ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

A Hawaii court held that the Hawai‘i Environmental Policy Act requires environmental review for commercial taking of aquarium fish and that Department of Land and Natural Resources issuance and renewal of licenses for commercial aquarium collection without environmental review was invalid and illegal. Bureau of Land Management , No.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) approval of an offshore drilling and production facility off the coast of Alaska in the Beaufort Sea, finding that BOEM failed to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Minnesota v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

which has returned to the Northern District of California, the court scheduled a case management conference for November 12, 2020. Environmental Groups Challenged FERC Approval of Alaska LNG Project of “Unprecedented” Scale. On September 22, Alaska moved to withdraw as a respondent-intervenor, and the D.C.

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