Endangered Species Act

A federal judge has thrown out a host of actions by the Trump administration to roll back protections for endangered or threatened species. This comes a year after the Biden administration said it was moving to strengthen those species protections. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar in Northern California eliminated the Trump-era rules Tuesday even as two wildlife agencies under President...

Federal authorities spent the past few years analyzing rules for the shipping industry and are now close to releasing fresh guidelines to help protect a vanishing species of whale. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been reviewing the speed regulations it uses to protect North Atlantic right whales, and according to spokesperson Allison Ferreira, the agency will publish new…

A wildlife agency that lost key court rulings over its denial of petitions to protect Yellowstone National Park bison will undertake a comprehensive study over whether the animals should be covered under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday. The decision follows a federal court ruling in January that ordered the U.S. Fish and...

A new push to protect the final remaining wild Atlantic salmon in the U.S. is unlikely to land the fish on a key state endangered list