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Author: Reed Hopper From the Real Estate, Land Use and Environmental Law Blog, we have the following update: "On December 29, 2009, the California Natural Resources Agency ('Resources Agency') adopted amendments to the guidelines implementing the California Environmental Quality Act ('CEQA').  The amendments were filed wi ...

Author:  Damien M. Schiff Recently, I visited the San Diego Zoo.  While passing through the Zoo's polar bear exhibit, I came across the display below:  a not-so-subtle endorsement of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's listing of the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act. A quick bit of internet research revea ...

Richard Fields of the Pacific Legal Foundation will speak to the Humboldt Republican Women Federated at the Elks Lodge, 445 Herrick Ave. Eureka at Noon on Thursday, 6/17/2010.  He will discuss regulatory and legislative initiatives designed to control climate by controlling carbon dioxide emissions.  Included in his di ...

Author: Brandon Middleton Nossaman's Robert Horton summarizes a recent Yale Environment 360 article by Todd Woody on attempts to use the Endangered Species Act to"ease the impact of global warming on numerous animals and plants": As Mr. Woody notes in his article . . . listing decisions have been spurred by petitions and lawsuits file ...

Author:  Damien M. Schiff This week, a collection of energy companies requested the Supreme Court to review the Second Circuit's decision in Connecticut v. American Electric Power Co.  The plaintiffs are a collection of eight states, the City of New York, and three private land trusts, who have brought public nuisance claims a ...

Author:  Damien M. Schiff Last week, the LA Times Greenspace blog quoted me on the Center for Biological Diversity's petition to list the San Bernardino Mountains flying squirrel.  The petition argues that the squirrel will lose habitat owing to global warming.  The petition's theory is basically the same as th ...

Author: Reed Hopper On October 21, the day after the first hearing on the listing challenge to the polar bear, the Pacific Legal Foundation and the Heritage Foundation co-sponsored a panel discussion on the polar bear, the Endangered Species Act, and the implications for our country.    The United States Fish and Wildlife Service, at & ...

Author:  Luke A. Wake In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, a lawsuit was filed against a handful of energy companies for their contributions to "global warming," on the theory that those companies had somehow made the hurricane worse by emitting greenhouse gases. These litigants argued that those emissions were unreasonable, despite th ...

Author:  Damien M. Schiff This week PLF filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court in support of the petitioners in American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut.  The case concerns whether federal courts can hear public nuisance cases that are based on the greenhouse gas emissions of large energy companies.  The Connec ...