The Energy Law Blog
JULY 28, 2017
Property modifications, including altering the present timber management practices, could return the land to suitable frog habitat but the landowners do not intent to take these steps and the government concedes it cannot compel them to do so. In 2001, the USFWS listed the dusky gopher frog as an endangered species.
Vermont Law
FEBRUARY 3, 2014
The agency, overseen by APHIS (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service), regularly contradicts modern sensibilities about how animals should be treated, and maybe more importantly, how government should serve its citizens. In its call to action, the Center and its fellow petitioners presented reasonable solutions to the USDA’s black eye.
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The Energy Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 15, 2015
The government argued that any equipment used to separate oil should be considered an “oil-water separator” regardless of whether it contained all the ancillary equipment described in the definition. As a strict liability offense, the government does not need to prove that the defendant had a criminal intent.
Law Columbia
JULY 6, 2017
The federal government argued that denial of the motion to dismiss was based on clear error and that mandamus was warranted to confine the district court to the lawful exercise of its jurisdiction. Federal Government Moved to Dismiss Keystone Pipeline Challenges. filed June 13, 2017).
Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
Our analysis looked at drought responses within the upper Klamath Basin—an 8,000-square-mile ecological region that encompasses most of Klamath County and parts of northern California—and drew from interviews from dozens of sources, including scientists, agricultural groups, tribal representatives, conservation experts, and government officials.
Law Columbia
OCTOBER 7, 2019
Colorado Federal Court Remanded Local Governments’ Climate Case to State Court. The court said the defendants’ argument that the plaintiffs’ state law claims were governed by federal common law appeared to be a matter of ordinary preemption, which would not provide a basis for federal jurisdiction. Rhode Island v. Chevron Corp. ,
Law Columbia
JUNE 6, 2023
2012) ; Cal. This approach has been used to assess the responsibility of specific entities, such as national governments and carbon emitting companies, to climate change-related harms. But the ESA requires that the government conduct a scientific assessment before it reaches that conclusion. See Karuk Tribe of California v.
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