By Wayne D’Angelo, Kelley Drye & Warren, LLP. Industries that are most often impacted by Endangered Species Act (ESA) listings, and those of us that represent them, are familiar with environmental organizations using ESA’s petition process - and their own [...]
By Congressman Cynthia Lummis (WY) It is no secret that the Endangered Species Act (ESA) has become the third rail of natural resources policy. It is so thoroughly embedded into our national dialogue regarding wildlife conservation that it has become [...]
By Joe Nelson, Van Ness Feldman, LLP Do not mistake the mundane for the unimportant. With two routine notices, one published in January and the second posted on an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) website at the end of [...]
Rep. Steve Daines of Montana Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to spend a day in Sidney, Montana. From standing near the base of a recently constructed oil rig to having candid conversations with local business owners who have [...]
By Molly Cagle & Carlos Romo, Baker Botts L.L.P. On March 26, 2013, a panel of three judges from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit stayed the U.S. District Court ruling in The Aransas Project (TAP) [...]
By David Bernhardt, a Shareholder with Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP and the former Solicitor of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Many have criticized the massive legal settlement recently agreed to by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (the [...]
By Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) In 2011, two environmental groups settled multi-district litigation with the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) that will result in potentially hundreds of species being added to the endangered species list and the payment of expensive [...]
By Nancy Macan McNally, NESARC Approaching its 40th anniversary later this year, the Endangered Species Act originally was approved by Congress, with broad bipartisan support, to protect high profile endangered species such as the grizzly bear. Throughout the years, implementation [...]