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Reforming the California Endangered Species Act

Legal Planet

Yet, despite this context, the state’s primary legal tool to protect biodiversity, the California Endangered Species Act (CESA), has stayed mostly the same for over twenty years. Provide more clarity for species listing decisions. Currently the factors for listing decisions are in the regulations, not the statute.

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Death by a Thousand Cuts: Ontario’s Dismantling of the Endangered Species Act

Enviromental Defense

In Ontario, there are currently over 200 species of plants and animals at risk of extinction. These species are the most vulnerable and require species-specific conservation efforts to survive. Unfortunately, changes to regulations in recent years clearly highlight Ontario’s lack of effort to protect these species.

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Change Is in the Air: The Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the Endangered Species Act and the Biden Administration

Arnold Porter

The Biden Administration has signaled that it will be rolling out significant changes related to the interpretation and enforcement of key provisions of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Endangered Species Act. 45020 (Aug. 81411 (Dec.

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FWS and NOAA Decide That “Habitat” Should Not Be Defined By Regulation: I Hope This Is Good News

Law and Environment

This week, the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a rule rescinding the rule issued in 2020 defining “habitat” for the purposes of determining what constitutes “critical habitat” under the Endangered Species Act. This came to a head in 2018 in Weyerhaeuser v. (i)

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FWS Streamline ESA Voluntary Conservation Programs

National Law Center

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (“FWS”) have issued a final rule to update the implementing regulations for Section 10. The post FWS Streamline ESA Voluntary Conservation Programs appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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Service Proposes to Overhaul ESA Permitting Regulations

Endangered Species Law

Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) published proposed revisions to its regulations governing incidental take and enhancement of survival permitting under Endangered Species Act (ESA) section 10.

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The Supreme Court’s Top-10 Environmental Law Decisions

Legal Planet

Unless the Court moderates its views, future regulations will face tough sledding. The Clean Water Act requires that industrial sources reduce their discharges, but it left two big questions unanswered: Would EPA or the states set the pollution limits? This is the case that put teeth into the Endangered Species Act.

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