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Fish and Wildlife Service (“USFWS”) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (“NMFS”) proposed rules to remove six species from the lists of endangered and threatened wildlife and plants under the EndangeredSpeciesAct (“ESA”). NMFS received a petition to.
The plaintiffs’ arguments centered mostly on the project’s impact on an endangeredspecies, the North Atlantic right whale. The plaintiffs’ arguments centered mostly on the project’s impact on an endangeredspecies, the North Atlantic right whale.
Blue whales, Balaenoptera musculus, make their homes in the planet’s vast open oceans where most migrate thousands of miles annually to feed, mate, and raise calves. There is also the Indian Ocean blue whale, Northern blue whale, and Pygmy blue whale. How Big Is A Blue Whale? One blue whale is approximately the weight of.
The Sabin Center today released the second in a series of white papers discussing legal issues associated with different ocean-based carbon dioxide removal techniques. the growing of kelp and other macroalgae which may be harvested for food, bioenergy, or other uses or sunk in the ocean to sequester the carbon it contains.
It stretches through China, Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia before emptying into the ocean in Vietnam. The United States, which did not attend the conference, announced a similar “30 by 30” conservation plan in January 2021. .” — Marc Goichot, a river specialist at the WWF in Vietnam. This Week’s Top Water Stories, Told In Numbers.
Hatcheries like the Carson National Fish Hatchery, pictured here, breed millions of salmon and let them grow until they are mature enough to be released so they can try to swim to the ocean. Nearly 250 million young salmon, most of them from hatcheries, head to the ocean each year — roughly three times as many as before any dams were built.
Guest Post by Annie Kellner , 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Polar bears were the first species to be listed under the EndangeredSpeciesAct proactively. Climate change will alter ocean currents, jet streams, species distributions, and the human geopolitical landscape.
Posted on December 13, 2021 by Gregory Bibler. The Marine Mammal Protection Act requires NMFS to prevent the depletion of endangered marine mammals that interact with commercial fisheries, the court stated, and the EndangeredSpeciesAct embodies Congress’s “plain intent.
NSF: The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics released the data tables for the 2021 Survey of Earned Doctorates. The data shows that the number of doctorates awarded in 2021 dropped by 5.4%% from 2020 levels, the biggest decrease recorded since NSF started tracking this information in 1958. in 2016 to 30.2%
The bill retains a provision from the House bill repealing section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021. 6180 ) to incentivize removing invasive lionfish from the oceans.
This summit will build on the work of the 2021 tribal nations summit, as well as other on-going work to strengthen nation-to-nation relations. USFWS: The agency granted threatened species protections for the Emperor Penguin ( Aptenodytes forsteri ) under the EndangeredSpeciesAct. 30 and Dec. NOAA – U.S.
That approval came a day after the administration said it would bar drilling in some other areas of Alaska and the Arctic Ocean. Does anyone really imagine that this project’s greenhouse gas emissions would not adversely affect the habitat of polar bears, or other ice-dependent listed species?
The significant nexus test determines that the Clean Water Act applies if wetlands have a “significant nexus” to regulated waters. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals used Kennedy’s “significant nexus” test when they sided with the EPA in a 2021 ruling in this case. Ocean Climate Action Plan. Comments are due by Nov.
3, 2021); Vecinos para el Bienestar de la Comunidad Costera v. On September 8, 2021, a federal district court in New Jersey granted the City of Hoboken’s motion to remand to state court its climate change lawsuit against oil and gas companies. 20, 2021), No. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , No. 20-1045 (D.C. Minnesota v.
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World leaders gather in France for ocean summit. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA, S. 1260 ), which passed the full Senate during summer 2021. The federal government has been operating under a continuing resolution since October 2021. Koala declared endangered as disease, lost habitat take toll – Associated Press.
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Congress House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee votes to nullify Clean Water Act rule using the Congressional Review Act. Executive Branch USFWS proposes listing two populations of California spotted owl under the EndangeredSpeciesAct. States Washington state holds carbon allowance auction.
Biden administration repeals definition of habitat under the EndangeredSpeciesAct. Top line agency numbers in the spending bills include: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $6.8 Morgan is a professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Twenty-four ESA members and graduate students in ecology participated in virtual Hill visits, as a part of the 2021 Katherine S. Senate Commerce Committee: The Committee voted to advance the Bolstering Long-term Understanding and Exploration of the Great Lakes, Oceans, Bays and Estuaries (BLUE GLOBE) Act ( S. 2 position at USDA.
Congress funded the Office of Science at $7.475 billion in FY 2022 and $7.026 billion in FY 2021. USFWS: Citing the impacts of white-nose syndrome on the species, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is proposing classifying the northern long-eared bat ( Myotis septentrionalis ) as an endangeredspecies.
Court strikes down Trump administration EndangeredSpeciesAct regulations. IPBES releases reports about valuing nature and the use of wild species. Morgan and was a deputy division leader at NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory until 2021. Executive Branch. International. She has a Ph.D. 13, 2022).
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UN plans virtual Biodiversity Conference in October 2021 and in-person meeting in April and May 2022. Innovation and Competition Act with representatives from the White House and the Commerce Department. 16, 2021 ). 16, 2021 ). The agency attributes the species status to declining water quality and quantity.
OSTP: The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will be holding a confirmation hearing for Dr. Eric Lander’s nomination to serve as Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 10 am ET. A Proclamation on National Park Week, 2021 – The White House.
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billion, a nearly 20% increase over FY 2021 levels. This includes a 39% increase for climate research and a 29% increase for the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) reintroduced the House version of the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act ( H.R. 2773 ) in April 2021.
NOAA: The House Science Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow, Tuesday, April 18, to consider Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-OK)’s draft legislation to take the National Oceanic Administration out of the Department of Commerce and make NOAA into an independent agency. Previously, the bat species was listed as a threatened species.
EPA’s response to the petitions is due June 3, 2021. 29, 2021); North American Coal Corp. On April 15, 2021, federal defendants, defendant-intervenors, and environmental groups filed a stipulation for dismissal of appeals of a district court’s November 2020 decision finding that the U.S. West Virginia v. 20-1530 (U.S.
Please join ESA in sharing lessons learned from the 2021 United Nations Conference of the Parties Meeting (also known as COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, and actions we can take going forward as a professional society Jan. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) introduced the Alaska Salmon Research Task Force Act ( S. 19, and Jan.
NSF releases 2021 Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering report. Climate change is reshaping our lands and our oceans and our coasts. House Science Committee Chair Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) and Ranking Member Frank Lucas (R-TX) introduced the House version of this bill in January 2021 ( H.R.
US Fish and Wildlife Service reverses EndangeredSpeciesAct rules. The final bill includes just eight additional amendments, each of which added language to the bill but did not modify any of the initial provisions of the bill introduced by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in mid-May 2021. Executive Branch.
NOAA: The House Science Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow, Tuesday, April 18, to consider Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-OK)’s draft legislation to take the National Oceanic Administration out of the Department of Commerce and make NOAA into an independent agency. Previously, the bat species was listed as a threatened species.
Williams joined the Biden administration in January 2021 and is currently serving as the agency’s principal deputy director. The federal government has been operating under a continuing resolution since October 2021. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA, S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Comments are due by March 4, 2022.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and other Senate Democrats are most likely preparing to reintroduce the Endless Frontiers Act as part of a larger legislation package ( see ESA Policy News, March 22, 2021 ). 151 ) in the House of Representatives in February 2021. Meng’s resolution has 146 co-sponsors. Register here.
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