Weekly Cases Update Volume 48, Issue 12

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Volume 48, Issue 28

ELR 2017416-cv-2409 (TSC)(D.D.C., )

A district court denied commercial fishing groups' request to preliminarily enjoin development of a wind energy facility off the coast of New York.

Keywords:
Oil and gas leasing
ELR 2017516-1271(E.D. La., )

A district court ruled in favor of fishermen's challenge to NMFS regulations regarding offshore aquaculture in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

Keywords:
Aquaculture, Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act)
ELR 2017015-cv-00286-CMA-STV(D. Colo., )

A district court denied Colorado's and Utah's request to vacate FWS' decision to list the Gunnison sage grouse species as threatened under the ESA.

Keywords:
Critical habitat designation, Threatened species listing
ELR 2017113-cv-0240 (KBJ)(D.D.C., )

A district court vacated FWS' designation of land in California as critical habitat for the endangered Riverside fairy shrimp.

Keywords:
Critical habitat designation
ELR 201689:17-cv-00089-DLC(D. Mont., )

A district court vacated FWS' decision to delist the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem population of grizzly bears.

Keywords:
Determination of endangered and threatened species, §4
ELR 2016914-828 MV/KK(D.N.M., )

A district court remanded the U.S. Forest Service's decision concerning the management of roads and trails in the Santa Fe National Forest. An environmental group argued that the agency should have considered the effects of forest management on the endangered Jemez Mountains salamander.

Keywords:
Santa Fe National Forest, N.M., Endangered Species
ELR 2017313-0993(D.D.C., )

A district court vacated DOI's cancellation of an oil company's oil and gas lease in Montana. The company argued that cancellation after more than 30 years for a pre-lease NEPA violation that was never disclosed to the company was arbitrary and capricious.

Keywords:
Administrative Procedure Act (APA)