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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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2011) ; Regehr et al. There is also research on the adverse effects of sea ice loss on seals and other ice-dependent species. 2003) (finding that NOAA’s defined “action area” was unreasonably narrow because it excluded areas where project impacts were “perhaps less direct but no less certain to occur”). 3 ; Laidre et al.