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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. -
Pombo Calls for Changes to Endangered Species Act
Opinion -House Resources Committee Chairman Richard Pombo (R-California) marked the 30th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) by pledging to introduce incremental changes designed to facilitate cooperation between citizen-landowners and the federal -
Endangered Species Listings May Backfire
Opinion -New research confirms that Endangered Species Act listings do not necessarily help--and may even harm--rare species on private lands. -
Western states facing new endangered species inquiries
Opinion -Environmental groups have begun pressing the case of three western species they claim are in danger due to human development. The new actions have the potential to create a severe impact on economies up and down the Pacific coast. -
Endangered Species Act hits Klamath again
Opinion -Having just lost their water supplies to endangered sucker fish, residents of the Klamath River basin and much of the Pacific Northwest took another hit May 31 as a federal appeals court shut down logging in much of California, Oregon, and Washington. -
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Commentary: Reforming the Endangered Species Act
Opinion -The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is a wonderfully idealistic law apparently written by people who had absolutely no idea how society works. Few could disagree with the law's noble and uplifting goals. -
Campaign Launched to Add Millions of Prairie Dogs to Endangered Species List
Opinion -School children, always eager to befriend warm and fuzzy animals, are now being recruited by environmentalists and a major corporation to come to the defense of the prolific and destructive prairie dog. -
Fish And Wildlife Service Chooses To Not List 25 Species As Endangered
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The United States Fish and Wildlife Service announced on October 5 it will not list the Pacific walrus or 24 other species as threatened or endangered under the 1973 Endangered Species Act. -
What about Earth’s threatened and endangered People?
Opinion -Another Earth Day has come and gone – number 57, like Heinz steak sauce. Once again, the media, activists and international agencies fed us pablum, exaggeration and alarmism. -
Climate Change Weekly #514: 🦇 Evidence Mounts that Green Tech Is Wiping Out Species 🐦
Opinion -I and other Heartland Institute scholars have written before about the bird, bat, and marine mammals that industrial wind is killing around the world. -
How Much is an Endangered Fish Worth?
Opinion -The big money now is in endangered species – not to purchase them for aquariums (that would be illegal), but to recover them in the wild. -
PRESS RELEASE: Public Interest Groups File Comments to Protect Endangered Right Whale from Offshore Virginia Wind Project
Opinion -Press Release -Noise from turbines will add to ship collisions that already have pushed the North Atlantic right whale to edge of extinction -
Proposed Virginia Wind Facility Threatens Endangered Whales
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #448 -
PRESS RELEASE: Public Interest Groups Hire Counsel to Protect Endangered Right Whale from Offshore Virginia Wind Project
Opinion -Press Release -“With only a little more than 300 right whales alive today, this endangered species is in dire need of protection, and the Virginia Wind Project lies directly in their annual migration path.” -
Threat to Endangered Whales Gets LOUDER
Opinion -Editorial -The issue is Wind versus Whales. Save the Whales. We do not need the offshore wind power. -
Virginia’s Offshore Wind Proposal Threatens Endangered Whales
Opinion -Editorial -The massive offshore wind (OSW) project proposed by Dominion Energy may pose a serious threat to the endangered North Atlantic Right Whale population. -
Trump Administration Promotes Species Conservation with New Rules
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service released final regulations aimed at improving implementation of the 1973 Endangered Species Act to protect threatened and endangered species while strengthening pr -
Trump Administration ESA Reforms Emphasize Species at Most Risk
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Department of the Interior unveiled regulations guiding how the 46-year-old Endangered Species Act will be carried out, aimed at reducing costs and focusing scarce agency resources on recovering species most at risk of disappearing. -
Feds Investigate Arizona Wind Farm for Killing Protected Species
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Federal authorities have opened a criminal investigation of a southern Arizona wind farm for the deaths of an endangered bat and a federally protected golden eagle. -
Border Grizzlies Should Be Classified as Endangered Under ESA, Judge Rules
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A federal district judge ruled the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service should list a small population of grizzly bears along the Canada-United States border as endangered under the 1973 Endangered Species Act. -
Yellowstone Grizzly Bears No Longer Endangered, Interior Dept. Declares
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is removing the Yellowstone Grizzly Bear from the endangered species list, turning over management of grizzly bears to the states in the region. -
Court Upholds ESA Land Grabs Made to Protect Species Not Living on Private Property
Opinion -environment-climate-news -In an endangered species case a U.S. Court of Appeals decided the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could list as private property that contains no members of a protected species as critical habitat. -
Interior Dept. Announces New Policy for Species Protection Agreements
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Department of the Interior developed a new policy guidance on how federal authorities should work with private landowners to prevent the decline of wildlife populations absent adding species to the federal endangered or threatened species list.
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