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Conservationists' Lawsuit Gains Critical Habitat for Atlantic Salmon
Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ - Sep 5, 2008
The announcement came in response to a 2007 lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of Merrymeeting Bay, and river activist Doug Watts. ...

Bush Administration Sneak Attack on Endangered Species Act
Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ - Sep 4, 2008
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity and dozens of other groups submitted comments today on another Bush administration attempt to weaken the ...
Conservation groups may sue on rodent protection The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
all 20 news articles

At-risk turtles face fate as pets, soup
Florida Times-Union, FL - 16 hours ago
Rogers, along with the neighboring Altamaha Riverkeeper, the California-based Center for Biological Diversity and the Center for Food Safety in Washington, ...

Protection Sought for Dusky Tree Vole Under Endangered Species Act
Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ - Sep 4, 2008
The Center for Biological Diversity, Cascadia Wildlands Project, Oregon Wild and Portland Audubon filed a formal notice of intent to sue today against ...
Three Arctic Seal Species Advance Toward Center for Biological Diversity (press release)
all 2 news articles

Oil Shale and Tar Sands Commercial Leasing Program
Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ - Sep 5, 2008
The Center for Biological Diversity is dedicated to e nsuring that atmospheric carbon dioxide pollutant levels are reduced to below 350 ppm, which leading ...

Group files appeal on permit for Desert Rock plant
NewsWest9.com, TX - Sep 2, 2008
AP - September 2, 2008 6:45 PM ET ALBUQUERQUE, NM (AP) - The Center for Biological Diversity has appealed an air permit for the planned coal-fired Desert ...

Center for Biological Diversity Challenge Prompts
Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ - Aug 22, 2008
LAS VEGAS– In response to an administrative challenge by the Center for Biological Diversity, a federal agency has required the organizers of a 550-mile ...

Federal government will review ice seals
Seattle Times, United States - Sep 4, 2008
Shaye Wolf of the Center for Biological Diversity, the lead author of the listing petition, said it was filed for the same reason her group sought a polar ...

Critical Habitat Protection From Monterey Bay To Canadian Border ...
Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ - Sep 5, 2008
The proposal is a result of a 2007 settlement agreement arising out of a lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity to secure critical habitat. ...

Feds urge sturgeon protection
Appeal-Democrat, CA - 16 hours ago
The federal agency is proposing the designation as part of a 2007 settlement a lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity to secure critical ...

A new plan for old fish
The Missoulian, MT - Sep 3, 2008
“The Kootenai River white sturgeon is on the brink of extinction,” said Noah Greenwald, science director for the Center for Biological Diversity. ...

Groups plan to sue for listing of another forest species
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - Sep 4, 2008
The groups including the Center for Biological Diversity, Cascadia Wildlands Project, Oregon Wild and Audubon Society of Portland said they would sue ...

Desert conservation planning heats up
Tucson Citizen, AZ - Sep 5, 2008
Kierán Suckling, executive director and co-founder of the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity, has been building an endangered species database for ...

California Tiger Salamander Moves Closer to Protection Under ...
Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ - Sep 3, 2008
The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the Commission in 2004 to list the California tiger salamander as endangered due to the impacts of urban and ...

Environment lawyer loves Joshua Tree home
Press-Enterprise, CA - Sep 4, 2008
As an attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity, Siegel was the main author of the first petition, 170 pages in all, to the US Department of the ...

Historic Agreement Reached to Save Kootenai River White Sturgeon
Ruralnorthwest.com, ID - Sep 2, 2008
After extensive negotiations, the Center for Biological Diversity, Kootenai Tribe of Idaho, the State of Montana, US Fish and Wildlife Service, ...

Palin: The Most Extremist Candidate Since Goldwater
Huffington Post, NY - Sep 5, 2008
"She's either grossly misinformed or intentionally misleading," according to Kassie Siegel of the Center for Biological Diversity. ...

