Endangered Species Act

Creating a Legacy on Endangered Species Day

Jeffrey Flocken | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Endangered Species Day, Endangered Animals, Esa, Conservation, Endangered Species, Endangered Species Act, African Lions, Dc Impact, Wiild Animals, Green News

Endangered Species Day provides an opportunity for people of all ages to learn about the efforts that are currently underway to preserve our world's wildlife populations and discover how they can help.

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Not the Change Polar Bears Need: President Obama's Polar Bear Extinction Plan

Kassie Siegel | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Polar Bears, Polar Bear, Endangered Species, Alaska, Polar Bears Endangered, North Pole, Endangered Species Act, Arctic, Green News

More than two-thirds of these amazing animals, including all the polar bears in Alaska, will likely be gone by 2050. So it boggles the mind that the Obama administration announced plans to reissue a Bush-era regulation that limits protections for polar bears under the Endangered Species Act.

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Frogs Need More Than a Kiss

Noah Greenwald | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Endangered Species, Extinction, Amphibians, Environmental Protection Agency, Frogs, Endangered Species Act, Reptiles, Green News

Under a mounting barrage of environmental pressures, one in four amphibian species in the United States are now imperiled and worldwide, and 122 species have gone extinct since 1980.

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Latest Death of Hawaiian Monk Seal a Troubling Sign for This Rare Marine Mammal

Miyoko Sakashita | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Hawaiian Monk Seal, Endangered Species, Hawaii, Oceans, Monk Seal, Monk Seal Endangered, Monk Seal Dead, Hawaiian Beaches, Endangered Species Act, Green News

When so much is at risk, the way forward must be vigilance from the community local and afar to respect Hawaiian monk seals and ensure their survival. We must all be part of that effort -- and halting these killings is an important first step.

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Proposed Wildlife Policy Draws Fire

Reuters | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Endangered Animals, Video, u.s. Wildlife Policy, Endangered Species Act Changes, Wildlife Policy, Endangered Species, Animals, Animal Policy, Endangered Species Act, Reuters, Green News

By Steve Gorman and Laura Zuckerman March 8 (Reuters) - Dozens of conservation groups and nearly 100 scientists voiced opposition on T...

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Don't Close the Gate on Endangered Species Protection

Noah Greenwald | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Obama Administration, Endangered Species, Environmental Policy, Endangered Species Act, Green News

What if the bald eagle had never made it onto the endangered species list in 1967?

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Top 10 Reasons to Support Clean Energy

Maj. Gen. Michael R. Lehnert | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Endangered Animals, Oil Spill, Fossil Fuels, Extinction, Clean Energy, Endangered Species, Gulf Oil Spill, Endangered Species Act, Green News

Though almost every American uses fossil fuels in our daily lives, we need to recognize the incredible toll it has had on our foreign policy, our country, its people and irreplaceable natural resources. It's not too late to change, and move toward an energy-efficient and renewable energy economy.

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Species Endangered, But Not According To The U.S.?

| Posted 12.16.2011

Read More: Endangered Species Act Exemptions, Endangered Animals, Video, Threatened Species, Conservation, Endangered Species, Extinct Species, Animals, Endangered Species Act, Green News

By Rose Eveleth (Click here for original article.) In the last few months the Western black rhino and the South Florida Rainbow Snake have gone ex...

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Why We Need to Protect the Soul of South Florida

Frank Mazzotti | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Everglades, Clean Air Act, Protecting the Everglades, South Florida Everglades, Clean Water Act, Epa, Everglades-Restoration, Endangered Species Act, Everglades Ecosystem, Miami News

Protect our environment and our economy, restore the Everglades. It simply makes good business sense to do so.

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The Value of Conserving Wildlife

Jamie Rappaport Clark | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Environment, Esa, Congress, Wildlife, Wildlife Conservation, Anti-Environmentalism, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environmental Legislation, Endangered Species Act, Politics News

Before the August recess, no fewer than 13 different proposals had been introduced to limit the federal government's ability to protect endangered species. Since Congress returned, another four have been added to the list.

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Hundreds Of Endangered Plants, Animals Up For New Protections

AP | MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Endangered Animals, Golden-Winged Warbler, Kangaroo Rat, Species, American Eel, Obama Administration, Gopher Tortoise, Endangered Species, Animals, Endangered Species Act, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Green News

BILLINGS, Mont. — The Obama administration is taking steps to extend new federal protections to a list of imperiled animals and plants that read...

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New Hope for Some of America's Most Fascinating (and Imperiled) Species

Kieran Suckling | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Endangered Species, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Act, Extinction, Mass Extinction, Green News

A perfect natural laboratory, the Southeast is the world's center of aquatic biodiversity, with more species of freshwater mussels, snails and crayfish than anywhere else on Earth. Unfortunately, it's also been an epicenter of extinction.

