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🌍USPTO Terminates Climate Change Mitigation Pilot Program

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO or Office) is terminating the Climate Change Mitigation Pilot Program.

⚡Executive Order 14260

Executive Order 14260 emphasizes the administration's commitment to promoting American energy dominance by combating state-level regulations that hinder domestic energy resource development. It highlights challenges posed by policies aimed at climate change and establishes directives for the Attorney General to identify and oppose unconstitutional state laws that threaten energy production. The goal is to ensure a reliable and affordable energy supply across the nation.

🌊Withdrawal of Key U.S. Offshore Areas from Oil Leasing Regulations

🦋Proposed Listing of Bleached Sandhill Skipper as Endangered

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), propose to list the bleached sandhill skipper (Polites sabuleti sinemaculata), an insect subspecies from Humboldt County, Nevada, as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). This determination also serves as our 12-month finding on a petition to list the bleached sandhill skipper. After a review of the best available scientific and commercial information, we find that listing the subspecies is warranted. Accordingly, we propose to list the bleached sandhill skipper as an endangered species under the Act. If we finalize this rule as proposed, the final rule would add this subspecies to the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and extend the Act's protections to the subspecies. We find that a designation of critical habitat for the bleached sandhill skipper is not determinable at this time.