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Environment & Clean Water Act Permitting The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a nice victory this week in Huron Mountain Club v. United States Army Corps of Engineers.  In that case, the Eagle Mine obtained permission from the State of Michigan to build a new copper mine — some of which would extend … ...

Scientific American‘s John R. Platt is at it again. In October, he had a “myth-busting” column that purported to rebut criticisms of the Endangered Species Act. But as we explained here, his arguments responded to straw men or were illogical. The reality is that the ESA is an imperfect statute that is in desperate need … ...

In the latest episode of the Obamacare saga, hundreds of thousands of insured individuals have begun receiving cancellation letters—which inform recipients that they will not be able to keep their health insurance policy.  These letters fly in the face of the promises President Obama made just a few years ago, when he famously insisted that  ...

Yesterday, PLF filed this comment letter on a regulation being jointly proposed by the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service—the federal agencies responsible for administering the Endangered Species Act. The proposal concerns a rather technical issue regarding the ESA. Although the subject of the proposal may on ...

Last year, the Sixth and Seventh Circuit Courts of Appeals both certified massive classes of consumers in a lawsuit claiming that washing machines sold by Sears and Whirlpool were defectively designed such that some of them developed a “biofilm” that resulted in musty odors.  Sears and Whirlpool filed petitions for writs of certiorari ...

On Friday, November 8, thirty-eight members of the United States House of Representatives will file an amicus brief in support of our appeal in Sissel v. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, currently pending in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.  On September 13, fourteen Congressmen notified the Court of their intent to file an ami ...

PLF continues to fight for Abigail Fisher’s right — and every student’s right — to be treated equally under the law.  We have previously blogged about our continued involvement in her case, and the University of Texas’s non-stop efforts to continue discriminating against its students.  Yesterday, the Obama Administra ...

On Monday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to remove the Inyo California towhee from the federal endangered species list.  The towhee—a small desert bird—will soon have the distinction of being numbered among the few species that have been delisted since the ESA was enacted 40 years ago. The towhee decision highlights the difficult ...

Yesterday, we noted that, thanks to a PLF petition, the Fish & Wildlife Service has proposed to delist the Inyo California towhee, a small desert-dwelling bird.  In further delisting news, the National Marine Fisheries Service has delisted the North Pacific gray whale, the first time the agency has delisted a recovered species since 1994.  Al ...