ESA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The decision means that NSF opts not to rebuild the telescope dish at the Arecibo Observatory, which was destroyed in late 2020. This announcement is consistent with a provision in the CHIPS and Science Act which encourages NSF to strengthen and expand the role of Arecibo Observatory. from 12,549 in 2020 to 11,814 in 2021.

2022 40

2022 Endangered Species Act 2023 Clean Water Act 40

Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Aside from the constitutional issue, legislative intervention in a permitting action sets a precedent for direct political intervention in permit decisions. In 2020, EPA finalized a human health risk assessment for 1,4 dioxane that concluded 1,4 dioxane has adverse effects on humans and is a likely human carcinogen.

2023 52

2023 Clean Water Act Waste Law 52

ESA

APRIL 5, 2021

ESA and other scientific organizations endorsed a similar resolution from Duckworth, Hirono and Vice President Kamala Harris introduced during the 116 th Congress in April 2020. Fish and Wildlife credits wetland protections for helping stilt’s populations recover since the bird was first listed as endangered species in 1970.

2021 74

2021 Technology Technology Conservation 74

ESA

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

1002 ) preventing any position in the federal competitive service, created after September 30, 2020, from being reclassified outside of merit system principles without the express consent of Congress. in 2021 from 2020 levels when the country reported a record decrease in emissions, largely due to the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.

2023 40

2023 Clean Air Act 2019 Greenhouse 40

ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Fish and Wildlife Service receives $180 million for developing and carrying out Endangered Species Act recovery plans and a combined $19.4 Almost 90 countries joined an agreement to cut their methane emissions by 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels. The agency designated 563 river miles as critical habitat for the species.

2021 105

2021 Conservation Endangered Species Act Climate Change 105

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.

2001 246

2001 Conservation 2010 Government 246

ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

The Rural STEM Education Research Act ( H.R. House in September 2020. The MSI STEM Achievement Act ( H.R. The scientific community opposed this executive order, over concerns that this category could be used fire scientists whose results contradict the preferences of political employees. However, the U.S.

2021 52

2021 Clean Air Act Fossil Fuels 2026 52

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The court then found that BLM’s exclusion of foreign emissions in its alternatives analysis was arbitrary and capricious because its rationale “suffers from the same flaws the Ninth Circuit identified” in a December 2020 decision involving offshore drilling in the Beaufort Sea. CDV-2020-307 (Mont. State , No.

2021 40

2021 Endangered Species Act Climate Change Fossil Fuels 40

Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

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. The appellate court agreed with the court below that the lawsuit raised nonjusticiable political questions.

2021 42

2021 Fossil Fuels Endangered Species Act Climate Change 42

Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

On April 15, 2021, federal defendants, defendant-intervenors, and environmental groups filed a stipulation for dismissal of appeals of a district court’s November 2020 decision finding that the U.S. The federal defendants, the States of Wyoming and Utah, and several trade groups appealed the district court’s November 2020 decision.

2021 40

2021 Fossil Fuels Climate Change Endangered Species Act 40

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”

2020 40

2020 Fossil Fuels Climate Change Greenhouse 40