Federal Sardine Management Plan Deemed Insufficient by Judge
The National Marine Fisheries Service failed to approve a management plan for the Pacific sardine that will prevent overfishing, a federal judge in California ruled.
Jennifer Granholm features prominently as a chief seller of Biden’s climate and economic agenda this election year, crisscrossing the US promising CEOs and workers alike that a clean energy transition can create good-paying union jobs and revitalize manufacturing towns.
Restoring coastal ecosystems with oysters in Florida, protecting forests from wildfire in California and maintaining a cultural site (the Pearl Harbor National Memorial) in Hawaii: These are a few of the paid positions that job seekers can now apply for through the Biden administration’s American Climate Corps.
The federal government will have to take a harder look at environmental, social, and economic factors when picking sites for federal facilities under a final rule issued on Monday.
The Environmental Protection Agency has announced the selection of 60 recipients of $7 billion in grant awards through the Solar for All grant competition, the agency said Monday.
When Miranda Sherman’s gas furnace suddenly died during a recent cold snap, she did what most Americans would do: She searched for “furnace won’t ignite” on Google, realized the machine was beyond repair and started calling contractors first thing in the morning.
In Nevada, can a balance be struck between an endangered toad species and the pressing need to address climate change? The future of NEPA, a 54-year-old environmental law, may hold the answer.
The National Marine Fisheries Service failed to approve a management plan for the Pacific sardine that will prevent overfishing, a federal judge in California ruled.
A lower court lawfully restricted Montana’s wolf trapping season, but the restrictions covered areas beyond where evidence suggests grizzly bears might be affected, the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday.
Martin Stratte has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth in the California environmental and litigation practices in the San Francisco office, the firm said Tuesday.
A state incentive program for solar farm expansion will be limited to up to 5% of any New Jersey county’s preserved farmland, a state appellate court ruled.
A global rulemaker decided Tuesday to research just two of four proposed topics for new standard setting—biodiversity and workforce skills—as it concentrates on helping companies use existing reporting rules.
Future decisions the EPA makes about whether chemicals are so risky that their commercial uses must be restricted will be made using statutory interpretations and policies the Biden administration already has been using, according to a final rule the agency released Tuesday.
Legislation pushing
Firms operating in the UK are being advised to go through any products and services around which some sort of sustainability claim has been made, to ensure they’re not in the crosshairs of a regulatory crackdown that’s due to take effect at the end of next month.
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Bob Coffield has joined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough as a partner with the corporate practice group in Huntington, W.Va., the firm said Monday.
Gwendolyn Williamson has joined Faegre Drinker as a partner in the investment management practice group in the Washington, D.C., office, the firm said Tuesday.
The former head of the company that owned the National Enquirer told a New York jury about a 2015 meeting where he effectively became a conspirator in a plot to boost Donald Trump’s presidential campaign by squashing negative stories about his womanizing.
A derivatives attorney for Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP filed a lawsuit against Unum Group subsidiaries, saying he was wrongly denied $50,000 in monthly disability benefits on account of Covid-related ailments.
The Supreme Court suggested that it may allow a limited opportunity for US citizens to challenge a visa denial for their spouse.
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