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Endangered Species Act (ESA) › Arbitrary and Capricious › Administrative Procedure Act

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Southern Pinesnake/Endangered Species Act: Center for Biological Diversity Judicial Action Filed Challenging U.S. Fish and...

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The Center for Biological Diversity (“CBD”) filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia a Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief (“Complaint”) against the United States Fish and Wildlife...more

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Failure to Explain Selection of Project Alternative Violated NEPA and APA

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The Ninth Circuit held that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) acted arbitrarily and capriciously by failing to explain in its Record of Decision why it selected a project alternative that did not meet the development...more

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Projecting the Future: Court Upholds Listing for Bearded Seals - Ninth Circuit Decision Based on Projections of Climate Change...

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In Alaska Oil & Gas Ass'n v. Pritzker, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently upheld a rule listing two species of seals as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) based on climate change...more

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Use of long-term climate projections for bearded seal listing not necessarily a bellwether for Endangered Species Act decisions

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The Ninth Circuit this week upheld a National Marine Fisheries Service decision to list the Pacific bearded seal as threatened under the Endangered Species Act based primarily on threats from climate change, reversing a...more

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