Center for Biological Diversity v. Haaland

Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club filed a petition for review in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the biological opinions prepared pursuant to the Endangered Species Act regarding a liquefied natural gas project (LNG) in Alaska. In their announcement of the lawsuit, the organizations said federal agencies failed to fully examine and mitigate the project’s harms to polar bears, Cook Inlet beluga whales, and North Pacific right whales.