Center Appeals EPA Coal-Fired Power Plant Permit; No Endangered ...
E-Wire (press release), TX - Sep 3, 2008
3 -/E-Wire/-- The Center for Biological Diversity today appealed the Environmental Protection Agency's July 31, 2008 approval of a Clean Air Act permit to ...

News Briefs
Capital Press (subscription), OR - Sep 6, 2008
"We hope this leads to recovery," said Noah Greenwald, science director for the Center for Biological Diversity. "This historic agreement helps give the ...

WWF International

Polar Bears at Risk of Drowning in the Chukchi Sea;
Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ - Aug 21, 2008
“The impact of global warming is brutal and tragic for polar bears,” said Kassie Siegel, climate program director at the Center for Biological Diversity and ...
Observers spot 9 polar bears in open ocean KTUU
Polar bear sightings stir climate debate Los Angeles Times
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US, state lawsuits seek help for 'boulder bunny'
Record-Searchlight, CA - Aug 21, 2008
He said he has seen the Center for Biological Diversity’s news release about the lawsuits, but not the legal paperwork itself. “It has not been served at ...

Oil Group Joins Alaska in Suing To Overturn Polar Bear Protection
Washington Post, United States - Aug 30, 2008
Kassie Siegel, climate program director for the Center for Biological Diversity, which originally petitioned to list the polar bear as an endangered species ...

New plan for endangered Bay Area butterfly
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - Aug 26, 2008
Representatives of the Center for Biological Diversity, a nonprofit that has filed dozens of lawsuits challenging the government's record on saving wildlife ...

My Tucson: Here's the dirt on shovel-nosed snake threat
Tucson Citizen, AZ - Aug 26, 2008
No wonder Adler calls the act "a pit bull" of a law, and the Center for Biological Diversity calls it "powerful." It was the Tucson-based Center for ...
Bush Administration Set to Undermine Habitat Protections for ... Center for Biological Diversity (press release)
Critical Habitat Designation Falls Short, Fails to Protect Unique ... Center for Biological Diversity (press release)
all 4 news articles

Deal reached to help Kootenai sturgeon spawn
The Associated Press - Sep 3, 2008
"We hope this leads to recovery," Noah Greenwald, science director for the Center for Biological Diversity, said Tuesday. "This historic agreement helps ...

Center Uncovers Gaps in Proposed Gas-mileage Standards; Court ...
E-Wire (press release), TX - Aug 19, 2008
19 -/E-Wire/-- In comments filed today, the Center for Biological Diversity highlighted legally fatal flaws in the Bush administration's latest inadequate ...

San Francisco Chronicle

Global warming threatens pika, lawsuit claims
Sacramento Bee,  USA - Aug 20, 2008
Greg Loarie of Earthjustice, an environmental legal firm representing the Center for Biological Diversity in the suit, said the pika, which is intolerant of ...
American Pika -- The Rabbit Cousin That Hates Global Warming San Francisco Chronicle
Lawsuit could force decision on calling the pika endangered Seattle Times
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Motion Filed to Extend Review of Endangered Desert Nesting Bald Eagle
Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ - Aug 28, 2008
Wednesday’s motion was filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, Maricopa Audubon, the Intertribal Council of Arizona, and the Salt River Pima-Maricopa ...
Judge grants extension of bald-eagle protection Arizona Republic
Judge extends protection for desert bald eagles San Diego Union Tribune
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Southern California National Forests in Peril;
Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ - Aug 14, 2008
... for millions of people seeking relief from the concrete jungle,” said David Hogan, conservation manager at the Center for Biological Diversity. ...
Critical Habitat Designation Threatens Two Endangered California ... Center for Biological Diversity (press release)
all 3 news articles

Marina Point is on again
Big Bear Grizzly,  USA - Aug 14, 2008
5, the Ninth Circuit United States Court of Appeals reversed a 2006 decision that favored the Center for Biological Diversity and the Friends of Fawnskin ...

Klamath River eNews - Dam Removal Advocates Get Ready for 'Day of ...
Bay Area Indymedia, CA - Sep 4, 2008
Read the news article above, then take a stand for the Klamath's endangered coho and send a quick letter through the Center for Biological Diversity at ...

