Endangered Species Law

MARCH 29, 2024

Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (collectively, the Services) made available pre-publication versions of the agencies’ long-awaited updates to regulations implementing sections 4 and 7 of the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

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Vorys Law

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) proposed listing the monarch butterfly as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). On December 12, 2024, the U.S.

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Scientific American

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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Nanotech

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Assistant Administrator Michal Freedhoff announced the steps EPA is taking to incorporate stakeholder feedback and collaborate with other federal agencies on its requirement to comply with the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

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Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2024

Endangered Species Act (ESA ). In some ways the most robust environmental law because of its stringent requirements, which protect rare species and the ecosystems in which they live. Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA).

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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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Scientific American

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The Endangered Species Act requires that every U.S. plant and animal be saved from extinction, but after 50 years, we have to do much more to prevent a biodiversity crisis

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Endangered Species Law

MARCH 3, 2023

On February 28, 2023, I published a post on the Center for California Water Resources Policy and Management’s DeltaCurrents blog discussing Species Status Assessments (SSAs) as a tool to facilitate implementation of the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA).

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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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Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

Climate change as reason for threatened or endangered status under Endangered Species Act. Investment and incentives for clean technologies under the Inflation Reduction Act. Climate change as substantial impact requiring discussion in environmental impact statement. Federal energy policy A.

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Endangered Species Law

JUNE 28, 2023

On June 22, 2023, the U.S.

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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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PBS Nature

MAY 7, 2024

As their territory expands into cattle country, local ranchers reassert that grizzlies should be delisted under the Endangered Species Act, which would pave the way for legal hunting of the bears.

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National Law Center

JUNE 11, 2024

The Endangered Species Act (“ESA”) is widely recognized as one of the strongest wildlife protection laws in the world. The post Ag & the ESA: When a Species is Listed “Wherever Found” appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center. The primary.

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Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Climate change is reducing the snowpack the mythic predators depend on for their dens, but resistance from resource extraction and recreation interests delayed Endangered Species Act protection. By Grant Stringer After decades of battles that spanned five U.S.

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Environmental Law Centre

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Join the Environmental Law Centre for a webinar on species at risk management as the Centre rolls out its Model Endangered Species Act (ESA) for Alberta. The post A Model Endangered Species Act for Alberta: An opportunity to move Albertas Nature Strategy to the next level appeared first on Environmental Law Centre.

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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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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

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). That may sound ridiculous, but there’s actually a convoluted legal argument to support the court.

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Nanotech

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of final guidance to improve the efficiency of EPA’s Endangered Species Act (ESA) analyses for new pesticide active ingredient applications and active ingredients undergoing registration review. On September 14, 2023, the U.S.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

This was a case under the Endangered Species Act. The Supreme Court interpreted the statute to place an absolute priority on preserving endangered species, regardless of the impact on the economy or other government goals. This decision made the Endangered Species Act the strongest of the environmental statutes.

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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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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The critical habitat in the state would expand to nearly 2 million acres in the first update since the West Indian manatee was protected under the Endangered Species Act in 1976. By Amy Green ORLANDO, Fla.—The

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

With too little … Continue reading Emperor penguins get Endangered Species Act protection – with 98% of colonies at risk of extinction by 2100, can it save them?

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 25, 2022

The Endangered Species Act can have a big effect on land use in some parts of the country. Traditional land use law is tied in with urban sprawl, a big problem in terms of carbon emissions and urban air pollution. There are a lot of rules governing land development, not all of them embodied in zoning laws.

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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. 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. He also vacated EPA’s 2016 chronic freshwater criterion for cadmium.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

And now the government has a new proposal – and it’s terrible for endangered species. TELL ONTARIO NOT TO BY-PASS THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT . The provincial government has created a ‘pay-to-slay’ fund that allows developers to pay money rather than actually protecting endangered species.

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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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Inside Climate News

AUGUST 7, 2021

Because of global warming, they could soon become the latest species to be listed under the Endangered Species Act. But climate change threatens to drive these sea ice-dependent birds to extinction by the end of the century.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The most useful evidence to support legal actions demonstrate violations of environmental protections afforded by laws like the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act. However, policy that relies on science requires a very different set of questions and answers.

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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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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

JANUARY 24, 2022

In July 2021, CalTrout submitted a petition to the California Fish and Game Commission (Commission) to list a population of the fish Oncorhynchus mykiss , referred to as the Southern California Steelhead or Southern Steelhead, as an endangered species under the California Endangered Species Act (CESA).

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Endangered Species Law

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) has issued a final rule reclassifying the Morro shoulderband snail ( Helminthoglypta walkeriana ) from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The final rule also includes a rule issued under ESA section 4(d) to provide for the conservation of the species.

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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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Endangered Species Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

On February 16, 2022, a California state court upheld protections afforded the western Joshua tree ( Yucca brevifolia ) under the California Endangered Species Act (CESA).

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