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Earlier this week, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service reissued a rule under Section 4(d) of the Endangered Species Act, allowing the "take" of polar bear.  The District of Columbia federal district court had overturned a prior version on the ground that the Service had failed to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act in promulg ...

caption id="attachment_40734" align="alignleft" width="222" Photo courtesy of FWS/caption The Center for Biological Diversity is threatening to sue the Fish & Wildlife Service for not imposing ruinous and unnecessary restrictions on private property owners throughout 37 states to protect the Northern long-eared bat. It contends that heavy-hand ...

Today, PLF submitted a petition with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, challenging a regulation that illegally extends the Endangered Species Act's burdensome take prohibition to all threatened species. The petition argues that federal bureaucrats have no authority to reverse Congress' judgment that the stringent take prohibition should not app ...

This week, the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) published The Road to Recovery: How restoring the Endangered Species Act's two-step process can prevent extinction and promote recovery. In that report, I explain how returning to Congress' original design for the Endangered Species Act---according to which the statute's most burden ...