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President Trump Rescinds Long Standing Executive Orders Designed to Conserve Wildlife and Federal Lands from Unmanaged Motorized Recreation
President Trump last Friday issued an Executive Order rescinding EOs 11644 and 11989 which guide the management of ATVs, dirt bikes, snowmobiles, jet skis and other off-road motorized vehicles on federal lands. President Trump also ordered federal agencies to rescind or revise regulations that implement the prior EOs.
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House Interior Bill Attacks Crucial Protections for Imperiled Wildlife and Public Lands
Defenders of Wildlife today slammed the House Appropriations Committee’s proposed Interior and Environment spending bill for Fiscal Year 2027, which includes numerous damaging policy riders intended to weaken the Endangered Species Act and undermine protections for individual species.
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Defenders Backs Colorado, Calls on Federal Government to Push Onward with Gray Wolf Reintroduction
Defenders of Wildlife sent a comment letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today in response to a public request for information, urging continued
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President Obama Announces New Climate Plan
Strategy focuses on cutting carbon emissions and community climate resilience Washington, DC (June 25, 2013)--President Obama made a major announcement at Georgetown University today unveiling
House Defeats Anti-Environmental Farm Bill
Negative impacts on water, lands and wildlife draw bipartisan criticism The following is a statement from Tim Male, vice president of conservation policy at Defenders
Baucus and Whitehouse introduce climate legislation
SAFE Act will address impacts of climate change WASHINGTON (June 20, 2013)–– Today Senator Baucus and Senator Whitehouse reintroduced the Safeguarding America’s Future and Environment
Montana’s Highest Court Clears Way For Return of Wild Bison
Bison Transfer to Fort Belknap Tribes To Proceed Helena, MT (June 19, 2013) – The Montana Supreme Court today cleared the way for the return
Feds Negligent in Protecting Rare Dunes Sagebrush Lizard
Texas Plan Not Sufficient to Protect Lizard from Extinction WASHINGTON (June 19, 2013) — Defenders of Wildlife and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a
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