[env-trinity] Supreme Court limits Endangered Species Act: Habitat must contain endangered species

[Tom Stokely]

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-court-endangered-20181127-story.htmlSupreme Court limits Endangered Species Act: Habitat must contain endangered speciesBy DAVID G. SAVAGENOV 27, 2018 | 7:35 AM | WASHINGTON  A guard stands outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson / Getty Images)The Supreme Court in a unanimous decision on Tuesday limited the reach of the Endangered Species Act, ruling that the government can designate a protected “habitat” only in areas where a threatened animal now lives.
The justices set aside a ruling that restricted development in a wooded area in Louisiana where an endangered frog could live. But in fact, the roughly 100 remaining dusky gopher frogs live only in a wooded area nearby in Mississippi.



Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said the “critical habitat” of an endangered species “must also be a habitat” now.

The ruling is a victory for Weyerhaeuser and other development companies that challenged the broad habitat protections imposed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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