The Energy Law Blog
JULY 21, 2016
In 2010, under the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”), the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (“the FWS”) designated 6,477 acres in Mississippi and Louisiana as “critical habitat” for the Rana sevosa or the dusky gopher frog. This regulatory scheme could be undercut unless the intrastate activity is regulated.
Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
In 2001, the Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), a federal agency that manages the agricultural water supply within the basin, began paying farmers to pump large amounts of groundwater out of the aquifers below. Then came new conservation regulations and litigation that complicated USBR’s water obligations.
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Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).
Vermont Law
DECEMBER 8, 2017
With President Donald Trump in the White House, his administration has taken measures to ensure that the construction of the wall is not sidetracked by environmental laws and regulations. It includes NEPA, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and CERCLA, to name but a few.
ESA
DECEMBER 6, 2021
3277 ) to codify a Trump administration regulation that limited states’ ability to block fossil fuel projects under the Clean Water Act. USFWS and NOAA NMFS – Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Regulations for Listing Endangered and Threatened Species and Designating Critical Habitat.
ESA
JULY 26, 2021
The Trump administration finalized a rule exempting the Tongass National Forest from the 2001 Roadless Rule in late 2020, opening over 9 million acres to logging and road construction. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing removing 205,000 acres in Oregon from the species’ designated critical habitat. million acres. Instead, the U.S.
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