Environmental
Dec. 4, 2012
Judge favor government's efforts to protect green sturgeon fish
A judge ruled against the building industry's bid to reduce the vast territory the federal government designated to protect the imperiled green sturgeon fish.
By Fiona Smith
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The building industry lost its bid Friday to reduce the vast territory the federal government designated to protect the imperiled green sturgeon fish. San Francisco District Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service had properly considered the economic impacts of its habitat designation under the Endangered Species Act. In 2009, the government set aside more than 11,000 square miles of waters and coas...
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