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PLF sends dilatory Service notice of a lawsuit threequel

June 05, 2017 | By JOHANNA TALCOTT

What does it take to get the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to follow the law? For the citizens of Bonner County, Idaho, and members of the Idaho State Snowmobile Association, the answer is AT LEAST one petition, two formal comment letters, and three federal lawsuits. That’s ridiculous! … ...

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PLF comments on caribou critical habitat

May 19, 2016 | By JONATHAN WOOD

This week, PLF filed comments, joined by Bonner County, Idaho and the Idaho State Snowmobile Association (ISSA), on the Service’s proposed critical habitat designation for the woodland caribou. The comment argues that the Service must address changes in the species’ status, which were brought about by a PLF petition challenging the earl ...

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PLF comments on caribou downlisting

June 26, 2014 | By JONATHAN WOOD

This week, PLF filed a comment letter on behalf of Bonner County and the Idaho State Snowmobile Association addressing the proposed downlisting of the caribou. The impetus for the Service’s decision was a petition that PLF filed two years ago explaining that the original listing violated the Endangered Species Act. PLF had to file not … ...

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PLF files suit over caribou petition, the sequel

March 14, 2014 | By JONATHAN WOOD

PLF attorneys, once again, filed a federal lawsuit in Idaho today because the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to properly respond to a petition that asks the agency to remove the Southern Selkirk Mountain Caribou Population from the endangered species list. The Endangered Species Act requires the Service to respond to petitions in two stages ...

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PLF files suit over caribou petition

November 15, 2012 | By BRIAN HODGES

PLF attorneys filed a federal lawsuit in Idaho today because the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to respond to a petition that asks the agency to remove the Southern Selkirk Mountain Caribou Population from the endangered species list.  PLF submitted the petition last May on behalf of Bonner County and the Idaho State Snowmobile … ...

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And anyway . . . where is the environmental threat?

January 21, 2012 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

As pointed out in a previous post, one of the main arguments being put forward by the pro-EPA crowd in PLF’s case, Sackett v. EPA, is that Compliance Orders are necessary for the EPA to “promptly respond” to environmental harms, and that tying the EPA up in litigation would necessarily undermine EPA’s ability to save … ...