Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Project 2025 portrays the Fish & Wildlife Service as “the work of the Fish and Wildlife Service is the product of ‘species cartels’ afflicted with group think, confirmation bias, and a common desire to preserve the prestige, power, and appropriations of the agency that pays or employs them.” Download as PDF

2025

Vermont Law

MAY 14, 2025

On the Chopping Block: Trump Administration Moves to Rescind ESA Regulations Protecting Imperiled Species By Delcianna J. Supreme Court heralded the Endangered Species Act (ESA or Act) as the most comprehensive legislation for the preservation of endangered species enacted by any nation.

Regulations

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Given the crises facing other components of DOJ and departments across the federal government, the consequences of this crisis have largely been crowded out of the news cycle. And in the first Trump administration, ENRD defended the constitutionality of the Endangered Species Act. Nonpartisanship is disloyalty.

Natural Resources

Legal Planet

JANUARY 10, 2025

But mechanical thinning is costly, and those who do not trust the Forest Service (or other government agencies) to use good faith and judgment in when to use thinning fear it is a cover for reintroducing massive commercial logging from decades ago, logging that made fire risks worse.

Endangered Species Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 15, 2025

In the decision-making process of many government agencies, expert panels and advisory committees serve this critical function of analyzing existing evidence. The first Trump administration, in some cases, blocked scientists ability to do this by, for instance, removing a term such as climate change from certain government communications.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

A related Executive Order directed federal water projects to ignore legal protections like the endangered species act and water quality standards in order to pump more water South. In red and blue states alike, people expect government to continue to provide essential services like safe and affordable drinking water.

Politics

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The groups priorities extend from public lands management and wildfire prevention to reforms of the Endangered Species Act and federal environmental reviews that would allow for more mining, drilling, and building. government water policy. By traditional energy, Lummis means fossil fuels.

Endangered Species Act

National Law Center

JUNE 10, 2025

The term “final agency action” comes from the Administrative Procedure Act, the federal law that governs agency procedure, and is defined as an agency action that is “made reviewable by statute” or “for which there is no other adequate remedy” other than in a court of law. 5 U.S.C. § The plaintiff in CTM Holdings, LLC v.

2013

Legal Planet

APRIL 23, 2025

The administration has proposed revoking the definition of harm in the regulations implementing Section 9 of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Section 9 is the section of the ESA that prohibits taking a member of a listed species. Some initial thoughts on the implications of the proposal.

Endangered Species Act

Circle of Blue

JULY 8, 2025

The return of salmon to the upper Klamath River represents a victory for nature, an exhibition of the century-long transition in how Americans view the environment, and a signal achievement of the 1973 Endangered Species Act. Manifest destiny had hung up its boots. ” Before 2024, experts at the U.S

Endangered Species Act

Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2025

Interior cites three sources of emergency authority to support its new procedures, including existing regulations issued under (1) the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), (2) the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and (3) the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA).

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 17, 2025

Phil Pothen, Ontario Environment program manager: Bill 5 would repeal Ontario’s Endangered Species Act, 2007 , marking the end of most meaningful provincial protections for endangered, threatened and special concern species in Ontario. by killing homegrown renewable energy.

Clean Energy

National Law Center

JULY 24, 2025

The new law includes several provisions typically associated with the Farm Bill, the omnibus spending bill that governs various agricultural and food programs in the United States. The OBBBA includes provisions related to agricultural commodity programs, nutrition programs, tax policies, and conservation programs.

2013

PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2025

Here are 121 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.

Conservation

Legal Planet

MAY 13, 2025

Indeed, the Labour government has been engaged in a very similar permitting reform debate to the one raging in the United States, but it is more advanced at the government level. The Labour government made big promises during the election campaign to build 1.5 Americans can learn from their experience.

Environmental Protection

Legal Planet

APRIL 28, 2025

The government also froze funding that was already due for clean energy projects and scientific research relating to climate change. In an extraordinary move, the government even froze the bank accounts of green banks that had already received money from the government, with little or no effort to provide a legal justification.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2025

The Trump administration has taken actions that endanger our parks, wildlife, and public lands: The Clean Power Plan rollback increases pollution and climate change risks. The Endangered Species Act has been weakened, removing protections for at-risk species.

Endangered Species Act

Acoel

DECEMBER 17, 2024

I thought maybe it is true that the voters get the government they deserve. In 1971 the Clean Air Act was passed and Nixon signed it. In 1972 the Clean Water Act was passed and Nixon signed it. In 1973 the Endangered Species Act was passed and Nixon signed it. Until yesterday.

