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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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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Legal Planet

AUGUST 25, 2022

On Monday, I explained why this is an especially urgent time for new law students to be thinking about the climate crisis and how they can contribute as lawyers. This is going to be a growth area for law firms and correspondingly an attractive career path for new lawyers. Land Use Law.

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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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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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Endangered Species Law

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) published a final rule increasing civil monetary penalties for violations of several federal wildlife and natural resource protection laws (Final Rule).

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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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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

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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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. first appeared on Law and the Environment. billion over 40 years. It’s not about whether $2.7

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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. first appeared on Law and the Environment.

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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

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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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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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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National Law Center

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Over the past year, the environmental law arena has seen various issues and developments that have had impacts on agriculture. The post Top Environmental Law Topics from 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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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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Legal Planet

MAY 23, 2023

But the package also makes a major change to California species protection law. This year, the last day for policy committees to hear bills fell at the end of April, so some may be wondering how these newly-introduced policy changes are nonetheless on the path to becoming law.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 6, 2022

A California appeals court ruled last week that bumblebees are fish and are therefore protected by the California Endangered Species Act (CESA). The root of the problem is the way different parts of California law fit together. There’s a definition of fish elsewhere in that law that sweeps pretty broadly.

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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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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

Dale Goble, professor of law at University of Idaho, passed this April. As a co-author of Dale’s on our Wildlife Law casebook, I wanted to add my personal recognition of his life and work. When I first started teaching law over 15 years ago, one of my first courses was a Biodiversity Law class. Download as PDF.

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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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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Ontario had one of the strongest endangered species laws in the world because the people of Ontario care about our natural heritage. And now the government has a new proposal – and it’s terrible for endangered species. And now the government has a new proposal – and it’s terrible for endangered species.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 2, 2022

Read the full story in the National Law Review. A California appellate court recently concluded that the bumble bee is a “fish,” at least for the purposes of certain provisions in the California Endangered Species Act (Cal. Because bumble bees are “fish,” they can be subject to the Cal.

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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

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

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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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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National Law Center

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The post Ag and Food Law Daily Update: September 26, 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center. A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. .

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 25, 2022

Ontario Court of Appeals decision upholds vital habitat protection provision under province’s Endangered Species Act. Ecojustice, acting on behalf of Environmental Defence and Ontario Nature, intervened in the case. Plant and animal species are the foundation of a healthy ecosystem. Toronto, Ont./ Ecojustice?uses

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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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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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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

The same is true in environmental law. Was it a fundamental paradigm shift, re-centering the law on new values? With all this in mind, here are the cases that I see as making up the canon and anti-canons of environmental law. This was a case under the Endangered Species Act. American Trucking Associations.

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Endangered Species Law

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) published two proposed rules to list three species—the northwestern pond turtle ( Actinemys marmorata ), the southwestern pond turtle ( Actinemys pallida ), and the short-tailed snake ( Lampropeltis extenuata )—as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

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