Center for Biological Diversity

Federal officials have renewed a mining ban on thousands of acres of Oak Creek Canyon. The protections lapsed five years ago leaving the area open to possible mining claims.

Environmental groups and Havasupai tribal members presented a petition to Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs Thursday urging her to close the Pinyon Plain uranium mine, less than 10 miles from Grand Canyon National Park.

A conservation group has sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, alleging the agency hasn't acted on updating habitat policy for the endangered Mt. Graham red squirrel in southern Arizona.

The federal Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has canceled plans to spray insecticides on the Colorado Plateau north of the Grand Canyon to kill grasshoppers and crickets.

Two environmental groups have sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the Fish and Wildlife Service over what they call “chronic unauthorized cattle grazing” in the Agua Fria National Monument.

The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service wants to use pesticides to treat nearly 2 million acres around the Grand Canyon to prevent an infestation of rangeland grasshoppers and Mormon crickets. The Center for Biological Diversity says the plan is a “shortsighted quick fix.”

A conservation group says it’ll sue the Biden administration over what it says is a failure of federal officials to stop cattle from damaging parts of Agua Fria National Monument.

Conservationists have sued the federal government over what they say is a failure to protect the habitat of two endangered bird species along the Gila River in Arizona from livestock grazing.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Arizona hunters won’t be barred from the use of lead ammunition even if the bullets left behind could result in the death of other animals.

A federal judge will hear arguments Thursday from conservation groups that want to stop two mining projects in southern Arizona’s Patagonia Mountains.