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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;">Michael Doyle, E&E News, Green Wire – E&E News</span><o:p style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></o:p><br>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Biden administration is appealing a federal judge’s order that the Fish and Wildlife Service consider extending Endangered Species Act protections to the venerable
Joshua tree. In a bare-bones filing yesterday, the government announced it was appealing a Sept. 20 trial court ruling to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The move challenges what had been a notable legal victory for environmentalists (</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><i><a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubscriber.politicopro.com%2Farticle%2Feenews%2F2021%2F09%2F22%2Fcourt-orders-feds-to-reconsider-protections-for-joshua-trees-280930%3Fsource%3Demail&data=04%7C01%7Cmargaret_park%40fws.gov%7C7b7676dd03c34e2dc52908d9b9d2be21%7C0693b5ba4b184d7b9341f32f400a5494%7C0%7C0%7C637745137050379369%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=FWE%2F%2F8P0ZYNuELZ%2FOwmyFTaN7cW8l3Rl3b6bn4yF8ns%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" title="Original URL: https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2021/09/22/court-orders-feds-to-reconsider-protections-for-joshua-trees-280930?source=email. Click or tap if you trust this link." data-auth="Verified" data-linkindex="0"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Greenwire</span></a></i></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">,
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;">Link to article: https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2021/12/07/biden-admin-appeals-order-on-joshua-tree-protections-283996?source=email</span><o:p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></o:p></p>
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