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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Six environmental groups launched the proceeding challenging the stay after EPA published notice of the stay in the June 5, 2017 issue of the Federal Register. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017). June 29, 2017). June 28, 2017). June 28, 2017). filed June 9, 2017).

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That Dam Case (Again):  Third District Upholds Oroville Hydropower Facilities Relicensing EIR Against Numerous CEQA Challenges

CEQA Developments

North Coast Railroad Authority (2017) 3 Cal.5th Holding and Analysis The Third District’s opinion in Butte IV is a thoroughgoing and straightforward examination of the Counties’ CEQA claims which broke down into four categories: climate change, historical hydrological conditions, water quality and beneficial use, and changes to the SWP.

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Pipeline Decisions Do Not Spell Doom for Transmission

Law Columbia

Forest Service, or other agency with jurisdiction over the land. The Corps issues nationwide permits for categories of similar activities that will have minimal environmental effects, both individually and cumulatively. The Corps issued NWP 12 in 1977, and most recently reissued NWP 12 in 2017. In April of this year, the U.S.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

The Ninth Circuit found that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) had acted reasonably based on best available scientific and commercial data when it relied on projections of loss of sea ice through the end of the century as the basis for its listing decision. Sentencing was scheduled for February 3, 2017. 15-P-905 (Mass.

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June 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) did not sufficiently explain why it reversed a previous determination that the Pacific walrus qualified for listing as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Forest Service took a hard look at the project’s probable environmental consequences. May 19, 2021).

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Policy News: February 28, 2022

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Fish and Wildlife Service. She previously worked as the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks director from 2017–2020 and was an assistant professor of law at the University of Montana. The Combatting Online Wildlife Trafficking Act ( H.R 1546 ), sponsored by Rep. 3540 ), from Rep.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

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Chuck” Sams III to be director of the National Park Service. Legislators provide $200 million to NOAA for weather, coasts, oceans and climate research, $100 million for NOAA competitive climate research grants and provides $100 million to NOAA for development and dissemination of climate science information products and services.

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