News & Analysis as of

US Fish and Wildlife Service Center for Biological Diversity Environmental Policies

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Listing Timeline/Endangered Species Act: Center for Biological Diversity and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Enter into Stipulated...

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (“Service”) and Center for Biological Diversity (“CBD”) entered into a January 16th Stipulated Settlement Agreement (“Agreement”) imposing deadlines for required listing decisions...more

Nossaman LLP

Group Seeks Permitting Requirement for Bird Deaths at Commercial Buildings

Nossaman LLP on

On September 4, 2024, the Center for Biological Diversity, along with more than 20 other groups, (collectively, CBD) delivered a petition (Petition) to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) in which CBD requested the...more

Nossaman LLP

CBD Lawsuit Challenges Service’s Failure to Prevent Toxic Pesticides from Harming Endangered Species

Nossaman LLP on

On February 1, 2024, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) filed an amended complaint (Complaint) in the U.S. District Court of Arizona, alleging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) failed to timely analyze the...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Pyramid Pigtoe Mussel/Endangered Species Act: Center for Biological Diversity Judicial Complaint Alleging U.S. Fish and Wildlife...

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

Holland & Hart LLP

Restraining ESA Critical Habitat: Ninth Circuit Overturns FWS’s Jaguar Critical Habitat Designation

Holland & Hart LLP on

On May 17, 2023, in Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (CBD v. FWS), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals set aside parts of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) designation of critical...more

Nossaman LLP

Federal Court Allows Center for Biological Diversity to Continue Large ESA Lawsuit Against U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Nossaman LLP on

Last week, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a ruling allowing the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) to continue pursuing its large Endangered Species Act (ESA) lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and...more

Nossaman LLP

Dunes Sagebrush Lizard Back in Court

Nossaman LLP on

On May 19, 2022, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (Service) failure to make a timely...more

Nossaman LLP

Conservation Group Sues USFWS over Protections for Two California Fish Species

Nossaman LLP on

Last week, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) filed suit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, alleging that the agency violated the Endangered...more

Nossaman LLP

D.C. Circuit Shuts Down Challenge to Species Status Assessments

Nossaman LLP on

In a per curiam decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit dismissed the Center for Biological Diversity’s (CBD) challenge to the Fish and Wildlife Service’s (Service) process for assessing the status...more

Williams Mullen

Corps’ Nationwide Permits Rule Hits Blue Wall

Williams Mullen on

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers published its final rule for the Reissuance and Modification of Nationwide Permits in the waning days of the Trump Administration. The final rule reissues and modifies 12 existing nationwide...more

Allen Matkins

California Environmental Law & Policy Update - January 2021 #3

Allen Matkins on

Biden orders review and reversal of over 100 Trump administration environmental regulations - The New York Times – January 20 - President Joe Biden this Wednesday recommitted the United States to the Paris climate...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Houston Toad/Endangered Species Act: Center for Biological Diversity Judicial Challenge to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Recovery...

The Center for Biological Diversity (“CBD”) filed a February 24th Complaint for Declaratory Injunctive Relief (“Complaint”) against the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (“Service”) involving the Endangered Species Act...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Louisiana-Mississippi Map Turtles/Endangered Species Act: Center for Biological Diversity Federal District Challenge to U.S. Fish...

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

Nossaman LLP

Court Remands Northern Long-eared Bat Listing Back to USFWS

Nossaman LLP on

Yesterday, in Center for Biological Diversity v. Everson?, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia overturned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (USFWS) decision to list the northern long-eared bat...more

Nossaman LLP

Settlement Agreement Requires Grizzly Bear Status Review

Nossaman LLP on

The U.S. District Court for the District of Montana has approved a partial settlement between the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) requiring that the Service complete and...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Migratory Bird Treaty Act: Environmental Organizations File Lawsuit Challenging Department of Interior Solicitor's Interpretive...

A number of environmental organizations filed a May 24th Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief (“Complaint”) challenging as unlawful and arbitrary and capricious the: . . . December 22, 2017 Solicitor’s...more

16 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide