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Volume 55, Issue 5

55 ELR 20017
No(s). 2:24-cv-00801-ODW (PVCx) (C.D. Cal. Feb 3, 2025)

A district court granted the state of California's motion to dismiss a challenge to two California laws—SB 253, Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act, and SB 261, Greenhouse Gases: Climate-Related Financial Risk—that require large businesses to publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emis

Keywords:
Climate Change (generally)
55 ELR 20018
No(s). 1:24-cv-00089 (D.N.D. Feb 3, 2025)

A district court granted summary judgment for a number of states in a challenge to a 2024 CEQ rule that revised regulations for implementing the procedural provisions of NEPA, including amendments in the Fiscal Responsibility Act.

Keywords:
Agencies
55 ELR 20020
No(s). 2:23-CV-00804-TC-DBP (D. Utah Feb 4, 2025)

A district court granted the state of Utah's and an oil and gas company's motions to dismiss a challenge to four leasing decisions made from 2018 through 2019, under which BLM issued 145 oil and gas leases on public lands throughout eastern Utah.

Keywords:
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
55 ELR 20019
No(s). 24-1388 (4th Cir. Feb 4, 2025)

The Fourth Circuit vacated a district court order that denied a motion to preliminarily enjoin the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's recommended fishery management plan (FMP) for striped bass.

Keywords:
Wildlife (generally)
55 ELR 20016
No(s). 24-1942 (4th Cir. Jan 31, 2025)

The Fourth Circuit affirmed a district court's denial of a motion to temporarily enjoin construction on a real estate development project in South Carolina.

Keywords:
Endangered Species Act (ESA)
55 ELR 20021
No(s). 23-13577 (11th Cir. Feb 6, 2025)

The Eleventh Circuit affirmed summary judgment for Florida's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) in a challenge to regulations promulgated by the Commission that restricted where and how Florida-registered fishing vessels could harvest Florida pompano in federal waters in the Gul

Keywords:
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act

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