Center for Biological Diversity v. Burgum

Center for Biological Diversity and Miami Waterkeeper filed a lawsuit in federal district court for the Southern District of Florida to compel the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to publish a final determination on its proposed rule to list the Miami cave crayfish as threatened. FWS proposed to list the species in a September 20, 2023 notice; the Endangered Species Act requires that a final determination be published within one year of the proposed rule. Citing the proposed rule, the complaint alleged that the primary threat to the species is “saltwater intrusion into the freshwater aquifer resulting from sea level rise, more frequent tidal flooding, and storms of increasing intensity.”