Ecological Rights Foundation v. Federal Emergency Management Agency

ELR Citation: 49 ELR 20083
No(s). 17-cv-02788-JD (N.D. Cal. May 15, 2019) (Donato, J.)

A district court granted environmental groups' motion to set aside FEMA's biological evaluation to determine whether proposed revisions to the National Flood Insurance Program would affect species and habitats protected under the ESA. The groups argued that FEMA wrongfully failed to consider effects...