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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Endangered Species Law

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) proposed to list the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl ( Glaucidium brasilianum cactorum ) (Owl) as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) primarily due to threats from climate change and habitat loss and fragmentation.

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Endangered Species Law

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Fish and Wildlife Service’s (Service) negative 12-month finding (Finding) on a petition by WildEarth Guardians (Guardians) to list the Joshua tree ( Yucca brevifolia ) as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). On September 14, 2016, the Service issued a positive finding on Guardians’ petition.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) on Wednesday confirmed the extinction of 22 animal species and one plant that had previously been listed under the Endangered Species Act.

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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. uses the power of the law to defend nature, combat climate change, and fight for a healthy environment.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2024

The US Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list the eastern Regal Fritillary butterfly as an endangered species and list the western regal fritillary butterfly as a threatened species under the federal Endangered Species Act. Read more here.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The report details how Highway 413 would threaten birds such as the Red-headed Woodpecker, an endangered species, the Short-eared Owl, which has suffered one of the steepest declines of any bird listed by the federal Species At Risk Act , and the Eastern Meadowlark, which Ontario has failed to protect under it’s Endangered Species Act. .

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Case challenges habitat protection provision under province’s Endangered Species Act. Habitat loss and degradation threaten the species’ survival and recovery – and beach raking has been identified as a threat to their habitat. The Town’s appeal will be heard by the Ontario Court of Appeal on February 22, 2022. -30-.

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Endangered Species Law

MAY 20, 2024

Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) published a final rule listing the dunes sagebrush lizard ( Scleroperus arenicolus ) (DSL) as endangered (Final Rule) under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

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Legal Planet

MAY 23, 2023

Because the NCCP process can be long and complex, individual projects typically don’t undertake it, but without such a plan the feasibility of a development where a fully protected species is present can be called into question, resulting in delays and, sometimes, abandonment of the project.

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Endangered Species Law

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) in a case challenging the agency’s final rule downlisting the American burying beetle ( Nicrophorus americanus ) to “threatened species” status under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 19, 2022

Her work focuses on climate change litigation, ocean law and policy, and renewable energy. . The North Pacific right whale is one of the rarest of all large whale species, and one of the most endangered species on the planet. Critical habitat is habitat that is needed to support recovery of a listed species.

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Law Columbia

JULY 31, 2023

The project is controversial due to both its location and its climate impacts. and an area that is highly sensitive to climate change due to the Arctic environment. climate commitments and Biden’s campaign promise to end oil and gas leasing on public lands. C and approximately equal to the remaining budget for 2.0°C.

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 17, 2024

With half its surface area gone, the country’s largest saline lake is verging on collapse due to the region’s overuse of water and climate change, threatening the ecosystem, Salt Lake City and Wilson’s phalarope. By Wyatt Myskow SALT LAKE CITY—To complete a nonstop 4,000-mile flight, Wilson’s phalarope needs fuel.

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Washington Nature

JANUARY 10, 2022

Protecting Natural and Working Lands In the past two decades, more than a million acres of open space — forests, farmland, ranches and urban tree canopy — have been converted to other uses, damaging fish and wildlife habitat, diminishing our ability to address climate change and negatively impacting human health. Advocate with the EPC.

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The Energy Law

MAY 24, 2023

The plaintiffs’ arguments centered mostly on the project’s impact on an endangered species, the North Atlantic right whale. BOEM approved the Construction and Operations Plan for the Vineyard Wind Project in July 2021, approximately 12 years after BOEM began evaluating the site for wind energy development.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

By Jessica Wentz, The IPBES Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (2019) estimated that approximately one million species are currently at risk of extinction, with climate change being a major driver of accelerating extinction risk.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In addition, the Cook Inlet distinct population segment has been listed as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. The largest threat to Arctic species is climate change, affecting both their habitat and the food they eat. The Arctic is heating up fast.

