Colorado v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service

ELR Citation: 48 ELR 20170
No(s). 15-cv-00286-CMA-STV (D. Colo. Sep 27, 2018) (Arguello, J.)

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. The states argued that many of the agency's claimed threats to the species were unsupported by science, and that its determinations were arbitrary and c...