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Vol. 21, No. 12 Week of March 20, 2016
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry


Court tosses ringed seal ESA listing

District Court judge says Fisheries Service was arbitrary in declaring healthy population threatened under long-term climate model

ALAN BAILEY

Petroleum News

Federal District Court Judge Ralph Beistline has upheld appeals against the National Marine Fisheries Service’s 2012 listing of the Arctic ringed seal as threatened under the terms of the Endangered Species Act. Beistline has remanded the listing decision to the Fisheries Service for the “correction....

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Sea ice decline

Impact of listing

Court decision

Inadequate evidence


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