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“Fully Protected” No More?

Legal Planet

Because trailer bills don’t go through the typical legislative process, they have much less public exposure, meaning that in practice, trailer bills can be—and are—used as a vehicle to make big changes with minimal process. Now back to this year’s “Fully Protected Species Trailer Bill.”

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A Resource Guide for Fish-Friendly Infrastructure Funding

Washington Nature

Written by Braeden Van Deynze, UW Postdoctoral Research Associate; Ailene Ettinger, Quantitative Ecologist at TNC in Washington; and Tiffany Choe, Public Funding Strategy Manager at TNC in Washington. Photo by Zoe van Duivenbode / The Nature Conservancy. Scoring criteria are broken down into two categories: qualitative and technical.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Circuit further concluded that Section 307(d)(7)(B) expressly linked EPA’s power to stay to regulatory provisions meeting the requirements for “mandatory reconsideration”—that it was “impracticable to raise” an objection during the public comment period and that the objection was “of central relevance to the outcome of the rule.”

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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). Sierra Club v. United States Department of Energy , No. 16-1186 (D.C.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The federal district court for the Northern District of California denied Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change public nuisance lawsuits against five major fossil fuel producers to state court. Public Citizen, Inc. Connecticut ; Requested “Tutorial” on Climate Change. Trump , No. 1:17 -cv-00253 (D.D.C.

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ESA Policy News: May 4, 2023

ESA

Rothman (University of Maryland), Veronica Manka’a Tangiri (Prince William Soil and Water Conservation District, Lund University), Aubrey Tingler (University of Maryland) and Tatjana Washington (University of Chicago). EPA: The agency is now seeking public comment regarding its Draft National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution.

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June 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

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. Conservation Congress v. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals denied a motion to stay a U.S. May 17, 2021).

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