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FWS and NMFS Return to Stricter ESA Rules and Reverse Recent Streamlining Measures

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (together the Services) have issued three final rules effective May 6, 2024...more

5/9/2024 / Conservation , Critical Habitat , Endangered Species , Endangered Species Act (ESA) , Environmental Policies , ESA Listings , National Marine Fisheries Service , US Fish and Wildlife Service

Biden Administration Proposes Undoing Recent ESA Regulatory Reforms and Expanding Section 7 Consultations

On June 22, 2023, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (together “the Services”) issued three proposals largely aimed at undoing the Trump administration’s recent regulatory...more

6/30/2023 / Biden Administration , Conservation , Critical Habitat , Endangered Species , Endangered Species Act (ESA) , Environmental Policies , ESA Listings , National Marine Fisheries Service , US Fish and Wildlife Service

Complying with the Endangered Species Act

This practice note provides an overview of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq., and discusses the obligations of real estate developers and property owners with respect to the ESA. Congress enacted the...more

3/8/2023 / Comment Period , Conservation , Critical Habitat , Endangered Species , Endangered Species Act (ESA) , Environmental Policies , ESA Listings , Habitat Conservation Plan , National Marine Fisheries Service , US Fish and Wildlife Service

FWS Proposes Uplisting Northern Long-Eared Bat to Endangered Status

Project development east of the Rocky Mountains may be about to become exponentially more difficult in light of a new proposal under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). On March 23, 2022, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS)...more

3/29/2022 / Conservation , Endangered Species , Endangered Species Act (ESA) , ESA Listings , Habitat Conservation Plan , US Fish and Wildlife Service

Is the American Bumble Bee Endangered or Threatened? The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Plans to Find Out

On September 29, 2021, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) published notice in the Federal Register that it has made an affirmative 90-Day Finding for the American bumble bee, along with four other species, based on an...more

9/30/2021 / Endangered Species , Endangered Species Act (ESA) , ESA Listings , US Fish and Wildlife Service

New Regulations Reform Implementation of Endangered Species Act

Long-sought reforms to Endangered Species Act (ESA) implementation have arrived. On August 27, 2019, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) finalized regulations (the 2019...more

9/16/2019 / Conservation , Critical Habitat , Endangered Species , Endangered Species Act (ESA) , ESA Listings , National Marine Fisheries Service , Regulatory Reform , US Fish and Wildlife Service

Court Finds Endangered Species Act Cannot Regulate Species on Private Lands Within a Single State

In a win for property owners and project proponents, a Utah federal district court has ruled that the United States Constitution does not authorize the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“FWS”) to regulate impacts to the Utah...more

11/19/2014 / Administrative Procedure Act , Commerce Clause , Endangered Species Act (ESA) , ESA Listings , Jurisdiction , Private Property , Property Owners , Takings Clause , US Fish and Wildlife Service

W. Parker Moore

Beveridge & Diamond PC

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