Jewell 14-377Issue: (1) Whether the United States Fish and Wildlife Service is obligated, under the Endangered Species Act, to demonstrate how a reasonable and prudent alternative to any federal agency action that is likely to jeopardize the continued existence of a protected species or adversely modify its critical habitat is economically feasible; if so, whether it can ignore the devastating impacts on the human community caused by the alternative's implementation, as the Ninth… [read post]

The following is a summary review of articles from all over the nation concerning environmental law settlements, decisions, regulatory actions and lawsuits filed during the past week. [read post]