FWS determined endangered status under the ESA for Casey's June beetle and designated approximately 587 acres in Riverside County, California, as critical habitat for the species.

FWS and the NMFS determined that four species of loggerhead sea turtles should be listed as threatened and that five species should be listed as endangered under the ESA.

FWS designated 25 acres in Taney County, Missouri, as critical habitat for the Tumbling Creek cavesnail.

FWS established a nonessential experimental population of bull trout in the Clackamas River and its tributaries in Clackamas and Multnomah Counties, Oregon.

FWS reinstated the Virginia northern flying squirrel as endangered under the ESA as the result of a ruling in Friends of Blackwater v. Salazar, 1:09-cv-02122-EGS (D.D.C. Mar. 25, 2011).

FWS designated approximately 521.3 acres in Chaves County, New Mexico, and Pecos and Reeves Counties, Texas, as critical habitat for the Koster's springsnail, Noel's amphipod, Pecos assiminea, and Roswell springsnail.

FWS reclassified the tulotoma snail from endangered to threatened under the ESA based on a review of its status.

vUnited States v. Western Reman Industrial Inc., No. 11-cv-00008 (N.D. Ind. Jan. 10, 2011). A settling CERCLA defendant responsible for violations at the former Grissom Air Force Base in Peru, Indiana, must pay $300,000 in past and future U.S. response costs incurred at the site.

United States v. Lookout Mountain Mining & Milling Co., No. 11-0029 (D. Idaho Jan. 25, 2011). Settling CERCLA defendants responsible for violations at the Bunker Hill Mining and Metallurgical Complex Superfund site in northern Idaho must assign their interest in insurance policies to a trust and must pay 2% of net smelter returns from future activities.

United States v. Kansas City Southern Railway Co., No. 1:07-cv-1793 (W.D. La. Jan. 21, 2011). Under a modified 2008 consent decree, a settling CERCLA defendant's cleanup at the Ruston Foundry Superfund site in Alexandria, Louisiana, will permit unrestricted use of the site.