National Law Center

AUGUST 5, 2025

(CFIUS) Commodity Credit Corporation Department of Energy Department of Labor Environmental Protection Agency Farm Service Agency Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Fish and Wildlife Service Food and Drug Administration Food and Nutrition Service Food Safety and Inspection Service Foreign Agricultural Service Forest (..)

2013

National Law Center

AUGUST 1, 2025

Farmland July 11 – Stuttgart Daily Leader – NALC’s Pittman discusses foreign investments in U.S. land on C-SPAN July 12 – Newton County Times – Legal experts to explore Western water markets during NALC webinar July 12 – Jonesboro Sun – NALC’s Pittman discusses foreign investments in U.S.

2013

National Law Center

JULY 31, 2025

(CFIUS) Commodity Credit Corporation Department of Energy Department of Labor Environmental Protection Agency Farm Service Agency Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Fish and Wildlife Service Food and Drug Administration Food and Nutrition Service Food Safety and Inspection Service Foreign Agricultural Service Forest (..)

2013

Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2024

My own priorities are public health, climate change, and preservation of biodiversity/ecosystems. NEPA remains the workhorse of natural resource litigation today. Clean Air Act. Endangered Species Act (ESA ). Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA).

Law

Columbia Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and NOAA Marine Fisheries (NMFS) issued a sweeping proposal to amend key provisions of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), including provisions pertaining to listing decisions, critical habitat designations, and interagency consultations. By Jessica Wentz. In July, the U.S.

Endangered Species Act

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 25, 2022

Ontario Court of Appeals decision upholds vital habitat protection provision under province’s Endangered Species Act. Ecojustice, acting on behalf of Environmental Defence and Ontario Nature, intervened in the case. Toronto, Ont./ No such exceptions were sought by the Town in this case. Ecojustice?uses

Endangered Species Act

Washington Nature

JANUARY 10, 2022

Protecting Natural and Working Lands In the past two decades, more than a million acres of open space — forests, farmland, ranches and urban tree canopy — have been converted to other uses, damaging fish and wildlife habitat, diminishing our ability to address climate change and negatively impacting human health.

2022

The Energy Law

MAY 24, 2023

The plaintiffs’ arguments centered mostly on the project’s impact on an endangered species, the North Atlantic right whale. BOEM approved the Construction and Operations Plan for the Vineyard Wind Project in July 2021, approximately 12 years after BOEM began evaluating the site for wind energy development.

Endangered Species Act

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

By Jessica Wentz, The IPBES Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (2019) estimated that approximately one million species are currently at risk of extinction, with climate change being a major driver of accelerating extinction risk.

Endangered Species Act

Acoel

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Other states grant the authority to control the use of water to a state agency like a natural resource department. In addition, federal laws such as the Endangered Species Act have created federal claims for lake water to sustain threatened plants, animals and, most importantly, fish.

Endangered Species Act

Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

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. climate litigation charts. and non-U.S.

2017

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

Government

Legal Planet

JULY 27, 2024

Last week, Senator Manchin unveiled his latest permitting bill , negotiated with Senator Barrasso and set to be marked up by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on Wednesday. Another aspect of the statute of limitations provision would sew confusion and inadvertently lead to increased and unnecessary litigation.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

As domestic wells dried up this year, the emergency reignited passionate debates among residents over how to best protect the region’s limited natural resources. As domestic wells dried up this year, the emergency reignited passionate debates among residents over how to best protect the region’s limited natural resources.

2001

ESA

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Americans across the country are experiencing the impacts of climate change, from coastal flooding to decreased snowfall to drought and wildfire. Lucas has said his focus as chair will be oversight of the implementation of the Chips and Science Act that sets funding levels for NSF among other provisions in the bill. 15, 2022. .

2022

ESA

MARCH 20, 2023

States Texas State Board of Education issues guidance encouraging schools to emphasize the “positive” aspects of climate change in textbooks. Julia Brownley (D-CA) introduced the Marine Mammal Climate Change Protection Act ( H.R. Executive Branch White House approves Willow oil project in Alaska.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

2773 ) is that the Senate bill funds the program through penalties paid for natural resources and environmental violations while the House bill does not specify a funding source. Previous versions of the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act funded conservation through royalties paid to the federal government for mineral extraction.

2021

ESA

MAY 31, 2023

Congress House Natural Resources Committee passes Save Our Sequoias Act and legislation to allow mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The summary from the Republican majority notes that this includes increases for high-priority initiatives and reduces funding for climate hubs and climate change research.

