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ESA
JUNE 14, 2021
US Fish and Wildlife Service reverses Endangered Species Act rules. In addition, the agency expects to propose an updated rule governing the venting and flaring of methane pollution from onshore oil and gas leases in October but did not estimate when it would finish work on that regulation. Executive Branch.
ESA
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Appropriations: Congress approved a measure to keep the government open through March 11. President Biden signed the Further Additional Extending Government Funding Act ( H.R. The federal government has been operating under a continuing resolution since October 2021. 6617 ) Feb. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Rep. 3664 , H.R.
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ESA
APRIL 5, 2021
DOT halts Texas highway project in test of Biden’s promises on race. Members include Robert Bullard, a Texas Southern University professor often credited as the “father of environmental justice,” as well as scholars, advocates and representatives of environmental justice communities from across the country. What We’re Reading.
Law Columbia
JUNE 8, 2021
In three other cases brought by local and state governments against fossil fuel companies, the Supreme Court granted petitions for writ of certiorari seeking review of decisions affirming remand orders. The court also rejected claims under the National Forest Management Act, the Healthy Forest Restoration Act, and the Endangered Species Act.
ESA
JUNE 1, 2021
The Trump administration proposed steep cuts across the government in its president’s budget request, especially to scientific and environmental programs. Legislative updates: The House Oversight and Reform Committee approved the Preventing a Patronage System Act ( H.R Global Change Research Program since 2015. What to Save?
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). McCarthy , No. 5:14 -cv-39 (N.D.
Law Columbia
MARCH 6, 2018
The court held that federal common law necessarily governed the nuisance claims because “[a] patchwork of fifty different answers to the same fundamental global issue would be unworkable” and “the extent of any judicial relief should be uniform across our nation.” Connecticut ) and Ninth Circuit ( Native Village of Kivalina v.
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