Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit also rejected EPA’s argument that the court did not have authority to review stays issued under Section 307(d)(7)(D) of the Clean Air Act. Circuit concluded that EPA had acted arbitrarily and capriciously in determining that the four elements of the regulations that had been stayed met these requirements.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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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). The court ordered EPA to file a plan and schedule for compliance within 14 days.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 17, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act is all carrots, and very few sticks. For better or worse, it’s an incentives-based law that moves away from the reliance on traditional regulation and enforcement. That’s a major departure from the environmental legislation of the 1970s—NEPA, the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, to name a few.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2025

On April 9, the President issued two new executive orders requiring agencies to adopt one year sunset dates on any existing regulations affecting energy. A second order requires agencies to identify regulations that limit competition. So if the federal regulations disappear, so could Pennsylvanias regulations.]

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

In what may be considered a warning shot to overzealous federal prosecutors looking to obtain criminal convictions under the Clean Air Act (“CAA”) or the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (“MBTA”), the Court of Appeals reversed criminal convictions against Citgo related to violations of both Acts at its Corpus Christi refinery.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

But in January, during arguments in two cases involving herring fishermen in Rhode Island and New Jersey who objected to federal requirements to pay for at-sea monitors to prevent overfishing, the conservative justices seemed sympathetic to the notion that such deference results in too many burdensome regulations.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Scientific provisions in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee bill is largely similar to the House bill: The Fish and Wildlife Service receives $200 million for Endangered Species Act recovery plans and $9.7 The Environmental Protection Agency receives $100 million for air quality and climate research.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2024

Unless the Court moderates its views, future regulations will face tough sledding. The Clean Water Act requires that industrial sources reduce their discharges, but it left two big questions unanswered: Would EPA or the states set the pollution limits? This is the case that put teeth into the Endangered Species Act.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit found that FERC failed to address the significance of a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulation that the petitioners argued required use of the social cost of carbon or another methodology to assess the impacts of the projects’ greenhouse gas emissions. The states appealed the dismissal of the case. Missouri v.

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ESA

AUGUST 1, 2022

This includes a $35 million increase for the Ecological Services for Endangered Species Act activities. This action is similar to actions proposed in the Save Our Sequoia Act ( H.R. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Act. In the Interior Department, the U.S. Scott Peters (D-CA).

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2024

They involve reduced protection for endangered species, eliminating energy efficiency rules, blocking new transmission lines, changing electricity regulation to favor fossil fuels, weakening air pollution rules, and encouraging sale of gas guzzlers. #1. Undermining endangered species protections.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In addition, the court rejected the contention that the Clean Air Act or foreign affairs doctrine completely preempted the plaintiffs’ claims and also indicated that federal common law would not provide a basis for complete preemption. Circuit Ruled that EPA Must Consider Endangered Species in Setting Renewable Fuel Standards.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Biden administration proposed repealing Trump administration Endangered Species Act regulations. Fish and Wildlife Service receives $180 million for developing and carrying out Endangered Species Act recovery plan and a combined $19.4 The Biden administration seeks to replace the Trump regulations.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 21, 2025

The Trump Administration is about to embark on overruling a key regulation protecting endangered species. That regulation, which the Supreme Court upheld in the Sweet Home case (1995), protects members of endangered species from being killed or injured indirectly via destruction of their habitat.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Washington Supreme Court Invalidated Regulation of Indirect Greenhouse Gas Emissions. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Northern Plains Resource Council v. 95885-8 (Wash.

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Acoel

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In 1971 the Clean Air Act was passed and Nixon signed it. In 1972 the Clean Water Act was passed and Nixon signed it. In 1973 the Endangered Species Act was passed and Nixon signed it. But now, with the benefit of hindsight, I recall that in1969 NEPA was passed and Nixon signed it.

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ESA

JANUARY 18, 2022

Judge orders USFWS to reconsider 2019 decision to not list the Yellowstone bison under the Endangered Species Act. A draft of IPBES’ thematic assessment of invasive alien species and their control is open for review. EPA – Clean Air Act Advisory Committee Meeting (Feb. Executive Branch.

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ESA

DECEMBER 6, 2021

3277 ) to codify a Trump administration regulation that limited states’ ability to block fossil fuel projects under the Clean Water Act. EPA – Clean Air Act Advisory Committee Meeting (Dec. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit. 12, 2021 ( comment period extended ).

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Fish and Wildlife Service receives $180 million for developing and carrying out Endangered Species Act recovery plans and a combined $19.4 The Biden administration moved Thursday to formally repeal the Trump administration’s controversial rule that vastly restricted the scope of Clean Water Act protections.

