89 FR 22649
FWS proposed to remove the Roanoke logperch from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife due to recovery.
FWS proposed to remove the Roanoke logperch from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife due to recovery.
A district court granted in part and denied in part summary judgment for environmental groups in a challenge to an Idaho law authorizing expanded authorization of recreational wolf trapping and snaring in the state's grizzly bear habitat. The groups argued Idaho's continued authorization and expansi...
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...
In an unpublished opinion, the Ninth Circuit affirmed in part and reversed in part summary judgment for FWS in a challenge to the Service's issuance of an incidental take regulation for polar bears living along Alaska's Beaufort Sea. Environmental groups argued FWS failed to satisfy the Marine Mamma...
FWS revised the rule for the African elephant promulgated under §4(d) of the ESA in order to increase protection for the species, clarify the existing enhancement requirement, and incorporate a Party’s designation under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora National Legislation Project into various decisionmaking processes regarding imports.
SIP Proposal: Oregon (revisions to stationary source permitting rules).
SIP Approval: Maryland (regional haze).
EPA gave notice that the volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides motor vehicle emissions budgets in the submitted 2015 ozone moderate reasonable further progress plan for Allegan, Berrien, and Muskegon Counties are adequate for conformity purposes.
EPA updated a portion of the outer continental shelf air regulations for which North Carolina is the designated corresponding onshore area.
EPA entered into a proposed consent decree in in Sierra Club v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, No. 1:23-cv-01744-JDB (D.D.C.), that would establish deadlines for the Agency to sign a notice of proposed rulemaking for certain SIPs concerning regional haze.