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Energy Law: Month in Review - April 2024

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Welcome to Dorsey’s Energy Law: Month in Review. We provide this update to our clients to identify significant developments in the previous month. ...more

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This Week At The Ninth: Personal Jurisdiction and Forest Fires

This week, the Ninth Circuit considers personal jurisdiction in a trademark declaratory judgment action and assesses an agency’s decision to omit an environmental-impact statement in connection with a forest-fire-management...more

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Infrastructure Risks and Opportunities

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This is the third issue of WilmerHale’s 10-in-10 Hot Topics in Energy Series. Over the next 10 weeks, our attorneys will share insights on current and emerging issues affecting the US energy sector. ...more

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Endangered Species Act/National Environmental Policy Act: Federal Appellate Court Addresses Challenge to Forest Service Post -...

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) addressed in a November 29th Opinion National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) and Endangered Species Act (“ESA”) challenges to post-fire projects...more

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Reforestation Project/National Environmental Policy Act: Federal Appellate Court Addresses Environmental Assessment /EIS Issues

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (“9th Circuit”) addressed issues associated with two United States Forest Service (“Forest Service”) fire salvage and restoration projects. See Alliance for the Wild Rockies v. Mary...more

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Environmental Impact Statement/National Environmental Policy Act: Federal Appellate Court Considers Whether Fire Line is Exempted

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Court”) addressed in a June 8th opinion whether a community protection line (“CPL”) constructed during a wildfire is exempted from the requirement to prepare a...more

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Federal Spending Bill Changes Wildfire Suppression Funding and Other Forestry Initiatives

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The $1.3 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018, which was signed into law on March 23, 2018, (the Act) includes bipartisan measures to fundamentally change how the U.S. Forest Service and other federal agencies pay...more

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Court Enjoins "Salvage Harvest" Project In Area Scorched By The Mill Fire

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In 2012, the Mill Fire burned almost 30,000 acres in California, destroying large areas of forest, including threatened Northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) habitat. Even after the Mill Fire was finally snuffed...more

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Ninth Circuit Declines to Apply EIS Requirements to an EA

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On September 20, 2012, the Ninth Circuit rejected a challenge mounted under both NFMA and NEPA to the validity of the Angora Fire Restoration Project. See Earth Island Institute v. U.S. Forest Service, No. 11-16718, slip op....more

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