Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

If you’re an anti-regulatory conservative, you’d probably flip these designations. This was a case under the Endangered Species Act. The Supreme Court interpreted the statute to place an absolute priority on preserving endangered species, regardless of the impact on the economy or other government goals.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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Acoel

JANUARY 20, 2022

While these canids officially count as coyotes – a nettlesome varmint to many Texans – their spectral appearance has sparked local excitement because the wild dogs contain a genetic shadow of their endangered forebears who disappeared from the Gulf Coast long ago. Red Wolf ( Canis rufus ) Historic Range.

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Acoel

AUGUST 15, 2023

Factors such as climate change and invasive species have caused ecosystems, once suitable for these species, to no longer be acceptable or sustainable. The 1982 amendments to the Endangered Species Act added a section, 10(j), to facilitate reintroduction of listed species via designation of “experimental populations.”

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In addition, the Cook Inlet distinct population segment has been listed as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. The largest threat to Arctic species is climate change, affecting both their habitat and the food they eat. The Arctic is heating up fast.

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Washington Nature

JANUARY 10, 2022

Conservancy forester Kyle Smith takes measurements in the old-growth forest at TNC’s Ellsworth Creek Preserve in southwest Washington. Washington’s Conservation Futures program has allowed counties to permanently protect open space, farmland and forests, and to build and maintain parks and trails. Photo by Chris Crisman.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 21, 2018

However, the Animal Welfare Act has. exceptions to the Endangered Species Act. can permit private ownership and hunting of listed species. hunting regulations can be circumvented by classifying species as livestock rather than wild animals. limited power in private game reserves. ,

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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. This regulatory scheme could be undercut unless the intrastate activity is regulated.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

But in the rogue EPA that is the Supreme Court, packed to an ultra-conservative majority by presidents with little or no concern for the environment, science and the fatal toll of pollution seem to take a back seat to concerns about the unfettered freedom of polluters to profit regardless of their harmful business practices.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 2, 2016

The study which is being requested as part of this bill may help determine whether or not trophy hunting actually benefits endangered species conservation. After Cecil the Lion was killed last summer, the Conserving Ecosystems by Ceasing the Importation of Large Animal Trophies Act (H.R. the CECIL Act.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

For the past four centuries, legal criteria to regulate the environment and satisfy diverse interests have emerged as part of the environmental movement. As such, the Center is calling for regulations requiring the use of the best available science and technology when implementing wildlife control. appeared first on.

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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).

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 2, 2022

By Environmental Defence’s count, the last several years have witnessed over 10 major changes to laws, regulations and policies that have rolled back protection for nature and wildlife in Ontario. Endangered species are the rarest and most vulnerable plants and animals.By REDUCING THE ROLE OF CONSERVATION AUTHORITIES.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

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 court ordered EPA to file a plan and schedule for compliance within 14 days.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit concluded that EPA had acted arbitrarily and capriciously in determining that the four elements of the regulations that had been stayed met these requirements. Environmental Groups Challenged Delay in Enforcement of Landfill Methane Regulations. 16-1-01001-5 (Wash. verdict June 7, 2017; sentencing June 23, 2017).

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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.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Conservation: The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing for the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act ( S. billion annually to state and tribal fish and wildlife agencies for conservation and the implementation of state wildlife action plans. Federal Register opportunities. This bill provides a combined $1.4

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 5, 2023

at the level of an individual animal) contradicts both the conservation purpose of the ESA and the plain meaning of what qualifies as a “reasonably certain” effect. As noted above, the ESA regulations require federal agencies to consider any effects that are “reasonably certain to occur” as a result of the action.

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ESA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Senate considering annual defense policy bill, which includes authorizes funding for tropical forest and coral reef conservation. Rob Portman (R-OH) reauthorizes the Tropical Forest and Coral Reef Act through FY 2027 and authorizes $20 million a year for the program. Executive Branch. President Biden designates a new national monument.

