Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The court was not persuaded by the plaintiffs’ contention that the FWS had concluded that conservation projects would outpace climate change effects on the trout or by the argument that the FWS erred by abandoning a finding in its 2008 determination that climate change constituted a “severe” threat to the trout that exacerbates other threats.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The court said that having remanded to the Corps for consultation under the Endangered Species Act, it was not necessary to determine whether the Corps “made a fully informed and well-considered decision” under NEPA and the Clean Water Act. filed May 1, 2020); Conservation Law Foundation v. F078460 (Cal.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Wisconsin Federal Court Dismissed Pro Se Lawsuit Claiming That Republican and Conservative Policies—Including Failure to Address Climate Change—Violated Plaintiff’s Rights. Army Corps of Engineers had violated the Clean Water Act. Department of Interior , No. 2:16 -cv-00285 (D. The plaintiffs contended that the U.S.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Army Corps of Engineers’ issue of a Section 404 permit under the Clean Water Act for a new petrochemical plant on the Mississippi River in Louisiana. In addition, Berkeley argued that the complaint failed to state a claim that the Energy Policy and Conservation Act preempted the ordinance. Bernhardt , No.

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