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Columbia Law School Center for Climate Change Law: Green vs. Green: Litigation For and Against Solar Power in California
Posted on 23 Jun 2011 by LexisNexis Environmental Law Community Staff

By Laura Mulry, Fellow, Center for Climate Change, Columbia Law School April 2011 was an eventful month for massive solar projects in California and their unlikely opponent: the desert tortoise. As climate change, overpopulation, and development place... Read More

Occupancy by humans of the Americas is pushed back further
Posted on 26 Jun 2011 by Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.

Prior posts have noted the slowly mounting evidence that the "Clovis first" hypothesis is flawed (that is, that people with a uniquely sophisticated fluted blade were the first human occupants of North America and came to North America between... Read More

Keystone Pipeline Could Push Endangered Whooping Crane Into Extinction
Posted on 7 Sep 2011 by Leda Huta

Leda Huta, Executive Director, Endangered Species Coalition If you were to choose a route through which to move toxic, highly corrosive, sludgy crude oil, would you place it on the same narrow corridor used by one of the world's most endangered... Read More

Good News for the Sage Grouse
Posted on 31 Jul 2014 by Dianne Saxe

As we have written before , the Greater Sage Grouse is on the verge of extinction, likely due to habitat loss related oil and gas development. Prompted by litigation , the federal government finally issued an Emergency Order to protect the grouse in December... Read More

Canada Lags US In Protecting Endangered Sage-Grouse
Posted on 2 Sep 2014 by Dianne Saxe

By Meredith James In July, the US Fish and Wildlife Service launched a website to “communicate the breadth of the ongoing conservation actions underway to support Greater Sage-Grouse and the sage brush habitat the bird and 350 other species need... Read More

Wildlife Is on the Losing End of Our Addiction to Fossil Fuels
Posted on 30 Jan 2012 by Leda Huta

No matter how we try to minimize fossil fuel impacts, we can't avoid the fact that these substances are inherently dirty. Oil, gas and coal are at their core, toxic substances. And as a result they are dangerous to humans and wildlife. The ten... Read More

Why Do the New House Republicans Hate the Bald Eagle?
Posted on 28 Jul 2011 by Leda Huta

Leda Huta, Executive Director, Endangered Species Coalition In 1973, Richard Nixon, a Republican president, didn't just sign the U.S. Endangered Species Act into law. His administration played a very large role in actually crafting this forward... Read More

Marten Law: Proposed Rule Would Limit Extent of Economic Impacts Considered in ESA Critical Habitat Designations
Posted on 5 Nov 2012 by Jessica K Ferrell

By Jessica K. Ferrell, Partner, Marten Law PLLC Excerpt from the Commentary: In this Emerging Issues Analysis, Jessica Ferrell of Marten Law PLLC discusses a proposed rule that would require the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries... Read More

Recent California Decisions Favor Solar Developers Over Environment
Posted on 28 Jun 2011 by LexisNexis Emerging Issues Community Staff

By Laura Mulry, Fellow, Center for Climate Change, Columbia Law School April 2011 was an eventful month for massive solar projects in California and their unlikely opponent: the desert tortoise. As climate change, overpopulation, and development place... Read More

Wildlife Is on the Losing End of Our Addiction to Fossil Fuels
Posted on 30 Jan 2012 by Leda Huta

No matter how we try to minimize fossil fuel impacts, we can't avoid the fact that these substances are inherently dirty. Oil, gas and coal are at their core, toxic substances. And as a result they are dangerous to humans and wildlife. The ten... Read More

Why Do the New House Republicans Hate the Bald Eagle?
Posted on 28 Jul 2011 by Leda Huta

Leda Huta, Executive Director, Endangered Species Coalition In 1973, Richard Nixon, a Republican president, didn't just sign the U.S. Endangered Species Act into law. His administration played a very large role in actually crafting this forward... Read More

Keystone Pipeline Could Push Endangered Whooping Crane Into Extinction
Posted on 7 Sep 2011 by Leda Huta

Leda Huta, Executive Director, Endangered Species Coalition If you were to choose a route through which to move toxic, highly corrosive, sludgy crude oil, would you place it on the same narrow corridor used by one of the world's most endangered... Read More

Columbia Law School Center for Climate Change Law: Green vs. Green: Litigation For and Against Solar Power in California
Posted on 23 Jun 2011 by LexisNexis Environmental Law Community Staff

By Laura Mulry, Fellow, Center for Climate Change, Columbia Law School April 2011 was an eventful month for massive solar projects in California and their unlikely opponent: the desert tortoise. As climate change, overpopulation, and development... Read More

What killed off much of the explosion of life following the Cambrian "explosion"?
Posted on 5 Feb 2011 by Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.

Prior posts have discussed the Cambrian explosion, and noted the evidence suggesting that it was a more gradual process than stereotypically described. However, there has been little solid evidence to explain why, following this alleged burst of complex... Read More

Occupancy by humans of the Americas is pushed back further
Posted on 26 Jun 2011 by Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.

Prior posts have noted the slowly mounting evidence that the "Clovis first" hypothesis is flawed (that is, that people with a uniquely sophisticated fluted blade were the first human occupants of North America and came to North America between... Read More