Endangered Species Law

JANUARY 7, 2025

Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announced that, following the completion of the Service’s 5-year status review (5-year Review) of the golden-cheeked warbler ( Setophaga chrysopharia ) (GCWA), the agency is recommending the species be downlisted from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

Endangered Species Act

Endangered Species Law

APRIL 17, 2025

Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (collectively, Services) published a notice in the Federal Register proposing to rescind the Services’ respective definitions of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) (Proposed Rule).

Endangered Species Act

Endangered Species Law

JANUARY 17, 2025

The decision comes on the heels of the agency’s recent recommendation to downlist the GCWA from endangered to threatened. Fish & Wildlife Service (Service) will publish a positive 90-day finding on a 2016 petition (Petition) to delist the golden-cheeked warbler ( Setophaga chrysoparia ) (GCWA).

Endangered Species Act

Endangered Species Law

APRIL 9, 2025

” The federal Endangered Species Act deals with a different type of “taking.” ” Section 9 of the Endangered Species Act generally prohibits any person from “taking” any species of fish or wildlife listed as endangered. 16 U.S.C § 1538.

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Endangered Species Law

JULY 18, 2025

Fish & Wildlife Service (Service) to reevaluate its decision not to list two species of Joshua tree— Yucca brevifolia (western Joshua tree) and Yucca jaegeriana (eastern Joshua tree)—as “threatened” under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA).

Endangered Species Act

National Law Center

JULY 29, 2025

Additionally, the Supreme Court found that when considering whether an agency’s NEPA report complies with the law, reviewing courts should grant “substantial deference” to the agency. National Environmental Policy Act NEPA was signed into law on January 1, 1970.

2013

Endangered Species Law

JULY 24, 2025

House of Representatives is considering a number of bills regarding wildlife, including bills to reauthorize the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA). Below is a summary of the Committee’s efforts: ESA Reauthorization: Committee Chair Westerman (R-Arkansas) is the lead sponsor of H.R.

Endangered Species Act

National Law Center

OCTOBER 10, 2024

On September 25, 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) released its Vulnerable Species Action Plan (“VSAP”), the finalized version of its. The post EPA Releases Vulnerable Species Action Plan appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

Environmental Protection

Endangered Species Law

APRIL 4, 2025

District Court for the Western District of Texas (District Court) vacated the Endangered Species Act (ESA) special 4(d) rule for the northern distinct population segment (DPS) of the lesser prairie-chicken (LEPC). The 4(d) rule had prohibited, in most circumstances, “take” of the species’ northern DPS.

Endangered Species Act

National Law Center

JULY 24, 2025

The Ag & Food Law Update > Search Site Navigation About the Center Professional Staff Partners Research by Topic Center Publications Webinar Series State Compilations Farm Bill Resources Ag Law Bibliography Ag Law Glossary Ag Law Reporter General Resources 24 Jul The Feed: Vol. 3, Issue 14, from July 24, 2025.

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National Law Center

JULY 9, 2025

The National Agricultural Law Center compiles and publishes a quarterly newsletter highlighting recent and upcoming events and resources. The newsletter for.

Law

National Law Center

JULY 8, 2025

The webinar is the latest installment in the NALC’s “Western Water” Webinar Series, which highlights pressing water law issues in the Western United States. NALC Director Harrison Pittman said the “Western Water” Webinar Series plays an important role in sharing legal insight on water law across the country.

2013

Acoel

JUNE 17, 2025

The focus is whether the declining bird should be listed and protected under the federal Endangered Species Act, and what conservation measures should be required of developers that impact the species’ habitat. The outcome of the debate will have implications for many other imperiled species. In 2022, the U.S.

Endangered Species Act

National Law Center

JUNE 10, 2025

However, the court disagreed, concluding that Swampbuster is a valid exercise of Congress’s spending power and that the law should be upheld. Share: Recent Posts Federal Court Finds Swampbuster Constitutional NALC news release: National Ag Law Center webinar to examine U.S. 5 U.S.C. §

2013

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.”

