Enviromental Defense
JANUARY 26, 2024
Ontario’s (once) Promising Endangered Species Act Ontario was the first province in the country to pass an Endangered Species Act in 1971. Despite the leadership the province showed, the Act needed significant improvements to effectively protect species at risk. Where do we go from here?
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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Environmental Crimes
JUNE 29, 2018
On June 26, 2018, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued its opinion that reversed the trial court conviction of a Montana man who had been convicted under the criminal provisions of the Endangered Species Act for shooting and killing a grizzly bear. June 26, 2018). United States v. Charette , F.3d
Washington Nature
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
There were no environmental laws in the United States until Congress passed The Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Acts in the 1970s,” she said. In 2018, the delegation met in council with the Haudenosaunee Elders at Akwesasne, a town near the Canadian border in upstate New York.
The Energy Law Blog
JANUARY 24, 2018
Tammany Parish, Louisiana as “critical habitat” for the endangered dusky gopher frog. The FWS made this “critical habitat” designation under the Endangered Species Act. On January 22, 2018, the United States Supreme Court granted review of the Petitioner’s writ of certiorari in Weyerhaeuser Co.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Construction began in 2018 and was forecast to be completed within a year, but lawsuits contesting federal and state construction permits due to environmental impacts to forests, waterways, and wildlife slowed its construction. This brought the case to the U.S.
Enviromental Defense
MAY 2, 2022
Endangered species are the rarest and most vulnerable plants and animals.By the time a species is designated under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), it’s because its very existence in Ontario has been determined to be hanging by a thread.
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