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Right Whale in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time

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Posted on December 13, 2021 by Gregory Bibler. The Marine Mammal Protection Act requires NMFS to prevent the depletion of endangered marine mammals that interact with commercial fisheries, the court stated, and the Endangered Species Act embodies Congress’s “plain intent.

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

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The bill retains a provision from the House bill repealing section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021. 6180 ) to incentivize removing invasive lionfish from the oceans.

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ESA Policy News: October 24, 2022

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NSF: The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics released the data tables for the 2021 Survey of Earned Doctorates. The data shows that the number of doctorates awarded in 2021 dropped by 5.4%% from 2020 levels, the biggest decrease recorded since NSF started tracking this information in 1958. in 2016 to 30.2%

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ESA Policy News: November 7, 2022

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This summit will build on the work of the 2021 tribal nations summit, as well as other on-going work to strengthen nation-to-nation relations. USFWS: The agency granted threatened species protections for the Emperor Penguin ( Aptenodytes forsteri ) under the Endangered Species Act. 30 and Dec. NOAA – U.S.

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The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon. The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway.

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Hatcheries like the Carson National Fish Hatchery, pictured here, breed millions of salmon and let them grow until they are mature enough to be released so they can try to swim to the ocean. Nearly 250 million young salmon, most of them from hatcheries, head to the ocean each year — roughly three times as many as before any dams were built.

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September 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Circuit found that FERC failed to address the significance of a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulation that the petitioners argued required use of the social cost of carbon or another methodology to assess the impacts of the projects’ greenhouse gas emissions. 3, 2021); Vecinos para el Bienestar de la Comunidad Costera v.

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ESA Policy News: August 30, 2021

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UN plans virtual Biodiversity Conference in October 2021 and in-person meeting in April and May 2022. Innovation and Competition Act with representatives from the White House and the Commerce Department. 16, 2021 ). 16, 2021 ). The agency attributes the species status to declining water quality and quantity.

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