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Washington Nature

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

There were no environmental laws in the United States until Congress passed The Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Acts in the 1970s,” she said. They linked these events to climate change and the latest scientific evidence supporting it.

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Acoel

AUGUST 15, 2023

Endangered and threatened species are destined to boldly go where none of them has gone before – habitats outside of their historical range. Factors such as climate change and invasive species have caused ecosystems, once suitable for these species, to no longer be acceptable or sustainable.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2023

Senate Panel Probes How Cryptocurrency Mining Increases Energy Consumption In Nebraska And PA -- Senate Passes Bill Blocking Local Elected Officials From Moving To Cleaner Energy Sources To Combat Climate Change [PaEN] -- Rep.

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Earthava

APRIL 13, 2021

Blue whales are currently classified as endangered under the Endangered Species Act and protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Current protections have allowed for a minimal rebound, but human threats do still exist, like vessel strikes, fishing gear entanglement, and climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2023

7 Outreach Session In Luzerne County On Priority Climate Action Plan Initiatives -- DEP Hosts Dec. To Present Final Plan For Youghiogheny River Watershed Dec. 7 -- DEP Hosts Dec. 18 Hearing On Panther Creek Power Application To Burn Waste Tires In Carbon County -- DEP Invites Comments At Jan.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 3, 2022

Do this by restricting the use of Minister’s Zoning Orders, reversing changes that weakened Conservation Authorities, the Growth Plan and Planning Act and the Endangered Species Act.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2024

Million Agriculture Innovation Program -- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper Blog: Our Streams In Winter - A Look Into The Challenges And Resilience Of Our Waterways Through The Season -- Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: Will Climate Change Add More Nutrient Pollution To Chesapeake Bay?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2024

Spoiler - Yes] -- Centre Daily Times: Climate Watch: Winter Wildfires, Green Power Growth And Other Climate Topics Making News -- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Winter 2023-24 Is One Of Central PA’s Warmest, Wettest -- Erie Times: What Winter?

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Cresforum

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Continued investment in research, development, deployment, and commercialization will further lower costs and create more options to address climate change and help drive the domestic economy as the next generation of clean energy solutions are deployed around the world.

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Cresforum

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Continued investment in research, development, deployment, and commercialization will further lower costs and create more options to address climate change and help drive the domestic economy as the next generation of clean energy solutions are deployed around the world. OFFSET CARBON USING NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. Harvard Climate Justice Coalition v. and non-U.S.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. and non-U.S.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In addition, federal laws such as the Endangered Species Act have created federal claims for lake water to sustain threatened plants, animals and, most importantly, fish. The Tribes blame climate change for the failure of the lake to return to the usual full pool level after Spring runoff from snowmelt.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

District Court for the District of Montana vacated NWP 12, concluding that the Corps acted arbitrarily and capriciously by issuing the permit in 2017 without consulting the Fish and Wildlife Service or the National Marine Fisheries Service, as required by the Endangered Species Act.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2021

But California’s biodiversity faces grave threats – pressures from development that eliminates habitat; water shortages that harm aquatic species in California’s rivers; and climate change impacts that are shifting and altering habitats, among others. Download as PDF.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Climate change : The process by which the climate changes due to “forcings”. The biggest issues of the age include climate change and resource depletion, an issue that will affect coming generations as previous generations add to the depletion and environmental damage.

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Legal Planet

JULY 27, 2024

More is needed to meet our transmission challenge and accelerate the deployment of renewable energy, but not at the cost of increasing oil and gas drilling and coal mining, because we cannot tackle the climate crisis by extracting more of the very fossil fuels that cause climate change.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 17, 2023

That’s the most basic takeaway from the April 12 policy symposium convened by the UCLA Emmett Institute about the new federal laws to address climate change. 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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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in Virginia stopped construction again , raising the question of whether the FRA was Constitutional, and challenging that the move violated the Endangered Species Act. This brought the case to the U.S.

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