9th Circuit OKs incidental take regs, with rework of 1 component

Alan Bailey

for Petroleum News

On March 19 a three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit issued a majority decision regarding a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service five-year incidental take regulation for the minor disturbance of polar bears and walruses in the southern Beaufort Sea and adjacent lands. The decis....

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Impact on polar bears?

Level A impacts

Impact on industrial activities