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Climate Attribution and the Willow Project: Federal Obligations to Evaluate the Effects of Fossil Fuel Leasing on Endangered Species

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The Sabin Center submitted an amicus brief supporting this claim and explaining how climate change attribution and detection research can be used to assess the effect of project-level emissions on sea ice declines within the habitat ranges of these species. Decision at 101-102.) See Nat’l Wildlife Fed’n v. 2d 1196, 1212 (D.

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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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While salmon runs fluctuate from year to year and this year’s returns have been higher than those of the past few years, human-caused climate change continues to warm the ocean and rivers, and the failure to improve salmon survival rates has left the region’s tribes facing a future without either wild or hatchery fish. “Our

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