Endangered Species Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 7, 2025

In the most recent report to Congress last year, the Interior Department and its United States Fish and Wildlife Service said wetlands are vital to up to half of bird species found in North America, more than 80% of threatened and endangered birds and about half of all the animals and plants covered under the Endangered Species Act.

Endangered Species Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 28, 2025

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is among the foundational environmental protection laws in the United States, and it is under unprecedented attack from the Trump Administration. And if the idea of environmental protection was new, the concepts of government transparency and public input were downright radical.

Endangered Species Act

Legal Planet

APRIL 23, 2025

The proposal has been revised to make it more legally palatable, including moving the final decision-making authority regarding the conversion of jobs to the president, rather than the OPM director, writes Government Executive. ” No, climate science isnt making our kids more anxious. CBD plans to sue. the Financial Times reports.

Earth Day

National Law Center

JULY 21, 2025

It has been informally referred to as the “ One Big Beautiful Bill Act ,” or “OBBBA.” Currently, the federal government pays fully for the cost of SNAP benefits, and the USDA and states split the costs of administering the program.

2013

Law Columbia

JANUARY 21, 2025

404, Rivers and Harbors Act Sec. 10, and Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act Sec. 404, Rivers and Harbors Act Sec. 10, and Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act Sec. 404, Rivers and Harbors Act Sec. 10, and Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act Sec.

Endangered Species Act

Legal Planet

JULY 31, 2025

EO 14151: Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing (eliminating all environmental justice programs and offices) EO 14148: Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions (repealing Biden executive orders, including those relating to climate change and environmental justice).

Endangered Species Act

National Law Center

AUGUST 5, 2025

Further, the FDA may conduct inspections on its own, it also has a program for contracting with state and territorial government regulatory agencies. Currently, the FDA has 48 contracts with state and territorial government regulatory agencies. Specifically, 43 states and Puerto Rico have been awarded contracts. food supply.

2013

National Law Center

JULY 17, 2025

It prohibits standards or requirements that are “in addition to” or “different from” those imposed by the federal government. There are no federal requirements governing the living space required for laying hens. This section has two express preemptions, one focusing on federal standards, and the other on labeling.

Law

National Law Center

JULY 1, 2025

Nevertheless, many states are influenced by the federal government. The new change allows the Oklahoma government to continue keeping records of cottage foods sold in case of food safety issues while also protecting cottage food operations’ personal information from the general public. Particularly, the U.S.

Law

National Law Center

JULY 31, 2025

While there are approximately twenty-eight states that specifically prohibit or limit foreign ownership of agricultural land within the boundaries of their state, the federal government only monitors certain foreign acquisitions and landholdings in agricultural land through the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act (“AFIDA”) of 1978.

2013

National Law Center

JULY 8, 2025

SB 17 prohibits governments and individuals who are citizens of or domiciled in a “designated country” from purchasing or acquiring any interest – including leasehold interests of less than one year – in real property located in Texas. SB 17 is set to go into effect on September 1, 2025.

Law

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. For example, the Redside Dace and Butternut are just two of many species at risk that would be impacted by the proposed giant Highway 413.

Government

Legal Planet

AUGUST 25, 2022

If you do corporate work, you can focus on ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance). Or you can work for the government — for instance, as someone who prosecutes environmental crimes. There are a lot of rules governing land development, not all of them embodied in zoning laws. Social Justice Lawyering.

Law

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.

Endangered Species Act

Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

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. American Trucking Associations. This case is a century older.

Clean Air Act

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Endangered Species Act. is “the most comprehensive legislation for the preservation of endangered species ever enacted by any nation” according to the United States Supreme Court in the landmark case. makes it harder to list endangered species and easier to delist them. government. second bill.

Endangered Species Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2023

NOAA is a science-based agency of the federal government that was created by the executive branch in 1970, bringing together science-based commissions, bureaus and offices the country relied on for years, including what was known as the Weather Bureau, the Fisheries Commission, and the Survey of the Coast office. In 1977, Rep.

Endangered Species Act

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

But, throughout their term of office, the current government has done everything in their power to remove or avoid those protections. 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 .

Endangered Species Act

Enviromental Defense

MAY 23, 2024

Ontario’s Endangered Species Act (ESA) is meant to protect and recover species-at-risk and their habitats, but does it work? the quarry proposal should be rejected if the spirit of the law is upheld given that at least 63% and at most 100% of the proposed quarry area is categorized as endangered species habitat.”

Endangered Species Act