ESA

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

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. Appropriations: Congress approved a measure to keep the government open through March 11. Seth Moulton (D-MA) introduced the Right Whale Coexistence Act ( S.

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ESA

AUGUST 30, 2021

In 2015, the Obama administration announced that it would ban chlorpyrifos, but former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt reversed that decision in 2017. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists, concluding that chlorpyrifos jeopardizes the survival over 1,200 endangered species. The proposed rule is open for public comment through Oct.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

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. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5

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ESA

JULY 26, 2021

This includes a 39% increase for climate research and a 29% increase for the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) reintroduced the House version of the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act ( H.R. Dingell and Fortenberry have also introduced similar legislation in 2017 and 2019.

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

The Trump administration proposed steep cuts across the government in its president’s budget request, especially to scientific and environmental programs. Even when Republicans controlled both the House and Senate in 2017 and 2018, Congress largely rejected these steep cuts. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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ESA

MAY 17, 2021

Many GSPA alumni pursue fellowships and careers in the federal government. The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved the Endless Frontiers Act ( S. The Committee also approved the American Fisheries Advisory Committee Act ( S. 1260 ) after lengthy debate and significant amendments.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in December 2017 and March 2018 because the environmental assessments for the lease sales failed to meet National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements, including by failing to take a hard look at cumulative climate change impacts. Greenpeace International , No. 17-cv-02824 (N.D.

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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. ,

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court held that federal common law necessarily governed the nuisance claims because “[a] patchwork of fifty different answers to the same fundamental global issue would be unworkable” and “the extent of any judicial relief should be uniform across our nation.” Connecticut ) and Ninth Circuit ( Native Village of Kivalina v.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

Bernhardt’s reasoning was that it would be impossible to establish the requisite causal link between GHG emissions, global climate change, and specific localized effects on species and their habitat due to the “complex and independent processes active in the atmosphere and the ocean acting on GHGs.” 2017) ; Lunn et al.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Ninth Circuit Said Biden Action Mooted Case Challenging Trump Revocation of Withdrawal of Oceans Lands from Oil and Gas Leasing. In both cases, the New York plaintiffs argue that the allocation of the summer flounder quota is based on obsolete data that does not reflect the fishery’s northeast shift, which may be due in part to ocean warming.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Last November, DOI’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”) held the largest offshore oil and gas lease sale in U.S. Haaland , a federal district court invalidated the sale on the ground that BOEM had violated the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”). under the Endangered Species Act).

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Chevron filed the third-party complaint in December 2017 against the company—of which the Norwegian State is majority stakeholder—for indemnity and contribution. One judge dissented, writing that the certificate of need was unsupported by substantial evidence and based on erroneous interpretations of the governing statute.

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