COLUMBUS, Ohio – Conservation groups today sued the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Bureau of Land Management over plans to permit hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in Ohio’s only national forest, the Wayne. The lawsuit aims to void BLM leases and halt fracking in the national forest. Today’s lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Columbus, charges that the agencies failed to analyze threats to …
An environmental group filed suit in federal court this week against the Trump administration saying that a freeze on an ‘endangered species’ designation for the rusty patched bumblebee is illegal. Officials with the U-S Fish and Wildlife Service say the bumblebee has disappeared from ninety percent of its habitat. It used to be in Michigan – but has rarely been seen in recent years.
An environmentalist group has reached a tentative settlement with the USDA in a lawsuit accusing the agency’s predator control efforts of violating federal law. Attorneys for USDA and Wildearth Guardians, an environmental non-profit, have notified the judge overseeing the case that they’ve struck a deal “in principle, subject to approval by the appropriate government officials.” The notice …