Cozen O'Connor | USA | 20 Apr 2023
The AGs of Texas, Kansas, and Oklahoma filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFW) and…
Troutman Pepper | USA | 24 Feb 2023
On February 8, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) proposed regulatory changes (Proposed Rule) focused on the application and approval process…
Beveridge & Diamond PC | USA | 14 Feb 2023
Securing Endangered Species Act (ESA) incidental take and other voluntary permits often requires so much time and money that their many compliance…
Mayer Brown | USA | 3 Feb 2023
On March 31, 2023, a final rule reclassifying the northern long-eared bat (“NLEB”) from “threatened” to “endangered” under the US Endangered Species…
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP | USA | 12 Dec 2022
The lesser prairie-chicken (LPC) is a grouse that occupies a five-state range, including the western areas of Kansas and Oklahoma, the Texas…
Sidley Austin LLP | USA | 6 Dec 2022
On November 30, 2022, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) published a Final Rule reclassifying the northern long-eared bat as an endangered…
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP | USA | 22 Sep 2022
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (the “Service”) published a proposed rule listing the tricolored bat as an endangered species under the Endangered…
Nossaman LLP | USA | 14 Sep 2022
On September 14, 2022, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) published a proposed rule to list the tricolored bat (Perimyotis subflavus)…
Sidley Austin LLP | USA | 30 Jun 2022
On Friday, June 24, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service issued a final rule rescinding the agencies’ regulatory…
Holland & Knight LLP | USA | 8 Jun 2022
In Environmental Defense Center et al. V. BOEM et al (No. 19-55526), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on June 3, 2022, invalidated the…