjunction with the operation of the Central Valley and State Water Projects including for failure to consider long-term impacts in the context of climate change.
Status: Motions for judgment on the pleadings denied. [ 10/10/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that agencies violated the Endangered Species Act when they approved a silver and copper mine project in Montana in one of the last remaining undisturbed habitats in the region for the threatened grizzly bear and bull trout.
Description: Action to compel the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to take action in response to list the Yellowstone bison as an endangered or threatened distinct population segment of plains bison.
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s decision that listing of the Sonoran desert tortoise under the Endangered Species Act was “not warranted.”
Description: Lawsuit to compel the designation of critical habitat for 14 species of plants and animals from the island of Hawai‘i that were listed as endangered in 2013.
Description: Lawsuit asserting that the National Marine Fisheries Service violated the Endangered Species Act by failing to designate critical habitat for ringed and bearded seals.
Description: Challenge to Safe Drinking Water Act exemption that would allegedly allow injection of oil and gas wastewater and other fluids in oil field in San Luis Obispo County in California.
Status: Stipulated settlement agreement entered into by plaintiff and defendants. [ 10/11/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit to compel the Secretary of the Interior and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to take action under the Endangered Species Act with respect to 24 species.
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