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.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 13, 2021

A nonprofit organization challenged the environmental review for construction and demolition projects at the Wisconsin Air National Guard’s 115th Fighter Wing Installation at a regional airport in Madison. Safe Skies Clean Water Wisconsin, Inc. The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes filed a lawsuit in federal court in Idaho challenging the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The Ninth Circuit said the new issuance of NWP 12 rendered the appeals moot and ordered the district court to dismiss the underlying claim. The Ninth Circuit declined, however, to take a position on whether the underlying cases were moot in their entirety and also declined to vacate any district court decisions.

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