Sage grouse lawsuits may be just the beginning

RBC I Last month’s long-awaited decision about the greater sage grouse – that it does not need Endangered Species Act protections – was no surprise to anyone who’s been following the bird’s saga. The federal Fish and Wildlife Service was looking for every reason possible to avoid putting the wide-ranging bird on the ESA list because of the potential impact a listing would have on energy production and development across huge swaths of the West.