The Ninth Circuit this week upheld a National Marine Fisheries Service decision to list the Pacific bearded seal as threatened under the Endangered Species Act based primarily on threats from climate change, reversing a...more
10/28/2016
/ Administrative Procedure Act ,
Agency Deference ,
Appeals ,
Arbitrary and Capricious ,
Climate Change ,
Critical Habitat ,
Endangered Species Act (ESA) ,
ESA Listings ,
Evidence ,
National Marine Fisheries Service ,
Reversal
Shell Gulf of Mexico, Inc., v. Center for Biological Diversity, (11/12/14, No. 13-35835)
The Ninth Circuit has rejected a “novel litigation strategy” that Shell Gulf of Mexico, Inc., employed in an effort to preempt a...more