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Hundreds of Thousands of Americans Oppose Trump Administration Effort to Roll Back Protections for Imperiled Animals and Plant Species
Nearly 400,000 Americans submitted comments in opposition to a set of proposed rules from the Trump administration that would roll back protections for imperiled animal and plant species.
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Defenders of Wildlife Submits Technical Comments and Over 8,400 Public Comments in Efforts to Stop Harmful ESA Proposals
Defenders of Wildlife today submitted its technical comments opposing the Trump administration’s proposals to weaken the Endangered Species Act’s implementing regulations.
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Defenders Slams SPEED Act as it Speeds Toward Habitat Destruction
Defenders of Wildlife condemns Rep. Bruce Westerman’s (R-AR) SPEED ACT, H.R. 4776 the Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development Act, ahead of Thursday’s expected floor vote in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Montanans Support Pallid Sturgeon over Dam in New Poll
Montana voters support removing the Intake Diversion Dam on the Yellowstone River and replacing it with a pump alternative, according to a recent poll conducted by Tulchin Research.
Lawsuit Launched to Protect Rare Borderlands Moth in Arizona
Contact: Rebecca Bullis, Defenders of Wildlife, rbullis@defenders.org , 202-772-0295 Brian Segee, Center for Biological Diversity, bsegee@biologicaldiversity.org , 805-750-8852 WASHINGTON (May 4, 2018) – Defenders of
Trump Administration’s Greater-sage Grouse Plans Disaster for Species, West
Bureau of Land Management state offices posted draft revisions to the National Greater Sage-Grouse Planning Strategy today, proposing scads of new provisions that would undermine
U.S. Forest Service Moves Backwards on Old-Growth Logging
Today the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) released a draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Prince of Wales Landscape Level Analysis project , proposing massive
Fish and Wildlife Service Status Review Shows Red Wolf is in Crisis
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has released its Species Status Assessment (SSA) and five-year review for the critically endangered Red Wolf. Red wolves
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