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Policy News: May 9, 2022

ESA

BLM: The Interior Department reverted to a 2013 management plan for Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve. In December 2020, USFWS made a determination that listing the monarch butterfly under the Endangered Species Act is “warranted but precluded.”.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) acted arbitrarily and capriciously when it designated the northern long-eared bat as “threatened” rather than “endangered” under the Endangered Species Act. The act for which they were incriminated was a necessary and proportional means to achieve the goal they sought.”

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