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• Judge Orders US Polar Bear decision by May 15 (Reuters, 4/29/08)
  The Bush administration must decide by May 15 whether polar bears in the United States should be listed as threatened by climate change under the Endangered Species Act, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday, barring further delay...
  
  
• Off Endangered List, Wolves Face New Pressure from Hunters (Daily Herald, 4/28/08)
  Tony Saunders stalked his prey for 35 miles by snowmobile through western Wyoming's Hoback Basin, finally reaching a clearing where he took out a .270-caliber rifle and shot the wolf twice from 30 yards away...Gray wolves in the Northern Rockies have been taken off the endangered species list and are being hunted freely for the first time since they were placed on that list three decades ago...
  
  
• Valley Air Proposal gets Hearing (Fresno Bee, 4/28/08)
  A public hearing Wednesday at the regional air district may sound like a rerun of a debate last year -- dozens of activists criticizing a cleanup plan and district leaders defending their work...
  
  
• Judge Slams U.S. Report OKing Pumping more Delta Water (The San Francisco Chronicle, 4/17/08)
  "This is a historic decision," said Mike Sherwood, an Earthjustice lawyer who represents the environmentalists. "It may well be the turning point to reverse the decline toward extinction of these fish."
  
  
• Global Warming has a New Battleground: Coal Plants (The Los Angeles Times, 4/14/08)
  Every time a new coal-fired power plant is proposed anywhere in the United States, a lawyer from the Sierra Club or an allied environmental group is assigned to stop it, by any bureaucratic or legal means necessary...
  
  
• In the West, a Fierce Battle Over Wolves (The New York Times, 4/13/08)
  Since March 28, when the wolf was taken off the list of federally protected species in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, a fierce battle of perceptions and posturing has unfolded on the Web and in the news media as pro-wolf and anti-wolf forces stake out sometimes hyperbolic positions concerning where in the West animals and humans should exist...
  
  
• Wolf's Death Stirs Fear for Species' Fate (The Salt Lake Tribune, 4/7/08)
  The wolf known as 253M left the safety of Yellowstone National Park and lit out for Utah, on the way becoming a darling of wolf-watchers around the world. Nicknamed "Limpy" because his back legs were crippled in a fight when he was young, 253M was just shy of 8 years old - a wolf Methuselah - when he died March 28, shot in Wyoming on the first day wolves lost their protected status under the U.S. Endangered Species Act...
  
  
• Exhibit Gives Close-Up View of the Effects of Global Warmin (Providence Journal, 4/3/08)
  "Irreplaceable: Wildlife in a Warming World" is the name of the new 40-print display that, over the next year, will be exhibited in such places as Montana, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Washington...
  
  
• Gray Wolves: Still Endangered? (CNN.com, 3/28/08)
  The gray wolf was officially removed from the Endangered Species Act's "threatened" list Friday after three decades -- a decision that has stoked controversy among environmentalists and ranchers...Check out this video to learn more!
  
  
• Environmental Regulators Take a New Look at Daven Port's Cement Plant's Mercury Emissions (Santa Cruz Sentinel, 3/22/08)
  Susan Young at one time didn't worry too much about the faint sulfer-like smell that blows from the nearby cement plant. Plant workers, local air district officials and even her neighbors told her she didn't have to...
  
  
• Park Bison Deaths Hit 1,192 (Casper Star-Tribune, 3/22/08)
  The capture and slaughter of Yellowstone National Park's wild bison pressed forward Friday, with 14 more bulls shipped to processing facilities and 120 animals herded into park holding pens for disease testing.
  
  
• Collapse of Salmon Stocks Endangers Pacific Fishery (The New York Times, 3/13/08)
  Federal officials have indicated that they are likely to close the Pacific salmon fishery from northern Oregon to the Mexican border because of the collapse of crucial stocks in California's major watershed...
  
  
• Earthjustice Claims Win in Makua Suit (Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 3/12/08)
  A federal judge told the Army yesterday to quickly expand cultural access to native Hawaiian sites at its Makua Military Reservation on Oahu...
  
