Enviromental Defense
MARCH 11, 2022
Ontario court examines key habitat protection provisions under province’s Endangered Species Act. Half of monitored wildlife species in Canada (451 of 903) declined in abundance from 1970 to 2014. There is still time to stop at-risk species from vanishing forever — but not very much. Toronto, Ont./
The Energy Law Blog
JULY 21, 2016
In 2010, under the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”), the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (“the FWS”) designated 6,477 acres in Mississippi and Louisiana as “critical habitat” for the Rana sevosa or the dusky gopher frog. On August 22, 2014, District Judge Martin L.C. Tammany Parish.
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The Energy Law Blog
JULY 28, 2017
The USFWS’ critical habitat designation was upheld by Judge Feldman in the Eastern District of Louisiana in 2014, affirmed by a 2-1 decision in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2016, and denied an en banc rehearing by an 8-6 vote of the Fifth Circuit in February 2017. The Endangered Species Act (16 U.S.C.
Law Columbia
JULY 6, 2017
The court agreed with the magistrate’s conclusion that the plaintiffs failed to state a claim for violation of a nondiscretionary duty under the Endangered Species Act and that the court therefore lacked jurisdiction. The proposed project involves construction of three new water intakes to divert water from the Sacramento River.
Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
That’s because the region’s ongoing groundwater woes are at least two decades in the making, exacerbated in part by the very federal programs meant to conserve water in the area, The Counter has found. Then came new conservation regulations and litigation that complicated USBR’s water obligations.
Law Columbia
OCTOBER 7, 2019
Circuit Ruled that EPA Must Consider Endangered Species in Setting Renewable Fuel Standards. Circuit Court of Appeals sent the 2018 Renewable Fuel Standards rule back to EPA after finding that EPA failed to comply with requirements of the Endangered Species Act. Conservation Law Foundation v.
Circle of Blue
JUNE 1, 2022
Fish and Wildlife Service and the Northwest Power and Conservation Council — have failed to implement recommendations from their own scientists about how to improve outcomes at the hatcheries they support. That hatchery, one of 23 facilities overseen by the Northwest Power and Conservation Council, opened in 2013.
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