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California Resolution Calls for “Year of the California Grizzly Bear” 2024 Marks Centennial of State Animal Extirpation...
Posted: Fri, Mar 22, 2024 12:46pm PDT
Oʻahu Community Leaders File Petition to Protect Coalition Name From Developers HONOLULU, March 14, 2024 — The Center for Biological Diversity and community leaders filed a petition this week with the Hawai‘i Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to protect their coalition’s original name from being hijacked by developers....
Posted: Fri, Mar 22, 2024 12:43pm PDT
U.S. Tries to Force Potentially Hazardous GM Corn on Mexico 
U.S. Position Based on Sham Regulatory Regime That Does Not Ensure GMO Safety, Mexico Fully Justified in Prohibiting GM Corn for Staple Corn Products...
Posted: Fri, Mar 22, 2024 12:36pm PDT
Eastern Monarch Butterfly Overwintering Area In Mexico Drops Precipitously MEXICO CITY, February 7, 2024 – The annual census of monarch numbers at the overwintering sites in central Mexico was released today by World Wildlife Fund-Mexico and partners. It revealed that in just one year, the presence of monarch butterflies in their Mexico wintering grounds dropped by more than half, from 2.2 hectares to 0.9 hectares....
Posted: Thu, Feb 29, 2024 1:34pm PST
U.S. Geological Survey Will Restore Annual Counts of About 400 Farm Pesticides Pesticides Applied to Seeds to Remain Uncounted...
Posted: Thu, Feb 29, 2024 1:25pm PST
Legal Petition Aims to Plug Thousands of Old Offshore Oil Wells 
GAO Report Reveals Alarming Decommissioning Gaps in Gulf of Mexico, Pacific...
Posted: Thu, Feb 29, 2024 7:45am PST
Southern Resident Orcas Receive Oregon Endangered Species Protections 
PORTLAND, Ore., February 16, 2024 — The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission voted today to protect Southern Resident orcas under the state’s Endangered Species Act, responding to a February 2023 petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, and Whale and Dolphin Conservation....
Posted: Mon, Feb 26, 2024 9:38pm PST
ExxonMobil Drops Court Bid to Truck Oil in Santa Barbara LOS ANGELES, February 16, 2024 — ExxonMobil’s dangerous proposal to truck massive amounts of oil along California highways is dead after the company dropped its lawsuit challenging Santa Barbara County’s denial of the plan....
Posted: Mon, Feb 26, 2024 9:31pm PST
Six Pesticides Threaten Over Half of Endangered Species 
Lawsuit Targets Federal Fish and Wildlife Service’s Failure to Protect Endangered Species From Toxic Pesticides...
Posted: Thu, Feb 1, 2024 10:14am PST
Biden Administration Moves to Protect Old-Growth Forests 
Environmental Groups Welcome Needed Action on Old Growth, Urge Future Action on Mature Forests...
Posted: Fri, Dec 22, 2023 3:31pm PST
Law Center Statement on 12% Increase in Homelessness Point in Time results must drive housing investments, not despair...
Posted: Mon, Dec 18, 2023 11:57am PST
Pro-Palestine Student Group in Florida Sues University System to Prevent Deactivation University of Florida’s Students for Justice in Palestine is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Florida, and Palestine Legal...
Posted: Fri, Nov 17, 2023 11:23am PST
Law Center Statement on UN Report Decrying Ongoing Human Rights Abuses Against Unhoused People WASHINGTON, D.C. – (November 3, 2023) Today, the United Nations Human Rights Committee highlighted serious and ongoing patterns of human rights abuses — including those against people experiencing homelessness and poverty — in the Concluding Observations from its recent convening that investigated the United States’ compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights....
Posted: Tue, Nov 7, 2023 10:40am PST
DeSantis’ order to deactivate National SJP in Florida Palestine Legal issued the following statement regarding DeSantis’ order to deactivate National SJP in Florida:...
Posted: Thu, Oct 26, 2023 2:03pm PDT
Debut Graphic Novel Highlights Plight of California Mountain Lions 
‘Tales of the Urban Wild: A Puma’s Journey’ to be Released Oct. 24...
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2023 11:18am PDT
California Becomes First State to Ban “Excited Delirium” as a Cause of Death Governor Newsom signs landmark bill following tireless community activism and PHR report on the pseudoscience of “excited delirium"...
Posted: Fri, Oct 13, 2023 9:06pm PDT
U.S. Receives Failing Grades on Human Right to Housing Report Card 
Limited Progress During Pandemic Offset By Inactions Since...
Posted: Thu, Oct 5, 2023 10:26am PDT
Court Upholds Denial of ExxonMobil’s Plan to Truck Oil in Santa Barbara, Restart Offshore Drilling LOS ANGELES, September 27, 2023 — The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California today upheld Santa Barbara County’s denial of ExxonMobil’s proposal to transport oil by tanker trucks along hazardous California highways. The plan would have helped the company restart three drilling platforms off the Santa Barbara coast, shut down since the disastrous Refugio oil spill eight years ago....
Posted: Thu, Sep 28, 2023 7:33am PDT
Appeal Aims to Protect California’s Pine Mountain, Reyes Peak From Massive Logging Project 
LOS ANGELES, September 19, 2023 — Conservation groups filed an appeal today asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to cancel a controversial logging and vegetation clearing project atop Pine Mountain and Reyes Peak in Southern California’s Los Padres National Forest....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2023 7:59am PDT
EPA Makes Pesticide Incident Reports Publicly Available for First Time Data Details Serious Harms Caused by Pesticides...
Posted: Fri, Jul 28, 2023 7:16am PDT
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