May 18, 2017
The Ninth Circuit on Thursday rejected an environmental group's challenge to the U.S. Department of the Interior's approval of First Solar Inc.'s project in Nevada, finding no fault with the government's assessment that the effort would not adversely affect the local desert tortoise population's habitat.
February 29, 2016
A Nevada county has urged the Ninth Circuit to uphold a California federal judge's ruling that the U.S. Department of Interior sufficiently protected an endangered desert tortoise in its review of a First Solar Inc. project, saying the agency properly took into account local efforts to protect the species.
December 10, 2015
An environmental group looking to protect a threatened tortoise from a First Solar Inc. project told the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday that a lower court shouldn't have found that unspecified future remedial actions were sufficient to protect the species.