Defenders of Wildlife v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

ELR Citation: 52 ELR 20021
No(s). 21-cv-00344-JSW, 21-cv-00349-JSW, and 21-cv-00561-JSW (N.D. Cal. Feb 10, 2022) (White, J.)

A district court vacated and remanded FWS’ 2020 rule that removed the gray wolf from the ESA list of endangered and threatened wildlife. Environmental groups argued FWS violated the ESA by failing to analyze gray wolves across the entire lower 48 states and based its delisting decision on the purp...