Environmentalists Sue to Protect Calif. Forests
KPBS, CA - Aug 14, 2008
David Hogan with the Center for Biological Diversity says some of those activities include roads, off-road vehicles, power lines, oil and gas, logging, ...

Center Halts Illegal Goshawk Guidelines
Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ - Aug 22, 2008
The 1996 standards and guidelines, drawn up in response to litigation pressed by the Center for Biological Diversity, regulate logging intensity. ...

Federal government will review ice seals
KTUU, AK - Sep 4, 2008
Shaye Wolf of the Center for Biological Diversity, which filed the petition to list the ice seals, said loss of sea ice and early sea-ice breakup threaten ...

REGION: Groups sue to throw out forest plans
North County Times, CA - Aug 14, 2008
It is time to start over, said David Hogan, conservation manager for the Center for Biological Diversity in San Diego, one of seven groups to join the ...

EDITORIAL: Environmentalists and energy
Las Vegas Review - Journal, NV - Aug 22, 2008
Organizations such as the Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity have sued to block various "clean" energy projects for all the reasons listed ...

Sarah Palin: Making John McCain Look Like Al Gore?
It's Getting Hot In Here, DC - Aug 30, 2008
The Center for Biological Diversity, which petitioned for the polar bear to be protected, wants the listing to force the government to either stop or ...

Oil-shale go-ahead decried
Denver Post, CO - Sep 4, 2008
It did not appear those questions were answered, said Amy Atwood, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity in Portland, Ore. ...

Loans to help rid residents of their lawns
Las Vegas Sun, NV - Sep 2, 2008
After the Center for Biological Diversity asked the Bureau of Land Management to examine the potential effect on the delicate toad, organizers of the 12th ...

Alpine 'Boulder Bunny' Imperiled by Global Warming
Media Newswire (press release), NY - Aug 21, 2008
"The pika is the American West's canary in the coal mine," said Shaye Wolf, a biologist with the Center for Biological Diversity. ...

LiveScience.com

Ribbon Seal Endangered
LiveScience.com, NY - Sep 5, 2008
... the San-Francisco-based Center for Biological Diversity petitioned NOAA’s Fisheries Service to list the ribbon seal as threatened or endangered, ...

Groups Ask California Energy Commission to Address Greenhouse Gas ...
Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ - Aug 28, 2008
On behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity, Earthjustice moved today to intervene in a power plant licensing proceeding before the California Energy ...

New Mexico News Brief, Thursday, Sept. 3
KOAT - Sep 3, 2008
ALBUQUERQUE, NM - The Center for Biological Diversity has appealed an air permit for the planned coal-fired Desert Rock power plant on the Navajo Nation in ...

Appeal lodged against Desert Rock air permit
IJ Online, UK - Sep 3, 2008
The Center for Biological Diversity lodged the appeal, claiming the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) failed to consider the project's effect on ...

California Court Rules Land-Use Decisions Must Address Global Warming
SustainableBusiness.com, NY - Aug 14, 2008
In response to a lawsuit from the Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club, a California court has rejected a proposal to build a controversial ...

Palin Likes Polar Bears, But She Likes Oil, Too
Reason Online, CA - Aug 29, 2008
... make global warming policy in a New York Times opinion piece: The Center for Biological Diversity, which petitioned for the polar bear to be protected, ...

Court Ruling Threatens Protections for 58 Million Acres of ...
Center for Biological Diversity (press release), AZ - Aug 13, 2008
“This ruling may create a legal quagmire for our last pristine forests” said Taylor McKinnon, public lands director with the Center for Biological Diversity ...

Local officials express confidence about status of Big Chino pipeline
Sun Shopper, AZ - Aug 13, 2008
For example, water attorney Norm James emphasized that nearly four years have gone by since the Center for Biological Diversity's 2004 threat of a lawsuit ...