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

EPA – Clean Air Act Advisory Committee Meeting (Feb. EPA – Public Meeting of the Chartered Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) and CASAC Particulate Matter Panel (Feb. BLM – Alaska Resource Advisory Council Meetings (Feb. BLM – Public Meetings of the Idaho Resource Advisory Counci l (Feb.

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ESA

DECEMBER 5, 2022

USFWS: Citing the impacts of white-nose syndrome on the species, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) finalized a rule listing the northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) as an endangered species. Previously, the species was listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision that vacated the listing of the Arctic ringed seal as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Federal Court Dismissed Challenge to Executive Order on Reducing Regulation. ExxonMobil Corp. applied federal common law. Public Citizen, Inc.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Montana Federal Court Vacated Nationwide Permit Due to Corps of Engineers Failure to Initiate Consultation Under Endangered Species Act. The court found that there was “resounding evidence” in the record that authorized discharges may affect endangered and threatened species and critical habitat and that the U.S.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 23, 2025

The administration has officially filed proposed regulations to reinstate Schedule F but renamed Schedule Policy/Career. About 90 percent of the sampled cleaned surfaces showed Pb levels below the EPA limit, indicating that cleaning is often, but not always, effective at removing heavy metals from surfaces. Schedule F 2.0:

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ESA

JULY 1, 2022

Biden administration repeals definition of habitat under the Endangered Species Act. USFWS : The Biden administration repealed a Trump-era Endangered Species Act rule which created a definition of habitat under the Endangered Species Act. Previous regulations weakened these protections.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) did not sufficiently explain why it reversed a previous determination that the Pacific walrus qualified for listing as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Lawsuit Sought Protection for 10 Species Under Endangered Species Act. May 17, 2021).

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Perciasepe said the administration would likely include efforts to expand natural carbon sinks, the next generation of regulations for vehicle emissions, and the likelihood of new clean energy and electric vehicle tax credits. EPA – Proposed Stipulated Partial Settlement Agreement, Endangered Species Act Claims.

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ESA

JULY 18, 2022

Court strikes down Trump administration Endangered Species Act regulations. IPBES releases reports about valuing nature and the use of wild species. Describes How It Will Regulate Power Plants After Supreme Court Setback – The New York Times. These 2019 regulations allowed the U.S. Executive Branch.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

More News: Landowner help sought to protect endangered animals, plants – Associated Press Biden’s New Policy to Protect Federal Scientists May Lack Teeth to Prevent Retaliation – Government Executive What You Need to Know About EPA’s Waters of the U.S. 20 Invasive Species Programs Across Mexico Tuesday, Feb. ET on March 3, 2023.

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ESA

MAY 17, 2021

EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit. EPA – Rescinding the Rule on Increasing Consistency and Transparency in Considering Benefits and Costs in the Clean Air Act Rulemaking Process. Justice Dept.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

One example is the Trump administration’s early decision to eliminate California’s ability to set motor vehicle emission standards more stringent than those USEPA adopts for most of the nation–as explicitly contemplated by Congress under section 209 of the federal Clean Air Act.

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ESA

APRIL 19, 2021

EPA – Clean Air Act Advisory Committee: Request for Nominations. EPA – Regulation of Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Chemicals Under TSCA Section 6(h); Request for Comments. EPA – Multiple-Path Particle Dosimetry Model Software With Technical Support Documentation and User’s Guide (External Review Draft).

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ESA

APRIL 18, 2023

Planning requires the expertise of ecologists, landscape architects, environmental planners, and environmental engineers, and can be incentivized by local regulations. Pete Stauber (R-MN) introduced a Congressional Review Act resolution nullifying a U.S. Previously, the bat species was listed as a threatened species.

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ESA

JANUARY 10, 2022

USFWS : The agency is proposing listing the ferruginous pygmy-owl ( Glaucidium brasilianum cactorum ), which is found in Mexico, Arizona and Texas, as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. EPA – Clean Air Act Advisory Committee Meeting (Feb.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

The Clean Air Act provision at issue authorizes small refineries to petition EPA “for an extension of the exemption … for the reason of disproportionate economic hardship.” Virginia Federal Court Said Challenge to NEPA Regulations Was Not Justiciable. Washington State Dairy Federation v. 52952-1-II (Wash. June 29, 2021).

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ESA

AUGUST 30, 2021

Additionally, USFWS is proposing listing Texas fawnsfoot ( Truncilla macrodon ) as a threatened species. The agency attributes the species status to declining water quality and quantity. This proposed rule also designates 1,944 river miles as critical habitat for the species. This proposed rule is open for comments through Oct.

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