Description: Lawsuit to compel decisions regarding listing species or designating critical habitat for 13 species of plants and animals, including climate change-threatened species.
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Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Case Documents:
Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary 03/07/2023 Complaint Download Complaint filed. Lawsuit in Arizona Federal Court Sought Fish and Wildlife Service Decisions on Climate Change-Threatened Species. Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit in the federal district court for the District of Arizona to compel the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to make decisions under the Endangered Species Act regarding listing or critical habitat designation for 13 species of plants and animals, including species threatened by climate change: the round hickorynut (a mussel threatened by increasing stream temperatures and climate change-induced storm events); the Barrens topminnow (a fish found in streams in middle Tennessee that has experienced habitat loss due to climate change); the Suwannee alligator snapping turtle; the least chub; and the tui chub.