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ESA Policy News: November 8, 2021

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Biden administration proposed repealing Trump administration Endangered Species Act regulations. University of Florida professors barred from testifying as experts in voting rights court case. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) have expressed concerns over the total price tag of the budget reconciliation bill.

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SCOTUS Further Defines Deliberative Process Documents Exempt From FOIA

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” On March 4, 2021, in United States Fish and Wildlife Service et al. 19-547, the Supreme Court of the United States held that draft biological opinions prepared by the U.S. Read More » Tags: Endangered Species Act , FOIA , Rulemaking. Sierra Club, Inc. ,

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

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The bill retains a provision from the House bill repealing section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021. What Sci-Hub’s latest court battle means for research – Nature.

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The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon. The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway.

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The Wenatchi people, part of 12 bands making up the Colville Tribes, spent decades battling in court to reclaim their legal right to fish for salmon in Icicle Creek. A 2021 study led by NOAA ecologist Lisa Crozier found that warming ocean temperatures could cause salmon survival to decline by roughly 90% within the next 40 years. “We

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