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Save the Planet: Reform the Endangered Species Act
Opinion -Editorial -Contrary to screeching by environmentalists, the Trump admin’s changes will save both endangered species and endangered dollars. -
Proposed Endangered Species Reforms: Good but Not Good Enough
Opinion -Editorial -The 1973 Endangered Species Act (ESA) has been a costly fiasco. It has failed to protect or help revive species at risk of extinction. -
Comment to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Proposed Regulatory Revisions to the Endangered Species Act
Publication -Testimony -Comment to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Proposed Regulatory Revisions to the Endangered Species Act -
Interior Department Proposes Endangered Species Reforms
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a series of policy reforms altering how it fosters species recovery under the 1973 Endangered Species Act, to reduce conflict between species and people while enhancing species recovery. -
Federal Judge: Endangered Species Policies Responsible for Flooding, Farmers Owed Compensation
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A federal court has ruled policies enacted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to protect endangered species caused flooding of farms along the Missouri river and thus the government owes property owners compensation. -
Frog Case Highlights Dangers of and Need to Reform the Endangered Species Act
Opinion -Editorial -Various people and groups are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal of and ultimately to overturn an appellate court decision concerning the 1973 Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the dusky gopher frog. -
FWS Drops Mexican Vole from Endangered Species List
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed the Hualapai Mexican vole from the endangered species list, three decades after mistakenly listing the rodent as an endangered subspecies of Mexican vole in 1987. -
Endangered Species Act Doesn’t Save Species
Opinion -Editorial -But it does imperil property. -
Congress Targets 1973 Endangered Species Act for Improvement
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Saying the 1973 Endangered Species Act (ESA) is an expensive failure, U.S. Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Dean Heller (R-NV) and U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO) introduced legislation to revise the ESA. -
Californians Sue to Remove Gray Wolf from State’s Endangered Species List
Opinion -environment-climate-news -California Farmers and Ranchers have sued the state's Department of Fish and Wildlife claiming its listing of the gray wolf as endangered under the California Endangered Species Act was illegal. -
Scientists Urge Removal of Great Lakes Wolves from Endangered Species List
Opinion -Twenty-six wildlife management professionals and scientists signed a letter sent to the U.S. Department of the Interior urging it remove the Great Lakes gray wolf populations in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin from the Endangered Species list. -
Washington Announces Endangered Species Reforms
Opinion -Just days after the country celebrated Endangered Species Day on May 15, the Obama administration announced the first of what it promises will be number of regulatory changes to improve the efficiency, transparency and effectiveness of the four decade -
Mexican Wolf Gets Special Endangered Species Status
Opinion -More contact between wolves and humans is in store as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has decided to list Mexican gray wolves as endangered but with a special designation.Mexican gray wolves were nearly extinct 40 years ago. -
Research & Commentary: Endangered Species Act Repeal and Replace
Publication -Research and Commentaries -In 1973, Congress passed and President Richard M. Nixon signed into law the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The law is administered by the Interior Department’s U.S. -
The Anti-Endangered Species Tax (aka Estate Tax)
Opinion -Little-noticed in the debate over the estate tax, better known as the death tax because it punishes the heirs of people who have died, is the harm it does to wildlife, especially endangered species. -
FWS: Wolves No Longer Need Endangered Species Protection
Opinion -The U.S. Interior Department announced it will remove Endangered Species protection for most wolves in the lower 48 states. -
Health Insurance Companies: An Endangered Species?
Opinion -By 2020, “the American health insurance industry will be extinct,” writes Ezekiel Emanuel, on the New York Times opinion blog. -
Wind Farm May Violate Endangered Species Act
Opinion -Environmentalist groups have filed a federal lawsuit to require operators of a proposed West Virginia wind farm to obtain a “takings” permit under the Endangered Species Act before they can begin operations. -
House Passes Endangered Species Reform
Opinion -The U.S. House of Representatives on September 29 approved legislation to reform and modernize the Endangered Species Act (ESA). -
How to Fix the Endangered Species Act
Opinion -Who among us does not love warm fuzzy mammals? Some of us even like slimy reptiles and insects, and we all love critters who take to the air or swim in the sea. -
Florida Adopts New Standards for Endangered Species Listings
Opinion -The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWCC) has approved new standards for identifying and protecting species in the state. -
How to Fix the Endangered Species Act
Opinion -Who among us does not love warm fuzzy mammals? Some of us even like slimy reptiles and insects, and we all love critters who take to the air or swim in the sea. -
Endangered Species Act Hit at New Mexico Hearing
Opinion -"The Endangered Species Act (ESA) has given wildlife very little to cheer about," said Rep. Richard Pombo (R-California), chairman of the House Resources Committee, at a June 7 hearing in Carlsbad, New Mexico. -
Governors Call for Endangered Species Act Reform
Opinion -On the 30-year anniversary of the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA), the nation's governors came together in a bipartisan effort to urge more state participation in federal endangered species programs.
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