On October 4, 2021, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service revoked a rule issued in the waning days of the Trump administration that had limited the scope of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act’s (MBTA) enforcement provisions.[1] The prior rule, issued in January 2021, limited the MBTA’s definition of prohibited “take” of covered birds to only […]
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On June 15th, 2021, federal district judge Terry A. Doughty from the Western District of Louisiana granted an injunction sought by several states to block the implementation of Executive Order 14008 issued by President Biden in his first week of office in an effort to pause new oil and gas leasing on public lands and […]
Related Practice Areas: Federal Lands, Energy and Natural Resources Just before leaving office, President Trump signed two pieces of legislation aimed at incentivizing renewable energy development: the Energy Act of 2020 and the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of 2020. See Pub. L. No. 116-260, Division Z (Energy Act) and EE (Taxpayer Act). […]
