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How the Endangered Species Act is Helping to Restore the Klamath River Basin

Vermont Law

Ever increasing water use, and severe drought conditions, brought conflicts over water use to a head in the early 2000s when water conservation measures were taken in order to protect several fish listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Three KRB fish species are especially significant from an environmental perspective.

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

Law Columbia

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”). 2020) (“Indirect (and direct) effects are not constrained by the action area—they are the action area.”) Nat’l Marine Fisheries Serv. , 2d 1196, 1212 (D.