Alliance for the Wild Rockies v. Gassmann
A district court granted an environmental group's motion to preliminarily enjoin the Forest Service and FWS from moving forward with a logging and road building project in the Kootenai National Forest. The group argued the agencies violated the ESA by failing to conduct a lawful cumulative effects a...
Center for Biological Diversity v. Haaland
A district court granted FWS' motion for voluntary remand in a challenge to its 2020 decision to withdraw a 2013 proposed rule to list the wolverine as a threatened distinct population segment (DPS) in the contiguous United States under the ESA. Environmental groups argued the withdrawal was based o...
Community Input on State Environmental Justice Screening Tools
A number of environmental justice screening tools and processes have been developed across the United States in an effort to identify communities experiencing environmental injustice.