2023

Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Does anyone really imagine that this project’s greenhouse gas emissions would not adversely affect the habitat of polar bears, or other ice-dependent listed species? And there will certainly be more litigation. Forget about not needing Willow at the end of its 30-year life span. degrees Celsius of global warming.

Fossil Fuels

ESA

AUGUST 1, 2022

The initial list of societal challenges includes climate change and sustainability and inequitable access to education, opportunity or other services. This includes a $35 million increase for the Ecological Services for Endangered Species Act activities. The Coastal State Preparedness Act (H.R.

2022

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

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. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 149. With respect to climate change, the D.C.

2021

ESA

MARCH 14, 2022

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee advances nomination of Asmeret Asefaw Berhe to lead Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Nominations : The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted to advance the nomination of Asmeret Asefaw Berhe to lead the Department of Energy’s Office of Science.

2022

ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

Supreme Court to hear Clean Water Act case. UN seeks input about possible topics for the Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue. Research Policy: The House leadership unveiled the America COMPETES Act ( H.R. The NSF provisions of the America COMPETES Act creates a new NSF Directorate for Science and Engineering Solutions.

2022

ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Legislators provide $200 million to NOAA for weather, coasts, oceans and climate research, $100 million for NOAA competitive climate research grants and provides $100 million to NOAA for development and dissemination of climate science information products and services. Lawmakers also allocate $9.7 degrees Celsius.

2021

ESA

DECEMBER 5, 2022

5345 ) in the House of Representatives, which passed the House Natural Resources Committee last month. USFWS: Citing the impacts of white-nose syndrome on the species, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) finalized a rule listing the northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) as an endangered species.

2022

Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

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. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 107. and non-U.S.

2018

ESA

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Glenn Youngkin (R)’s nomination of former EPA administrator to natural resources post. The NSF provisions of the America COMPETES Act creates a new NSF Directorate for Science and Engineering Solutions. Department of Agriculture undersecretary for natural resources and the environment. International.

2022

ESA

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The House Natural Resource Committee held a hearing for the House version of this bill ( H.R. Cliff Bentz (R-OR) introduced the Northern Spotted Owl Habitat Improvement Act ( H.R. million acres from the species’ critical habitat. Maryland AG Sues Monsanto, Alleges Harm to Natural Resources – Associated Press.

2021

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 11, 2017

A central question occupying environmental lawyers of all stripes is the degree to which the current federal administration, under the leadership of President Trump, his cabinet and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, will disrupt federal environmental and natural resources policies constructed over the past five decades.

Endangered Species Act

Acoel

JANUARY 21, 2025

The general thrust of these is to encourage the rapid development of fossil fuel resources and all associated infrastructure, and remove any regulatory obstacles; to reverse federal actions on climate change, energy efficiency, and environmental justice; and to prevent wind farms from being built on federal lands and waters.

Endangered Species Act

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Nor was it successful in stifling California’s own, multifaceted pollution control, climate change and public health initiatives. In hindsight, the Trump administration failed to do all that much long-term damage to the nation’s environment.

Endangered Species Act

ESA

MAY 15, 2023

Federal Register Apply for a Badge to Attend COP28 as an Observer via ESA ESA is accepting expressions of interest from members to receive an ESA “observer status” badge to attend the Conference of Parties (COP) 28 Climate Change Conference, which will take place from Nov. 12 at the Expo City Dubai, UAE. All Senate Republicans and Sen.

2023

ESA

APRIL 27, 2023

Pete Stauber (R-MN) introduced a Congressional Review Act resolution nullifying a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) rule listing the Northern Long-eared Bat as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. Previously, the bat species was listed as a threatened species.

2023

ESA

APRIL 18, 2023

Pete Stauber (R-MN) introduced a Congressional Review Act resolution nullifying a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) rule listing the Northern Long-eared Bat as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. Previously, the bat species was listed as a threatened species.

2023

ESA

APRIL 3, 2023

International UN General Assembly requests an advisory ruling from the International Court of Justice to clarify the legal obligations of countries to address climate change. Legislative Updates House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) and Sen. 1496 ) from Rep. 1705 and S.

2023

ESA

MARCH 6, 2023

Congress House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee votes to nullify Clean Water Act rule using the Congressional Review Act. Executive Branch USFWS proposes listing two populations of California spotted owl under the Endangered Species Act. States Washington state holds carbon allowance auction.

2023

ESA

JANUARY 23, 2023

In this issue: Congress House Republicans name new members and leadership for the House Appropriations Committee, House Science Committee and House Natural Resources Committee with the start of the 118th Congress. The new Republican members of the House Natural Resources Committee are Reps. rule in the courts.

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