I’m posting a brief tribute to Rich Guadagno, a Fish and Wildlife Service refuge manager (and enforcement agent) who died on United Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001. A New Jersey native, Guadagno was the only passenger who actually had been trained as a law enforcement agent, and was known for his fearlessness, as when […]
Message from Editor/Publisher Steve Davies I regret to inform you that I have decided to stop publishing Endangered Species & Wetlands Report. This decision did not come easily, but after failing for too long to meet a monthly publication schedule for the newsletter and neglecting (for the most part) to send out invoices, publication simply […]
Critical habitat for the Riverside fairy shrimp was upheld by U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson today. The ruling came in a challenge from landowners who want to build a recycling center and landfill on 57 acres in San Diego County. The judge found that the Fish and Wildlife Service’s economic analysis and NEPA determination […]
PRESS RELEASE, 11/10/15 Interior Department, State of California Announce Innovative Strategy for Renewable Energy and Conservation on Public Lands in California Desert Renewable energy milestone continues to advance Administration’s clean energy goals in push toward Paris climate discussions WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and California Secretary for Natural Resources John Laird […]
About one-third in “poor” condition Link to full report; executive summary below
Scroll down for email cancelling webinars, the description of one of the webinars, and emails from within NRCS about the need for the training. A Natural Resources Conservation Service official cancelled two webinars last year on the risks of neonicotinoid insecticides to aquatic ecosystems and pollinators, saying the topics were “not appropriate” for an NRCS-sponsored […]
After debating today, the Senate voted against closing debate on S. 1140, Sen. John Barrasso’s Water Quality Protection Act, meaning that senators will not take up the bill. They could move on to a resolution of disapproval of the Administration’s Clean Water Rule (aka WOTUS).
In the latest development in the WOTUS wars. a panel of federal judges has declined to move all the outstanding cases to the District of Columbia District Court, as requested by the Environmental Protection Agency. That leaves nine cases active in seven districts. (See the order below for a list of those cases.) “On the […]
In the latest development in the WOTUS wars. a panel of federal judges has declined to move all the outstanding cases to the District of Columbia District Court, as requested by the Environmental Protection Agency. That leaves nine cases active in seven districts. (See the order below for a list of those cases.) “On the […]
In 2-1 ruling, appeals court says a nationwide stay “honors the policy of cooperative federalism that informs the Clean Water Act” The Sixth Circuit has stayed implementation of the “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule (or, as EPA would have it, the Clean Water Rule). The two judges in the majority were Circuit Judges […]