Opinion
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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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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 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. -
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. -
The Great American Outdoors Act
Opinion -Editorial -This crown jewel of the Trump Administration’s environmental record will bring many benefits -
Activist Junk Science Breeds Bad Policy
Opinion -Editorial -Banning neonic pesticides in wildlife refuges would hurt birds, bees, other wildlife and people. -
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. -
President Trump Acts to Free Up Water for Western Farmers
Opinion -environment-climate-news -President Donald Trump signed a memorandum slashing federal environmental regulations which limit and slow the delivery of water and hydroelectric power in the Western states, including California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington state.