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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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The court concluded that the Freedom of Information Act’s deliberative process privilege shielded the redactions from disclosure. The court rejected DLNR’s argument that a 2017 Hawaii Supreme Court decision requiring environmental review for aquarium fishing only applied to fishing with fine-meshed nets. Chevron Corp. ,

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