The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service (together, the “Services”) recently issued a proposed rule adding a definition of “habitat” to the regulations implementing ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service are proposing to define “habitat” in the Endangered Species Act for the first time, in response to a 2018 Supreme Court decision. As ...

The Departments of Commerce and the Interior (Departments) have completed a proposed rule to define the term “habitat” as that term is used in the context of designating “critical habitat” under ...

Now, critical habitat can include areas where a protected species doesn’t live but could find hospitable. The Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries today rescinded a Trump-era definition of ...

The administration rescinded a Trump-era decision that made it much harder to protect endangered wildlife, but advocates say the White House needs to do more. Reading time 2 minutes A little bit of ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Trump administration is proposing to define what land and water can be declared as “habitat” for imperiled plants and animals — potentially excluding areas that species ...