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Author:  Damien M. Schiff The Treehugger Blog reports that many in the environmental community are disappointed by the new Administration's environmental track record.  The Obama Administration has listed only two out of 250 candidate species for Endangered Species Act protection since taking over the reins from th ...

Author: Brandon Middleton Earlier this month the Public Policy Institute of California issued a noteworthy paper on the Golden State's water crisis, California Water Myths.  The paper includes a brief discussion of the Endangered Species Act and whether this law and other policy concerns are really the "true villians" in t ...

Author: Brandon Middleton In yesterday's Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Attorney General Dan Sullivan elaborates on Governor Sean Parnell's "comprehensive strategy to ensure that the ESA is not used as a tool to lock up Alaska's resources and shut down our economy." Sullivan asks Alaskans to not be naïve towards the motives of ...

Yesterday, PLF filed a lawsuit in federal court in Riverside, California, to challenge the United States Fish and Wildlife Service’s continuing failure to issue a final determination on the Riverside County Farm Bureau’s petition to delist the Stephens’ kangaroo rat from the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The Farm Bureau submitted ...

Author: Brandon Middleton In response to a federal court's decision to halt a West Virginia wind energy project due to the potential resulting harm the project may have on Indiana bats, the Baltimore Sun's Tim Wheeler asks what the ramifications of the court's decision will be for simlar projects in Maryland: "Will opponents of win ...

Author:  Damien M. Schiff Jamie Rappaport Clark, the Service's director from 1997 to 2001, had this oped in last Friday's Washington Post, excoriating the Obama Administration and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar for going ahead, in March of 2009, with a Bush Administration proposal to delist the Northern Rockies "dist ...

Author: Brandon Middleton Nearly twenty years ago, an Ontario, California company (Kaiser Ventures) proposed the development of a large landfill that would help to address Southern California's critical need for landfill space. But Kaiser didn't just propose an ordinary landfill — instead, it planned on completing the first landfill t ...

Author: Brandon Middleton Recall that last month a federal court halted a West Virginia wind energy project based on threats the project posed to the endangered Indiana bat. The court's decision was issued despite the facts that an Indiana bat had never been seen on the project site and that the bat caves of concern … ...

Author: Brandon Middleton As we noted earlier, the State of Alaska is prepared to contest bogus Endangered Species Act restrictions.  Leading the effort is Governor Sean Parnell, who sees the issue of ESA abuse as a critical one for Alaska's future: He announced plans to fight the scope of the federal Endangered Species Act, including &# ...