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Ocean Conservancy
AUGUST 19, 2022
This blog was written by Kirsten Williams, Summer 2022 Legal Intern for Ocean Conservancy. Her work focuses on climate change litigation, ocean law and policy, and renewable energy. . Critical habitat is habitat that is needed to support recovery of a listed species. This blog focuses on the North Pacific right whale.
Circle of Blue
JUNE 1, 2022
Hatcheries like the Carson National Fish Hatchery, pictured here, breed millions of salmon and let them grow until they are mature enough to be released so they can try to swim to the ocean. Nearly 250 million young salmon, most of them from hatcheries, head to the ocean each year — roughly three times as many as before any dams were built.
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HumanNature
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Polar bears were the first species to be listed under the Endangered Species Act proactively. That is, they were listed based on the preponderance of evidence supporting climate change and its effect on their sea ice habitat, and not because their numbers at the time of the 2008 listing were dire 1. 2 Molnár, P.
Law Columbia
OCTOBER 7, 2019
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.
Law Columbia
JUNE 6, 2023
BLM’s decision to exclude GHG emissions from its ESA jeopardy analysis can be traced back to a 2008 legal opinion for the Department of Interior (DOI) which declared that it is impossible to establish a causal connection between project-level emissions and harm to specific species and their habitats.
Columbia Climate Law
MAY 8, 2020
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.
Vermont Law
DECEMBER 8, 2017
of environmental laws and regulations that might apply to the construction of the wall in the San Diego Sector, which spans from the Pacific Ocean to one mile east of border monument 251, approximately 15 miles. It includes NEPA, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and CERCLA, to name but a few.
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