On Tuesday, the Center for Biological Diversity won a temporary court injunction halting the implementation of the settlement.
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Already, however, a battle has broken out between WildEarth Guardians and the Center for Biological Diversity, a Tucson, Ariz.
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The plaintiffs in the Monterey shale lawsuit were the local chapters of the Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity.
First filed by the Center for Biological Diversity in 2002, the Bush administration delayed consideration of the petition for six years.
Of course, the Center for Biological Diversity is not a dispassionate observer.
The Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club had also sued Kern County last October over its green-lighting of the 300-megawatt North Sky River project.
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"The grim news about polar bears and sea ice decline is horrifying, but it is a call to action, not despair, " said Kassie Siegel of the Center for Biological Diversity.
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"This decision is a watershed event because it has forced the Bush administration to acknowledge global warming's brutal impacts, " said Kassie Siegel, climate program director at the Center for Biological Diversity.
In one example among many, the Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, and the Sierra Club, filed a lawsuit challenging a 100-turbine wind development in mountains north of the Mojave Desert.
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Over the past four years, WildEarth Guardians and another environmental group, the Center for Biological Diversity, have filed petitions to add more than a thousand plants and plants to the endangered species list.
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The Center for Biological Diversity was one of three environmental groups, including Greenpeace and the Natural Resources Defense Council, that sued the federal government to force a decision on the status of the polar bears.
Since that unfortunate decision, far-leftwing anti-development organizations like Wild Earth Guardians, Earth Justice, and The Center for Biological Diversity, among others, have increasingly abused the ESA as a tool for slowing or even halting any form of human industrial progress in some regions.
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Brendan Cummings, oceans programme director at the Center for Biological Diversity which has brought several court actions against the Bush administration on climate change, also welcomed the commercial fishing ban but said curbing greenhouse emissions was also vital for the long-term preservation of corals.
In October 2012, The Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, and the Sierra Club, filed suit in the Kern County Superior Court in Bakersfield, California to reopen an environmental review of a 100-turbine North Sky River wind project and a smaller adjacent Jawbone project in the mountains north of the Mojave Desert over threats to California condors.
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One expert on diversity, Steven Scherer of the Center for Applied Genomics, is a coauthor of Venter's paper.
During the mid-19th century, Maryland was a major immigration center, and its ethnic diversity (Maryland has a higher percentage of black residents -- 25 percent -- than any state outside the South) still sets it apart from many Southern regions.
She said the center crafted its brief to appeal to Roberts, emphasizing evidence that diversity in higher education serves the national interest.
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