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DOJ’s Smallest Largest Priority: Pangolins

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Federal wildlife trafficking and animal cruelty enforcement is alive and well even as the Trump administration re-allocates U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) resources. At first blush, enforcing wildlife trafficking crimes may...more

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California’s AB 550: A Blueprint for Balancing Development and Species Conservation

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California’s drive toward a net-zero carbon economy by 2045 is sparking innovative solutions to harmonize environmental conservation with infrastructure development. Assembly Bill (AB) 550, sponsored by Assembly Member...more

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Fish and Wildlife Service Increases Civil Penalties for Violations of Federal Wildlife Protection Laws

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On February 2, 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) published a final rule increasing civil monetary penalties for violations of several federal wildlife and natural resource protection laws (Final Rule).  The...more

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DEC Seeks Feedback by February 17th as it Considers Revamped Freshwater Wetland Regulations

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The 2022/2023 State budget included watershed (no pun intended) amendments to the regulations governing New York’s Freshwater Wetlands. It has been published that the changes to the Freshwater Wetlands Act are expected to...more

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Resource Optimization and Endangered Species Management

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On December 21, 2023, I published a post on the Center for California Water Resources Policy and Management’s DeltaCurrents blog discussing integration of resource optimization into endangered species policy to improve...more

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Environmental Law – The Year in Review

JANUARY 2020 - FEDERAL APPELLATE COURTS - U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit - El Paso County, Texas, et al. v. Donald J. Trump, et al. On January 8, 2020, a divided panel of the court quickly granted a...more

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Robbing the Wild - How 10 States' Refusal to Ban Trapping is Hurting America's Wild Turtles: Center for Biological Diversity...

The Center for Biological Diversity (“CBD”) issued a report titled: Robbing the Wild: How 10 States’ Refusal to Ban Trapping is Hurting American’s Wild Turtles (“Report”)...more

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New Administration Means Big Changes for Endangered Species

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The election of Donald Trump as President, together with Republican majorities in the House and Senate, is likely to lead to important policy changes across a range of issues. While administration of the Endangered Species...more

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