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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A threatened species is one that is “likely to become an endangered species within the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range.”

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. June 29, 2017). Pruitt , No.

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The Dusky Gopher Frog Lives to Fight Another Day: Fifth Circuit Denies Rehearing

The Energy Law Blog

On February 13, 2017, the U.S. The Defendants, who are timber and commercial developers, requested that the Court rehear the June 30, 2016 panel majority opinion that upheld the District Court’s ruling that the Fish and Wildlife Service’s designation of 1,500 acres of private land in St. Fish and Wildlife Service, et al.

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Gray Wolf conservation in the Northern Rockies: Can we protect wolves and ranchers?

Vermont Law

By David Jennings, 1L Student, Vermont Law School. gray wolves (Canis lupus) under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), which gave them federal protection from hunting, killing, and otherwise harassing. wolf hunting in Wyoming resumed in October 2017. Under the ESA, a species is considered endangered if it is “.

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Climate Attribution and the Willow Project: Federal Obligations to Evaluate the Effects of Fossil Fuel Leasing on Endangered Species

Law Columbia

The Sabin Center submitted an amicus brief supporting this claim and explaining how climate change attribution and detection research can be used to assess the effect of project-level emissions on sea ice declines within the habitat ranges of these species. 2017) ; Lunn et al. 2016) ; Derocher et al. 2017) ; Laidre et al.

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Dusky Gopher Frog’s Louisiana Critical Habitat Spawns U.S. Supreme Court Writ

The Energy Law Blog

The USFWS’ critical habitat designation was upheld by Judge Feldman in the Eastern District of Louisiana in 2014, affirmed by a 2-1 decision in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2016, and denied an en banc rehearing by an 8-6 vote of the Fifth Circuit in February 2017. The Endangered Species Act (16 U.S.C.

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Using Attribution Science to Evaluate the Effects of Oil and Gas Emissions on Endangered and Threatened Species

Law Columbia

2017) ; Lunn et al. 2016) ; Derocher et al. There is also research on the adverse effects of sea ice loss on seals and other ice-dependent species. 2017) ; Laidre et al. Environmental organizations and an indigenous group filed two lawsuits challenging BLM’s decision to move forward with the Willow project.