Environment

**Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and the **US Fish & Wildlife Service violate the Endangered Species Act by refusing to list the fluvial Arctic grayling as an endangered species, which will drive it to extinction, the **Center for Biological Diversity and others claim in Billings Federal Court. See complaint. **Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and the **US Fish & Wildlife Service violate the Endangered Species Act by refusing to designate critical habitat for the Santa Ana sucker fish, **California Trout claims in San Francisco Federal Court. See complaint.            The **U.S. Forest Service violated environmental laws in approving logging on 800 acres in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, and other activities on 242 acres of habitat for elk and other threatened species, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies claims in Helena Federal Court. See complaint.            **Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne illegally refuses to protect critical habitat for the endangered Mississippi gopher frog, the **Friends of Mississippi Public Lands claims in DC Federal Court.           The **Shuswap Indian Nation is lead plaintiff in a complaint that the Canadian **Minister of Environment and the British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority are violating environmental law with their “Rev 5” project on the Columbia River, in Vancouver, B.C., Supreme Court.