Vermont Law
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Ever increasing water use, and severe drought conditions, brought conflicts over water use to a head in the early 2000s when water conservation measures were taken in order to protect several fish listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Three KRB fish species are especially significant from an environmental perspective.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Construction began in 2018 and was forecast to be completed within a year, but lawsuits contesting federal and state construction permits due to environmental impacts to forests, waterways, and wildlife slowed its construction. It is in these regulatory processes that we at V-SCI found numerous opportunities to contribute.
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Law Columbia
DECEMBER 5, 2023
2018) ; Tartu et al. 2018) ; Aars et al. There is also research on the adverse effects of sea ice loss on seals and other ice-dependent species. 2020) (“Indirect (and direct) effects are not constrained by the action area—they are the action area.”) See, e.g., IPCC AR6 WGI Ch.3 3 ; Laidre et al. Walsh , 467 F.
Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
In the 1980s and ‘90s, three salmon and suckerfish species that call the Klamath Basin home were listed under the Endangered Species Act, a move that required USBR to limit surface water for farming during droughts to protect the fishes’ habitats. Still, USBR continued to fund groundwater pumping.
Law and Environment
JUNE 24, 2022
This week, the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a rule rescinding the rule issued in 2020 defining “habitat” for the purposes of determining what constitutes “critical habitat” under the Endangered Species Act. This came to a head in 2018 in Weyerhaeuser v.
Columbia Climate Law
MAY 8, 2020
Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2018 rule in which EPA decided to expand the D.C. EPA’s 2018 rule also suspended the prohibition for companies currently using ozone-depleting substances. In ruling on the challenge to the 2018 rule, the D.C. The court also rejected the contention that the 2018 rule was not final action.
ESA
JANUARY 18, 2022
Judge orders USFWS to reconsider 2019 decision to not list the Yellowstone bison under the Endangered Species Act. A draft of IPBES’ thematic assessment of invasive alien species and their control is open for review. Executive Branch. White House releases scientific integrity report. International.
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