JD Supra

Endangered Species Act: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Finalizes Rule to Rescind Definition for the Term "Habitat"

On Friday, June 24, 2022, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (the Service) finalized a rule rescinding the regulatory definition of “habitat,” as the term was used in the Endangered Species Act (the Act ...
Fast Company

Why changing the Endangered Species Act’s definition of ‘harm’ would undo key protections

It wouldn’t make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down, or to bar killing endangered salmon while allowing a dam to dry out their ...
E&E

Feds overturn Trump-era endangered species ‘habitat’ definition

Now, critical habitat can include areas where a protected species doesn’t live but could find hospitable. The Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries today rescinded a Trump-era definition of ...
OPB

How proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act could affect salmon, other species in Oregon and beyond

Dave Miller: This is Think Out Loud on OPB. I’m Dave Miller. The Trump administration is proposing to change the definition of “harm” under the regulation of the Endangered Species Act. For decades ...
JD Supra

Definition of Harm/Endangered Species Act: United States Fish and Wildlife Service Proposed Rule

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service (collectively, “Service”) is proposing to rescind the regulatory definition of “harm” in the Endangered Species ...
PBS

Invasive Species Definition

Lauren Kinsman-Costello defines what it means when a species is non-native or invasive. Lauren Kinsman-Costello, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Kent State University, defines what it ...