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Now You’re in Law School. What Should You Take?

Legal Planet

If you become an IP lawyer, there’s work to be done on clean energy technologies. One important area for work involves the energy sector. Clean energy has been growing rapidly, and Congress recently poured $379 billion more into cleaning up our energy system. Social Justice Lawyering.

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CRES Forum Hosts Permitting Reform Panel Discussion

Cresforum

The discussion touched on the challenges that exist for developers and the opportunities for improvement throughout various statutes, like the Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act, as well as at implementing agencies and the courts.

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Kate Janeway: Employee #10 at TNC in Washington leaves the board and a legacy of environmental service

Washington Nature

There were no environmental laws in the United States until Congress passed The Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Acts in the 1970s,” she said. Leading up to the position, Kate had practiced environmental law but found herself looking for something different.

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Pipeline Decisions Do Not Spell Doom for Transmission

Law Columbia

District Court for the District of Montana vacated NWP 12, concluding that the Corps acted arbitrarily and capriciously by issuing the permit in 2017 without consulting the Fish and Wildlife Service or the National Marine Fisheries Service, as required by the Endangered Species Act.

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Mountain Valley Pipeline: Science, Community Activism, and the Fight to Preserve Scientist voices

Union of Concerned Scientists

Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in Virginia stopped construction again , raising the question of whether the FRA was Constitutional, and challenging that the move violated the Endangered Species Act. This brought the case to the U.S.

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PA Assn. Of Environmental Professionals Announce 2023 Scholarship Winners

PA Environment Daily

Her efforts directly assisted with the conservation and recovery of this species under the Endangered Species Act. Fish and Wildlife Service where she contributes to data management and field surveys for the threatened Yellow-Billed Cuckoo in Tucson, Arizona.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision that vacated the listing of the Beringia distinct population segment (DPS) of the Pacific bearded seal subspecies as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The plaintiffs charged that the U.S.

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