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"More protection, less red tape" . . . yeah, right.

August 21, 2008

Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

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endangeredspecies, endangeredspeciesact, globalwarming, polarbears, selfconsultation

Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne has a wildly misleading op-ed in USA Today about his proposed regulatory changes to the Endangered Species Act.  The Secretary makes it sound like his sole concern when proposing these changes was preventing the...continued

A giant step backwards for wildlife

August 11, 2008

Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
bushadministration, endangeredspecies, endangeredspeciesact, regulations, selfconsultation

Ahhh, the Bush Administration.  Today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service announced that they are going to propose new regulatory changes to the Endangered Species Act that will dramatically weaken provisions of the law...continued

Andrew Wetzler
Andrew Wetzler
Director, Endangered Species Project
Chicago
I grew up in New York City but spent my summers canoeing and hiking in...
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