Center for Biological Diversity v. Haaland

Center for Biological Diversity and three other conservation organizations filed a lawsuit in the federal district court for the Southern District of Florida challenging the National Park Service’s release of land-use restrictions to facilitate the development of a proposed waterpark, hotel, and retail development in Miami-Dade County. The organizations alleged that the project threatened survival and recovery of endangered species and “globally critically endangered pine rocklands,” which “have been reduced to only three percent of their historic range and continue to be critically endangered by urban and agricultural development, climate change, and sea level rise.” The complaint asserted that the National Park Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act.