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Polling Shows GTA Voters Would Punish Federal Liberals if They Fail to Designate 413 for Impact Assessment and Protect Habitat and Waterways

Enviromental Defense

Across the GTA, Liberal support would fall from 20 per cent to 11 per cent if the government decides to let Highway 413 proceed without an independent federal impact assessment. There are 29 federally listed species at risk of extinction along the 413 highway corridor, and at least 24 navigable waterways.

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Now You’re in Law School. What Should You Take?

Legal Planet

If you do corporate work, you can focus on ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance). Or you can work for the government — for instance, as someone who prosecutes environmental crimes. There are a lot of rules governing land development, not all of them embodied in zoning laws. Social Justice Lawyering.

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ABA Publishes Third Edition of Endangered Species Act Treatise

Endangered Species Law

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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Environmentalism and the Supreme Court

Legal Planet

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. American Trucking Associations. This case is a century older.

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Chop, chop: Ontario’s Attacks on Endangered Species Keep Coming

Enviromental Defense

But, throughout their term of office, the current government has done everything in their power to remove or avoid those protections. 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 .

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ESA Preempts Oregon Water Rule in U.S. District Court Decision

Endangered Species Law

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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Massachusetts Court Rejects Endangered Species Act Challenge to Offshore Wind Project

Endangered Species Law

This is the first federal court decision upholding, on the merits, the federal government’s approval of a commercial-scale offshore wind project. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management , 21-cv-11390 (Talwani, J.). There are three other cases pending that also seek to.