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Commentary on Comments: Wolves, Pipelines, and Dams, Oh My

Bill Chameides | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: u.s. Department of State, Nebraska, Transcanada, Air Quality, Texas, Keystone XL, U.S. Department of the Interior, South Dakota, Public Comment Period, Endangered Species Act, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Idaho, Air Toxics, Sheila Jackson Lee, Montana, Oklahoma, Wyoming, U.S. Congress, Federal Register, Keystone Species, Klamath River, Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, Endangered Species, Wyoming Wolf Recovery Program, Air Pollution, Greg Abbott, Environmental Protection Agency, Gray Wolf, Kansas, Green News

Everyone has something to say about something these days, on blogs, Twitter and Facebook. All fine and dandy. But there's another way to get heard: by putting your two cents on the record through what's known as the public comment period.

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A Dangerous Predator Or A Threatened Species?

The Huffington Post | James Gerken | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Montana, Hunting, Wolves, Endangered Species, Idaho, Wyoming, Animals, Wolf, Endangered Species Act, Video, Green News

Should wolves really be hunted? The fate of the wolf population in several western U.S. states remains uncertain. In time for a planned wolf huntin...

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Researchers Pay For Alaska Sea Lion Intrusion

AP | By DAN JOLING | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association, Sea Lions, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Noaa, Steller Sea Lions, Endangered Species, Alaska, Animals, Alaska Sea Lion Intrusion, Endangered Species Act, Green News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A science consortium has agreed to a civil penalty of $9,000 for intruding into Alaska waters that were declared off-limits to pr...

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Keystone Pipeline Could Push Endangered Whooping Crane Into Extinction

Leda Huta | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Endangered Species, Endangered Species Act, Keystone XL Pipeline, Whooping-Cranes-Population, Keystone Pipeline, Green News

If you were to choose a route through which to move toxic, highly corrosive, sludgy crude oil, would you place it on the same narrow corridor used by one of the world's most endangered birds?

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Latest ESA Success: The Return of a Once-rare Snake

Kieran Suckling | Posted 11.01.2011

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The Endangered Species Act has notched yet another success story: the return of the Lake Erie water snake.

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Rural County Seeks End To 15-Year-Old Trout Case

AP | By SCOTT SONNER | Posted 10.28.2011

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RENO, Nev. -- Never one to back down from a fight with the U.S. government, northern Nevada's rural Elko County has been feuding with federal land man...

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Fuel Your Car With Alligator Fat?

David Mizejewski | Posted 10.21.2011

Read More: Farming, Bidiesel, Biofuels, Fossil Fuels, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Ethanol, Alligator, Everglades, Global Warming, Endangered Species Act, Green News

New research has uncovered a rather odd form of biodiesel: alligator fat.

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Suspicious Minds in Alaska

Astrid Caldas | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Polar Bears, Charles Monnett, Endangered Species Act, Arctic, Global Warming, Green News

If this study had been from a scientist without Dr. Monnett's visibility and role on the global warming movement, would the media even care? I suspect not.

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After Months of Tea Party Attacks on the Environment, Glimmers of Sanity Emerge

Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Grand Canyon, Energy Efficiency, Continuing Resolution, Policy Riders, Budget, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species, Light Bulbs, Town Hall Meetings, Tea Party, Endangered Species Act, Green News

A growing number of GOP lawmakers are starting to question the Tea Party's reckless overreach. They realize that anti-environmental efforts do not reflect the wishes of the American people.

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Republican Rarity: House Backs Dems Plan On Endangered Species Act

AP | By MATTHEW DALY | Posted 09.26.2011

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WASHINGTON -- In a rare defeat for Republican leadership, the House has backed a Democratic proposal allowing the Interior Department to continue addi...

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'Extinction Rider' Would Unravel Years of Work Protecting Rare Species

Kieran Suckling | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Endangered Species, Endangered Animals, Wildlife, Extinction Rider, Extinction, Preserving Wildlife, Endangered Species List, Wildlife Preservation, Endangered Species Act, Green News

Over the past four decades, the Endangered Species Act has kept extinction at bay for grizzly bears, bald eagles and wolves. We shouldn't deny that opportunity to hundreds more species that desperately need help but have yet to get any.

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Why Do the New House Republicans Hate the Bald Eagle?

Leda Huta | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Appropriations, Endangered Species Coalition, House of Representatives, Endangered Species, Endangered Species Act, Wildlife, Green News

Protecting endangered species should once again be a bipartisan priority. Putting the laws that protect species at risk puts all of us at risk.

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Open Season on the Endangered Species Act?

Michael Brune | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Gray Wolves, Endangered Species, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wyoming, Endangered Species Act, Green News

Apparently, it's open season on the Endangered Species Act -- a law that for nearly 40 years has successfully prevented the extinction of plants and animals and helped threatened populations recover.

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