Washington Post

Sea-Ice Melt Imperils Walruses, and Economy Based on Them
Washington Post, United States - Aug 28, 2008
... a staff biologist for the Center for Biological Diversity, which is petitioning for an Endangered Species Act listing for the walrus. ...

Habitat designated for endangered butterfly
Palo Alto Online, CA - Aug 28, 2008
Biologist Shaye Wolf, with the Center for Biological Diversity, has blasted the Fish and Wildlife Service, saying instead of "providing adequate, ...

Settlement to help sturgeon
Montana's News Station, MT - Sep 4, 2008
The Center for Biological Diversity wanted more water in the river at spawning times, so it sued the Corps in 2003. As the case evolved, ...

Commission Ordered to Consider Listing Salamander as Endangered
Metropolitan News-Enterprise, CA - Sep 3, 2008
The panel agreed with Sacramento Superior Court Judge Lloyd G. Connelly that the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmentalist group, ...

Bush Administration Ignores Science, Removes W.Va. Northern Flying ...
E-Wire (press release), TX - Aug 28, 2008
The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 180000 members and online activists dedicated to the ...

Curbed

South Central Battle Continues: Farmers Call For Investigation
Curbed, NY - Aug 18, 2008
... the National Resources Defense Council, Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles, the Center for Biological Diversity, Communities for a Better Environment, ...

Environmentalists sue US Forest Service
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - Aug 14, 2008
In a lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court Thursday, the Center for Biological Diversity and six other nonprofit groups argued that the Forest ...

I think Earthjustice got it (mostly) right
Grist Magazine, WA - Aug 18, 2008
(Note: Earthjustice is representing the Center for Biological Diversity on this issue.) It would be interesting to get the perspectives of other groups (eg ...

Targeting end of pesticides to kill lamprey
BurlingtonFreePress.com, VT - Aug 14, 2008
The broadest critique of the lamprey program came from the Center for Biological Diversity. The Lake Champlain Committee and the Adirondack Council also ...

First Tracks

Court reversal on San Francisco Peaks magnifies collapse of US ...
The NarcoSphere, NY - Aug 8, 2008
... Havasupai Tribe, White Mountain Apache Nation, Yavapai-Apache Nation, Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity, and the Flagstaff Activist Network. ...
Appeals Court Sides with Arizona Ski Area First Tracks
Appeals court gives green light to Snowbowl snowmaking San Antonio Business Journal
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Industry groups file lawsuit over polar bear rule
The Associated Press - Aug 28, 2008
Brendan Cummings, the oceans program director for the Center for Biological Diversity, which is challenging the rule in court on the grounds that it is ...

New habitat plans for bighorn sheep
The Desert Sun, CA - Aug 31, 2008
“(The) revised proposal is a blueprint for extinction, not recovery,” said Lisa Belenky, senior attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity. ...

Certain to Get Colbert Bump: Sarah Palin Wrote 'NYT' Op-Ed on ...
Editor & Publisher - Aug 29, 2008
The Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group, has argued that global warming and the reduction of polar ice severely threatens the bears’ ...

Is it hot in here or am I just a pika?
Plenty Magazine, NY - Aug 20, 2008
According to the Center for Biological Diversity, the pika "can die from overheating when exposed to temperatures as low as 80°F for just a few hours. ...

Should we care about an endangered dandelion?
Plenty Magazine, NY - Aug 19, 2008
The agency's ruling lowers the expected amount of protected habitat for the bluegrass, and, according to the Center for Biological Diversity, ...

Boston Globe

Sarah Palin: Tough on polar bears
Boston Globe, United States - Aug 29, 2008
"She's either grossly misinformed or intentionally misleading, and both are unbecoming," said Kassie Siegel of the Center for Biological Diversity. ...

US adds polar bear to threatened list
USA Today - Aug 20, 2008
Kassie Siegel, a lawyer with the Center for Biological Diversity, said the group does not accept Kempthorne's view. The act requires federal agencies to ...

