Endangered Species Law

MARCH 3, 2023

On February 28, 2023, I published a post on the Center for California Water Resources Policy and Management’s DeltaCurrents blog discussing Species Status Assessments (SSAs) as a tool to facilitate implementation of the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA).

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Nanotech

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of final guidance to improve the efficiency of EPA’s Endangered Species Act (ESA) analyses for new pesticide active ingredient applications and active ingredients undergoing registration review. On September 14, 2023, the U.S.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Since the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, it has helped hundreds of species avoid extinction in the United States. Researchers have discovered that … Continue reading Endangered Species Act isn’t working well, study finds.

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Endangered Species Law

JUNE 17, 2021

The American Bar Association has published a newly revised edition of its tome Endangered Species Act: Law, Policy, and Perspective. The volume also covers related topics including state-level and international efforts to protect wildlife.

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Scientific American

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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Endangered Species Law

JULY 7, 2021

In an article published this week in California Fish and Wildlife , co-authors Stephanie Clark, Ashley Remillard and I provide an overview of the process of determining whether to list species as threatened or endangered, and thereby protect them, under the California Endangered Species Act (CESA).

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Endangered Species Law

MAY 12, 2021

Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) recently announced its finding that three salamander species do not warrant listing as endangered or threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). samweli ), and Wintu salamander ( H. wintu ).

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Endangered Species Law

JUNE 28, 2023

On June 22, 2023, the U.S.

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Scientific American

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

With too little … Continue reading Emperor penguins get Endangered Species Act protection – with 98% of colonies at risk of extinction by 2100, can it save them?

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MGKF Law

JANUARY 28, 2021

Fish and Wildlife Service ("FWS") and the National Marine Fisheries Service ("NMFS") (collectively, the "Services") finalized a rule defining the term "habitat" as used for designating "critical habitat" under the Endangered Species Act (the "ESA").

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Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Climate change is reducing the snowpack the mythic predators depend on for their dens, but resistance from resource extraction and recreation interests delayed Endangered Species Act protection. By Grant Stringer After decades of battles that spanned five U.S.

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Endangered Species Law

MAY 22, 2023

On Wednesday, May 17, 2023, the federal District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted summary judgment in favor of the United States Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”) and Vineyard Wind, and denied summary judgment to the plaintiffs in the case of Nantucket Residents Against Turbines v.

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Scientific American

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The Endangered Species Act requires that every U.S. plant and animal be saved from extinction, but after 50 years, we have to do much more to prevent a biodiversity crisis

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

MECP claims that these changes will improve implementation of the legislation, however, this is only true if you think better implementation of species protection legislation involves making it weaker. Ontario’s Endangered Species Act has been weakened throughout the years through policy changes, exemptions and poor implementation.

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Endangered Species Law

APRIL 11, 2024

Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) will publish its final rule updating regulations implementing section 10 of the Endangered Species Act (Section 10), which addresses the agency’s issuance of incidental take permits and enhancement of survival permits under Section 10. Tomorrow, the U.S.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 4, 2023

This post isn’t about the Oregon spotted frog or even about the Endangered Species Act as a whole. billion is a lot of money to spend on species recovery or whether it will be “worth it” to save the Oregon spotted frog. billion over 40 years. It’s not about whether $2.7

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National Law Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

On February 6, 2023, a federal judge in California issued a ruling concluding that the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”) preempted an. The post Judge Issues Ruling in Klamath River Dispute appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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Endangered Species Law

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) published a final rule listing a distinct population segment (DPS) of the North American wolverine ( Gulo gulo luscas ) as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The current listing is limited to the DPS of wolverine occurring in the contiguous United States.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Ever increasing water use, and severe drought conditions, brought conflicts over water use to a head in the early 2000s when water conservation measures were taken in order to protect several fish listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Three KRB fish species are especially significant from an environmental perspective.

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Endangered Species Law

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) proposed listing the oblong rocksnail ( Leptoxis compacta ) as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). On October 31, 2023, the U.S. The freshwater snail exists only in the Cahaba River in central Alabama and subsists on algae growing on the riverbed.

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Law and Environment

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Last month, Judge John Hunderaker held that the Endangered Species Act requires EPA to consult with the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service before issuing recommended water quality criteria. He also vacated EPA’s 2016 chronic freshwater criterion for cadmium.

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Nanotech

OCTOBER 16, 2023

TSCA/FIFRA/TRI EPA Releases Final Guidance For New Pesticide Applications And Registration Review Activities That Require Endangered Species Act Reviews: On September 14, 2023, the U.S.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 1, 2022

The California Fish and Game Commission had accepted petitions to list four species of native California bees for protection under the California Endangered Species Act (CESA). That was the question before the Third District of the California Court of Appeal.

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Endangered Species Law

MARCH 6, 2024

On March 5, 2024, the Center for Biological Diversity and several other groups submitted a petition to the California Fish and Game Commission (the Commission) to list the western burrowing owl ( Athene cunicularia hypugaea ) as endangered or threatened pursuant to the California Endangered Species Act.

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Endangered Species Law

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The Final Rule updates penalties for violations of the Endangered Species Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act, Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, Lacey Act, and other statutes concerning federally protected animal species. 2461 , as amended by the Inflation Adjustment.

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Endangered Species Law

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) failed to timely analyze the harmful effects of six pesticides on species listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and their habitats. District Court of Arizona, alleging the U.S.

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Endangered Species Law

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This January, the Department of the Interior and the Department of Commerce announced updated civil monetary penalties for violations of federal wildlife and natural resource protection laws including the Endangered Species Act (ESA), Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act (BGEPA), Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation (..)

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Endangered Species Law

MAY 23, 2023

Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) issued two mitigation policies: one titled “Mitigation Policy” and another titled “Endangered Species Act Compensatory Mitigation Policy.”

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Endangered Species Law

MARCH 13, 2023

jaegeriana ) as endangered or threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) is not warranted. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) issued its 12-month finding that listing Joshua trees ( Yucca brevifolia and Y.

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Endangered Species Law

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) issued a proposed rule to list two distinct population segments (DPSs) of the California spotted owl ( Strix occidentalis ) as endangered and threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

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Endangered Species Law

JANUARY 27, 2023

Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) proposed to designate approximately 104 river miles as critical habitat for the sickle darter ( Percina williamsi ) under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). On January 24, 2023, the U.S.

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Endangered Species Law

JANUARY 30, 2023

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a ruling holding that the United States Fish and Wildlife Service’s (Service) decision not to modify a recovery plan for the grizzly bear ( ursus arctos horrbilis ) was not a final agency action subject to review under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Pursuant to its.

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Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 19, 2023

Less than a week before the effective date of the uplisting of the northern long-eared bat from threatened to endangered under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. It is suggested that this uplisting is an example of the need to reform the Endangered Species Act. in more than half the country.

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Endangered Species Law

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The order , issued in the midst of a recent drought to meet the needs of irrigators, mandated Reclamation to “immediately preclude or.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

And now the government has a new proposal – and it’s terrible for endangered species. TELL ONTARIO NOT TO BY-PASS THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT . The provincial government has created a ‘pay-to-slay’ fund that allows developers to pay money rather than actually protecting endangered species.

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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.

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