Alaska v. National Marine Fisheries Service

ELR Citation: 54 ELR 20044
No(s). 3:22-cv-00249-JMK (D. Alaska Mar 20, 2024) (Kindred, J.)

A district court denied the state of Alaska's and North Slope Borough's challenge to NMFS' decision not to delist the Arctic ringed seal as an endangered species following their 2019 petition. The plaintiffs argued NMFS failed to credit new information from FWS' analysis, failed to credit the Interg...