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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Circuit Ruled that EPA Must Consider Endangered Species in Setting Renewable Fuel Standards. Circuit Court of Appeals sent the 2018 Renewable Fuel Standards rule back to EPA after finding that EPA failed to comply with requirements of the Endangered Species Act.

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Trump’s Wall: Adios to Environmental Law?

Vermont Law

It includes NEPA, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and CERCLA, to name but a few. As well, the CBD argues that “expeditious construction” language in the statute requires barriers to be built as soon as possible after the law’s enactment, which has already elapsed under the 2008 deadline.

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May 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Columbia Climate Law

Montana Federal Court Vacated Nationwide Permit Due to Corps of Engineers Failure to Initiate Consultation Under Endangered Species Act. The court found that there was “resounding evidence” in the record that authorized discharges may affect endangered and threatened species and critical habitat and that the U.S.

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The Supreme Court’s Top-10 Environmental Law Decisions

Legal Planet

EPA lost all three of the biggest cases since 2008. 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. Hill, 437 U.S.

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July 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The federal district court for the District of Montana largely rejected challenges to federal approvals of revisions to the Flathead National Forest Land Management Plan in northwestern Montana but remanded without vacatur for additional analysis of certain issues under the Endangered Species Act. 52952-1-II (Wash.

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