Weekly Cases Update Volume 50, Issue 7
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Volume 50, Issue 14
ELR 2010919-cv-10639-IT(D. Mass.,
)
A district court ordered the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environment Affairs (MEOEEA) to seek an incidental take permit pursuant to the ESA before issuing licenses that allow fishermen to use vertical buoy ropes (VBRs) in Massachusetts coastal waters.
Keywords:
Incidental taking
ELR 20106CV-18-73-GF-BMM(D. Mont.,
)
A district court vacated 287 oil and gas leases that BLM issued on 145,000 acres of federal land in Montana. Environmental groups argued that the agency violated NEPA by failing to consider the leases' impacts on groundwater from shallow fracturing and surface casing depth.
Keywords:
Discussion of, held inadequate