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. Alaska, filed Nov.

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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). Alaska, filed Dec.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Alaska Federal Court Vacated Federal Approvals of Major Oil Development Project in National Petroleum Reserve. The federal district court for the District of Alaska found deficiencies in federal defendants’ reviews and approvals of ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc.’s The court therefore vacated the U.S.

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