Endangered Species Act

A ruling that could result in more plant and animal listings under the California Endangered Species Act will stand. The state Supreme Court on February 13 declined to review a decision by the Third District Court of Appeal, which held that “evolutionary significant units” of a species may qualify for protection, and that state officials need only consider a species’ range within California.

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The creation of a “land bank” and the subsequent sale of mitigation credits within the bank is not subject to requirements of the Subdivision Map Act, according to the attorney general’s office. » read more | add to cart

WASHINGTON _ Home builders are praising and environmentalists criticizing the Supreme Court’s decision allowing states to administer water pollution permitting programs without complying with a key provision in the federal Endangered Species Act. » read more | add to cart

WASHINGTON _ Home builders are hoping that the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn a Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that could broaden the impact of the federal Endangered Species Act on residential and commercial construction.

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When San Diego’s Multiple Species Conservation Plan (MSCP) was adopted a decade ago, then-Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt declared it “a model to the nation for how to plan for and balance the needs of man and nature.” Ambitious in geographical scale, daunting in jurisdictional complexity, the plan was intended to regulate development across nearly a quarter of the fast-urbanizing county in such a way as to minimize conflict over scores of rare, threatened or endangered species and their habitats.

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