Carbon market may fund dam in Panama that threatens natural reserve
Mongabay.com - Sep 1, 2008
... and effectively extirpate up to 11 aquatic species from the Biosphere Reserve," wrote the Center for Biological Diversity in a statement last year. ...

US. Bureau of Land Management Waives Review for Solar Projects
The Heartland Institute, IL - Aug 21, 2008
The Center for Biological Diversity, California Desert Coalition, and Defenders of Wildlife are also on record opposing the San Diego Gas and Electric solar ...

Officials want to expand habitat for California bighorn sheep
Scripps News, DC - Aug 29, 2008
Lisa Belenky, a senior attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, said that large gaps remain in the hillsides where the sheep roam, ...

The Associated Press

Border fence design blasted as causing flooding
The Associated Press - Aug 25, 2008
... washes prone to debris-laden floods is fundamentally flawed," Robin Silver, a spokesman for the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement. ...

WKRG-TV

'Sneaky' Bush Attack on Endangered Species Angers Conservationists
Environment News Service - Aug 21, 2008
... Act is a safety net for our nation’s wildlife, fish and plants on the brink of extinction, said Bill Snape of the Center for Biological Diversity. ...
104 Citizens Groups Criticize Anti-Democratic Rulemaking Common Dreams (press release)
all 104 news articles

Christian Science Monitor

Do uranium mines belong near Grand Canyon?
Christian Science Monitor, MA - Aug 19, 2008
“They are charging forward,” says Taylor McKinnon, public lands director for the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group based in Tucson, ...

Pollack report: Locals question validity of study's conclusions
Sun Shopper, AZ - Sep 1, 2008
"For instance, if the public were to expend the monies needed to construct the pipeline and then (Salt River Project) or the Center for Biological Diversity ...

Washington Post

Oil Group Joins Alaska in Suing To Overturn Polar Bear Protection
Washington Post, United States - Aug 31, 2008
Kassie Siegel, climate program director for the Center for Biological Diversity, which originally petitioned to list the polar bear as an endangered species ...

Back to drawing board: Court tosses Palmwood EIR
The Desert Sun, CA - Aug 14, 2008
6 Riverside County Superior Court ruling sided with the Sierra Club and Center for Biological Diversity. It invalidated an environmental impact report for ...

Desert tortoise numbers continue to decline
The Associated Press - Aug 25, 2008
"To me it's a plan that says they're going to do more planning," said Ileene Anderson of the Center for Biological Diversity. The agency's new proposal, ...

CBS News

Parts of the Endangered Species Act may soon become extinct
Gather.com, MA - Aug 12, 2008
... into law in 1973 to refuse to list a single species under the act, except under court order, an analysis by the Center for Biological Diversity finds. ...
Endangered Species: In More Danger TIME
Bush Administration Proposes Loosening Endangered Species Act Science Magazine (subscription)
google news commentComment by Luke Metzger Director, Environment Texas
Center for Biological Diversity (press release)
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Protection for Mojave desert tortoise may not be working
Tucson Citizen, AZ - Aug 24, 2008
That approach is too weak and vague in the face of ongoing declines, said Ileene Anderson of Los Angeles office of the Center for Biological Diversity, ...

US hydrogen researchers target 300 mile range breakthrough
Business Green, UK - Aug 19, 2008
This week, the Center for Biological Diversity criticised the US administration for what it said were inadequate proposals to change fuel efficiency ...

Mines still threaten Colorado River, foes say
Arizona Republic, AZ - Aug 10, 2008
... rim were poised to drill exploratory tunnels last year when Grand Canyon Trust, the Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity intervened. ...

Environmental groups sue Forest Service
San Diego Union Tribune, United States - Aug 14, 2008
The plaintiffs are the Center for Biological Diversity, Los Padres ForestWatch, Sierra Club, Defenders of Wildlife, California Native Plant Society, ...

Court OKs use of sewage water on sacred mountain
Indian Country Today, NY - Aug 17, 2008
Taylor McKinnon, public lands director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said environmental groups would also appeal the decision.