Ninth Circuit finds for FWS, FS in timber case involving northern spotted owl
The Ninth Circuit yesterday affirmed a lower court order upholding federal agencies' review and approval of the Beaverslide Project and its effect on the threatened Northern spotted owl (Conservation...
View ArticleSea Shepherd, Watson found in contempt by Ninth Circuit
The Ninth Circuit has found Sea Shepherd, founder Paul Watson and six volunteer members of the Sea Shepherd US board in contempt of court for violating an injunction that forbade the group's ships from...
View Article9th backs FWS, FS approval of Nez Perce NF thinning project
The Forest Service and Fish and Wildlife Service adequately reviewed a thinning project in the Nez Perce National Forest, the Ninth Circuit concluded in an unpublished opinion released today (Alliance...
View ArticleESA petition re: water for Delta smelt rejected by Supreme Court
#SupremeCourt rejects #California water users' petition to review Ninth Circuit ESA decision http://t.co/rbdF79v7c0 order list #SCOTUS — Steve Davies (@ESWR_Update) January 12, 2015 Stories on #SCOTUS...
View ArticleLack of ESA consultation used to try to deep-six herbicide
Environmental groups file motion in 9th Cir. seeking stay of EPA approval EPA should have consulted with the Fish and Wildlife Service before approving a new herbicide for use in the Midwest,...
View ArticleUmatilla NF project does not violate NFMA, NEPA, 9th finds
The Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court decision that upheld the Forest Service's approval of a small fuels treatment/commercial timber harvest project on the Umatilla National Forest (The Lands...
View ArticleNinth affirms dissolution of injunction in FS Montana grizzly case
Video of oral argument | Audio (2/5/15) The Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court's dissolution of an injunction in a challenge to the Grizzly Project on the Kootenai National Forest (Alliance for the...
View ArticleLawsuit against Shell drilling in Chuckchi filed; ITP’s vacated, sent back to...
Afternoon update: A coalition of environmental groups has filed a lawsuit (technically, a petition for review) in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's...
View Article9th Circuit vacates sulfoxaflor registration, citing lack of data on bees
Ed. note: Our initial report on this decision, relying on the court's decision, identified sulfoxaflor as a neonicotinoid. It is, in fact,a sulfoximine. (The opinion said sulfoxaflor "acts on the same...
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