  
• EPA Reconsidering Mercury Rules in Response to State Lawsuit (San Jose Mercury, 3/6/08)
  Responding to a lawsuit by Michigan and eight other states including Connecticut and Massachusetts, the Bush administration is reconsidering its policy on mercury emissions from cement plants, which critics say allows too much air pollution...
  
  
• Loans Program for Coal Plants Suspended (Denver Post, 3/5/08)
  The federal government is suspending a major loan program for coal-fired power plants in rural communities, saying the uncertainties of climate change and rising construction costs make the loans too risky. "This is a big decision...new coal plants can't go to the federal government for money..." said Abigail Dillen with Earthjustice.
  
  
• Navy Sonar Ban in California Upheld (The New York Times, 3/2/08)
  The Navy must abide by limits on its sonar training off the Southern California because the exercises could harm dozens of species of whales and dolphins, a federal appeals court ruled...
  
  
• Federal Judge puts Restrictions on Navy Sonar Exercises (KHNL NBC 8, 3/1/08)
  The Navy says sonar exercises are critical for national defense. Environmentalists say they harm and can kill marine mammals. On Friday, a federal judge intervened in this heated battle...
  
  
• Farmworkers Want Pesticide Ban Hastened (Washington Post, 2/23/08)
  To this day, I still experience severe headaches, which I attribute to this poisoning incident," he said in a court declaration last fall. "There are workers getting sick," Patti Goldman of the environmental law firm Earthjustice told U.S. District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez. "This isn't just hypothetical. There are workers being taken out of the field."
  
  
• Northern Rockies Gray Wolves Loose Federal Protection (USA Today, 2/21/08)
  Gray wolves in the Northern Rockies will be removed from the endangered species list, following a 13-year restoration effort that helped the animal's population soar, federal officials said Thursday...
  
  
• Army Sued Again Over Access to Makua (The Honolulu Advertiser, 2/21/08)
  Earthjustice has made good on its pledge to take the U.S. Army back to court over what it sees as flagrant violations of a 2001 court-ordered settlement decree to allow Native Hawaiian groups cultural access to numerous sacred sites in the Makua Military Reservation...
  
  
• Court Rejects Emission 'Trades': EPA Effort to Limit Mercury Output Is Said to Ignore Law (Washington Post, 2/9/08)
  A federal appeals court yesterday threw out the Environmental Protection Agency's approach to limiting mercury emitted from power-plant smokestacks, saying the agency ignored laws and twisted logic when it imposed new standards that were favorable to plant owners...
  
  
• Wolf Killing Rule is Contested (Seattle Post Intelligencer, 1/30/2008)
  Environmental groups have sued to block a federal rule that would allow state wildlife agents to kill more endangered gray wolves in the Northern Rockies...
  
  
• US Plan OKs Logging in Alaska National Forest (The San Francisco Chronicle, 1/26/08)
  More than 3 million acres in Alaska's Tongass National Forest would be open to logging under a federal plan that supporters believe will revive the state's struggling timber industry. Environmentalists, however, fear that the proposal will devastate the forest...
  
  
• Release of Methane Protested (Rocky Mountain News, 1/22/2008)
  A Western Slope coal mine set to belch massive volumes of methane gas will become a major new source of global warming emissions, and government regulators are doing too little to prevent it, environmentalists say...
  
  
• Bush Adds More Fuel To Legal Fires Over Sonar Training Drills (Honolulu Star Bulletin, 1/19/2007)
  If President Bush thought his exemption of Navy sonar drills from environmental laws would shut down legal challenges, he was wrong...
  
  
• City Sues Bush Administration Over Heating Standards (The New York Times, 1/17/2008)
  In another sign that local governments are growing impatient with Washington’s timid approach to resolving environmental problems, New York City and three states today joined environmental advocacy groups in suing the Bush administration over new standards for gas-fired furnaces and other home heating appliances...