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Court Rejects Activists’ Effort to Block Border Wall Construction
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Construction of the first 40 miles of a new wall on the nation’s southern border is underway in California and New Mexico after U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel upheld waivers to various laws, including the 1973 Endangered Species Act. -
A Panacea or a Death Sentence?
Opinion -Editorial -This summer the Administration published its much-anticipated plan to modify enforcement of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). -
Legislative Pulse: Wyoming Wins Wolf, Monument Battles
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Wyoming state Sen. Bruce Burns (R-Sheridan) says Wyoming's struggles have a lot to teach the country concerning relations with the federal government over endangered species and national monuments. -
Nipping a Legal Problem in the Bud
Opinion -Editorial -Consult with all affected parties, to ensure informed endangered species and pesticide policies. -
Gophers Prompt Property Rights Battle in Washington State
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Since the Fish and Wildlife Service classified three subspecies of the pocket gophers as protected under the 1973 Endangered Species Act, Thurston County, Washington landowners’ ability to develop their property has been severely restricted. -
States Sue FWS Over ESA Habitat Changes
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Eighteen states are suing the federal government to overturn a rule expanding the government’s “critical habitat” definition for endangered species to areas which do not contain, and are not currently suitable to contain those species. -
Federal Court Supports Takings Claims for Water Rights in ESA Case
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A federal judge ruled farmers in southern Oregon and northern California could be owed compensation for the federal government cutting off irrigation water to their farms in an attempt to protect endangered species. -
FWS Removes Lesser Prairie Chicken from ESA
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Under a court order On July 20, 2016, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officially delisted the lesser prairie chicken from the Endangered Species List. -
Scientists Say Great Lakes Wolves Not At Risk
Opinion -Twenty-six wildlife management professionals and scientists signed a joint letter to the Department of the Interior, urging it remove the great lakes gray wolf populations in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin from the Endangered Species list. -
Cornyn Offers ESA Reform Bill
Opinion -Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) has introduced a bill to reform the listing procedure for the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and change the way settlements are reached when environmentalists sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to force a listing. -
Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes Declaring African Lion Threatened
Opinion -The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list the African lion as threatened under the Endangered Species Act after finding the species is in danger of extinction in the foreseeable future. -
For Once, a Court Sided With People Rather Than ‘Threatened’ Rodents
Opinion -For the first time, a federal court has struck down a regulation under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 for exceeding the government’s constitutional power. -
Feds Rule Blind Spider Not Protected by ESA
Opinion -The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has determined a blind, cave-dwelling spider does not merit protection under the Endangered Species Act. The FWS found the Warton’s Cave meshweaver, is not distinct enough from other types of spiders to merit protecting. -
Speak Up for Small Businesses, Family Farmers, Ranchers, and Energy Job Creators
Opinion -No one wants to send a species to extinction, but when a chicken that can be hunted and cooked for dinner is proposed as an endangered species, one has to question the entire program. -
Wyoming Regains Management of Wolf Population
Opinion -Wyoming wildlife officials have regained managerial control of the state’s wolf population as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has approved the removal of Wyoming wolves from federal Endangered Species Act protections. -
Man Bites Shark? Activists Seek Great White Protections
Opinion -Forget about Jaws—great white sharks have more to fear from people than the other way around, some environmental activist groups claim. They’re filing petitions to protect the ocean carnivores under California and federal endangered species laws. -
Wyoming Gov. Seeks End of ESA Protection for Yellowstone-Area Grizzlies
Opinion -Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead has sent a letter to U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar asking for the end of federal Endangered Species Act protections for grizzly bears in the Yellowstone ecosystem. -
FWS Sued for Not Delisting Recovered Beetle
Opinion -A group of California property owners and a public policy organization have filed a lawsuit to force the federal government to remove a beetle from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s endangered species list. -
Wolf Management Returned to Great Lakes States
Opinion -Wolf populations are growing in the northwestern Great Lakes region, with the federal government removing the predator from regional endangered species protections as of Jan. 27. The decision returns management of the species to the state level. -
Solar Power Encounters Head Winds from Environmentalists, Regulators
Opinion -A high-profile solar energy project in California is facing serious delays as the Obama administration’s push for renewable energy has collided with its enforcement of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). -
Montana Democrats Seek State Control of Wolf Populations
Opinion -Jon Tester and Max Baucus, Democratic Senators representing Montana, are fighting an August 5 federal court decision that restored gray wolves to the U.S. Interior Department’s list of endangered species. -
Cold Temperatures Devastate Florida Marine Life
Opinion -The devastating cold fronts and snowstorms that mercilessly pounded residents of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast this winter have devastated marine ecosystems and endangered species in Florida that depend on warm weather. -
Environmentalists Oppose Mojave Desert Solar Power
Opinion -Environmental groups advocating for land conservation and protection of endangered species are lining up in opposition to measures to expedite solar energy projects on federal lands, particularly in the Mojave Desert, announced by Interior Department -
Alaska Governor Fights Polar Bear ESA Listing
Opinion -Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) is leading a legal challenge against the U.S. Interior Department’s May 14 decision to list polar bears as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
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