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Law and Environment

JUNE 24, 2022

This week, the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a rule rescinding the rule issued in 2020 defining “habitat” for the purposes of determining what constitutes “critical habitat” under the Endangered Species Act. This came to a head in 2018 in Weyerhaeuser v. (i)

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Legal Planet

JULY 6, 2023

State Regulation. Otherwise would like to regulate but will need help. Conservative states might be reluctant to regulate. One strategy would be to issue a new regulation interpreting Sackett to leave as much scope for regulation as possible. Wetland conservation programs.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Three tightly-interconnected decisions make up the Supreme Court’s constitutional doctrine governing the permissibility of “regulatory exactions”—conditions a land use regulation authority imposes in a land development permit as a purported quid-pro-quo for permit issuance. Johns Water Management District. The form of. 825 (1987).

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ESA

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

USFWS: The agency granted threatened species protections for the Emperor Penguin ( Aptenodytes forsteri ) under the Endangered Species Act. The Emperor Penguin is native to Antarctica and is the world’s tallest and heaviest penguin species. Questions will be taken in advance. .

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2023

Greg Vitali Named Majority Chair Of House Environmental Committee; House Appoints Committee Members [PaEN] -- DCNR State Parks Environmental Education Update - Vernal Equinox Edition [PaEN] -- Reminder: Penn State Extension Hosts 4-Part Educator Training Course: Carbon Incentives For Forest Owners Starting March 8 [PaEN] -- Brodhead Chapter Trout Unlimited (..)

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Acoel

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Hill , although both the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”) and the Snail Darter managed to survive that showdown. Conservationists sued, arguing that the BiOP did not comply with the ESA and Marine Mammal Protection Act (“MMPA”), and that the first phase of the Framework was insufficiently protective.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Here are 35 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

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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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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 8, 2017

With President Donald Trump in the White House, his administration has taken measures to ensure that the construction of the wall is not sidetracked by environmental laws and regulations. It includes NEPA, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and CERCLA, to name but a few.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit found that FERC failed to address the significance of a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulation that the petitioners argued required use of the social cost of carbon or another methodology to assess the impacts of the projects’ greenhouse gas emissions. The states appealed the dismissal of the case. Missouri v.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision that vacated the listing of the Arctic ringed seal as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Federal Court Dismissed Challenge to Executive Order on Reducing Regulation. Ninth Circuit Reinstated Listing of Arctic Ringed Seals as Threatened.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Montana Federal Court Vacated Nationwide Permit Due to Corps of Engineers Failure to Initiate Consultation Under Endangered Species Act. The court found that there was “resounding evidence” in the record that authorized discharges may affect endangered and threatened species and critical habitat and that the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

A federal judge overturns the Trump administration’s Clean Water Act definition. Bureau of Reclamation contributes $19 million for a Colorado River water conservation program. Fish and Wildlife Service proposes removing a notorious species from the threatened list. Before the EPA could act, a federal judge stepped in.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

Industrial wind developers need the transmission line to expand their turbines across the fragile Sand Hills ecosystem; In May of this year, Ohio regulators demanded wildlife protections for endangered migratory bird species, including the Kirtland’s warbler, for an industrial wind project proposed for Lake Erie.

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ESA

AUGUST 30, 2021

New Mexico governor signs executive order creating a “30 by 30” conservation committee. Additionally, USFWS is proposing listing Texas fawnsfoot ( Truncilla macrodon ) as a threatened species. The agency attributes the species status to declining water quality and quantity. “Chuck” Sams to lead the National Park Service.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2024

With 2024 Lifetime Conservation Leadership Award [PaEN] -- Delaware Highlands Conservancy Holds 30th Anniversary Foods Of The Delaware Highlands Event May 4 [PaEN] -- WVIA: Bernie McGurl, Lackawanna River Conservation Assn. - Schiffman, Esq.

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ESA

MAY 4, 2023

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). NOAA NMFS – Proposed Rule To List the Sunflower Sea Star as Threatened Under the Endangered Species Act.

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