March 14, 2016
The federal government should not have used predictions about the effects of climate change to classify a ringed seal subspecies as "threatened," an Alaska federal judge said Friday, less than two years after he tossed a similar rule for bearded seals.
October 13, 2015
The federal government on Friday asked an Alaska federal judge to toss a challenge to its decision to list the Arctic ringed seal as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.