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Legal Planet
JUNE 28, 2025
The changes are focused on facilitating development where it is on net beneficial to the environment, and not in places where it would harm important natural resources. It includes conservation easements and state parks – lands that should not be available for development because of property law limits on development in any case.
National Law Center
AUGUST 12, 2025
Environmental plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against EPA, claiming that its 2016 registration decision violated both the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (“FIFRA”) and the Endangered Species Act (“EPA”). FIFRA is the primary federal law regulating pesticide use in the United States.
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Endangered Species Law
JULY 24, 2025
The Committee on Natural Resources (Committee) in the U.S. 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). The Committee held a hearing on this bill on March 25.
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.
National Law Center
JULY 24, 2025
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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. Swampbuster is implemented by the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (“NRCS”). 5 U.S.C. § To determine whether the plaintiff in CTM Holdings, LLC v.
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.
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