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

Acoel

APRIL 30, 2025

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) issued a proposed rule to rescind the regulatory definition of harm under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The post Major Shift Proposed for Endangered Species Act Interpretation: Redefining Harm appeared first on ACOEL.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 28, 2025

The law protecting other Provincial Parks is also in the government’s cross-hairs Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – The Ontario government is proposing to sell key parts of Ontario’s second most-visited Provincial Park (2023 data) for a development scheme.

Endangered Species Act

Legal Planet

JULY 31, 2025

EO 14308: Empowering Commonsense Wildfire Prevention and Response (various measures addressing wildlife prevention and response) EO 14304: Leading the World in Supersonic Flight (repealing prohibition on overland flights by SSTs) EO 14303: Restoring Gold Standard Science (imposing various requirements such as reproducibility, best available science, (..)

Endangered Species Act

Legal Planet

APRIL 21, 2025

Were that not so, those principles would fail to achieve the legal stability that they seek and upon which the rule of law depends. According to the Administration, reliance interests can generally be ignored because in all but the rarest cases, the executive has a duty to correctly follow the law that outweighs any reliance interest.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Dedication to upholding the Constitution and the Rule of Law is irrelevant. And in the first Trump administration, ENRD defended the constitutionality of the Endangered Species Act. Some join from prestigious law schools, others join from other state and private law schools across the country.

Natural Resources

Endangered Species Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announced it had opened status reviews for 38 species of plants, wildlife, and fish endemic to Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona (Southwest Species).

Endangered Species Act

National Law Center

JULY 10, 2025

The Ag & Food Law Update > Search Site Navigation About the Center Professional Staff Partners Research by Topic Center Publications Webinar Series State Compilations Farm Bill Resources Ag Law Bibliography Ag Law Glossary Ag Law Reporter General Resources 10 Jul The Feed: Vol. 3, Issue 12, from July 10, 2025.

Endangered Species Act

Legal Planet

JANUARY 10, 2025

What didnt receive unanimous support, and what was contentious, were proposals to change the way that environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), regulations under other federal laws such as the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and litigation would apply to management projects in firesheds.

Endangered Species Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 15, 2025

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

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. Ill post about how California might respond soon.) Download as PDF

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Acoel

APRIL 2, 2025

Because the water canals are unlikely to be habitat for species, installing solar panels over them instead of open land also should avoid Endangered Species Act issues and other wildlife conflicts. Reclamation Act) allows solar panels to be installed.

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. They’re sacrificing our species and the sovereignty of tribal nations for the sake of private interests.

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). For example, 43 C.F.R. Mexico border.

Fossil Fuels

National Law Center

MARCH 3, 2025

Roundup As February has ended, the staff at the National Agricultural Law Center continue to bring trusted research and information in.

Law

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.

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. In 2022, Congress passed, and President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”). Share: Recent Posts The Feed: Vol.

2013

Circle of Blue

MAY 20, 2025

Since it was passed by Congress and signed by President Nixon near the end of 1973 the Endangered Species Act served as the most powerful defense against natural resource exploitation that harmed vulnerable animals while also preserving wildlands that produced the cleanest lakes, streams, rivers, and groundwater in America.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 14, 2025

by Mariah Meek, Michigan State University and Karrigan Brk, University of California, Davis It wouldnt make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down, or to bar killing endangered salmon while allowing a dam to dry out their habitat.

Endangered Species Act

Legal Planet

MAY 13, 2025

Focusing on environmental laws, we are seeing that many of the environmental laws we adopted over 50 years ago to battle brown infrastructure so effectively are proving equally adept at obstructing green infrastructure. Abundance liberals argue that Americans have overregulated infrastructure development.

Environmental Protection

Legal Planet

APRIL 28, 2025

UC Berkeleys Center for Law, Energy, & Environment (CLEE) is sponsoring a series of papers evaluating aspects of Project 2025, The Heritage Foundation publication, entitled Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, which is being followed to a significant degree as a blueprint for the Trump Administration. Download as PDF

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Legal Planet

APRIL 28, 2025

This is a long shot at best, but if it works would allow the Administration to eliminate environmental law with a stroke of the pen. It wont matter much what environmental laws are on the books if theres no one left to implement them. The Forest Service is cutting 7000 staff positions. This makes for a depressing list.

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