endangered species
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The strategy is part of larger interagency effort to promote recovery of the North Atlantic right whale while responsibly developing offshore wind.
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The US Fish and Wildlife Service said the dunes sagebrush lizard, which lives in and around the Permian Basin region, should be listed as an endangered species.
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The new listing aims to prevent further loss of habitat for the flamboyant, stocky birds, which have drastically dwindled in population.
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The groups and states want the Ninth Circuit to restore rules that changed how agencies classify endangered or threatened species and their habitats under the Endangered Species Act.
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The Trump administration has shelved plans to offer nearly 350,000 acres for oil and gas leasing in Wyoming, according to documents seen by Reuters, citing protections for a threatened Western bird.
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A US judge in Montana has thrown out a Trump administration directive that weakened an Obama-era policy aimed at protecting the threatened bird, invalidating hundreds of oil and gas leases on federal land in Montana and Wyoming.
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Canada’s wood bison, who live in northern Alberta near the proposed site of Teck Resources’s Frontier oil sands project, face “imminent threats” to their recovery, a report from the country’s environment department said.
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A federal judge on 16 October blocked the Trump administration’s plan to ease protections for an iconic bird that makes its home on millions of acres of oil- and gas-rich sagebrush lands, dealing a blow to government efforts to allow more drilling, mining, and logging in the west.
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Environmental advocates say some of America's most iconic species are getting squeezed under policies intended to boost American energy dominance. Trump administration officials counter that they are taking reasonable steps to protect wildlife while opening up public lands to more drilling.
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The Trump administration on 15 March amended Obama-era land-use rules put in place to protect a threatened bird in 11 Western states and its shrinking sagebrush habitat, siding with oil and gas interests that opposed the measures as too restrictive.
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