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--esa2 lost 717captThe Florida panther is under attack.Majestic panthers once roamed throughout the Southeastern U.S., but now they can be found in justthree Florida counties. What little remains of their habitat is constantly under siege from development, oil drilling and mining.And now the Florida Wildlife Commission is trying to persuade the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to remove the Florida panther from the endangered species list!<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=c0df6decaa4adcf95b74a3dced5938da5d4968c8b8cf42396cd584a35af99da50f96859d337506ec" title="How bizarre that Florida wildlife officials won't protect Florida panthers?? That means you must! Tell the USFWS to maintain protections for the Florida panther now." id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436372230319_103116" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(25, 106, 212); outline: none; background: transparent;">How bizarre that Florida wildlife officials won't protect Florida panthers?? That means you must! Tell the USFWS to maintain protections for the Florida panther now.</a>On its own website, the USFWS states that fewer than 180 Florida panthers remain in the wild.1 There have already been 21 Florida panther deaths this year.2 And federal wildlife officials are currently moving forward with a proposal to remove the eastern cougar from the endangered species list-leaving the Florida panther as the only subspecies of these predators east of the Mississippi River.3The USFWS can stop efforts to undermine protection of the Florida panther. But they need to hear from you. Over 170,000 SierraRise activists have already sent messages in support of protecting Florida panthers and their habitat. Now it's your turn.3 wolf bills<h1 class="legDetail" style="color: rgb(32, 42, 67); line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 1.75em; width: 736px;">H.R.1985 - Pacific Northwest Gray Wolf Management Act of 2015</h1><a target="blank" href="https://www.congress.gov/member/dan-newhouse/N000189" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); line-height: 15.996px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Newhouse, Dan [R-WA-4]</a> (Introduced 04/23/2015)<table class="item_table" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; width: 685px; border-top: 1px solid rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 15.996px;"><tbody><tr><td class="actions" style="vertical-align: top; padding: 12px 10px; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a target="blank" href="https://www.congress.gov/member/greg-walden/W000791" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139);">Rep. Walden, Greg [R-OR-2]</a></td><td class="date" style="vertical-align: top; padding: 12px 10px; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); white-space: nowrap;">04/23/2015</td></tr><tr><td class="actions" style="vertical-align: top; padding: 12px 10px; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a target="blank" href="https://www.congress.gov/member/chris-stewart/S001192" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139);">Rep. Stewart, Chris [R-UT-2]</a></td><td class="date" style="vertical-align: top; padding: 12px 10px; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); white-space: nowrap;">04/23/2015</td></tr><tr><td class="actions" style="vertical-align: top; padding: 12px 10px; border-top: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a target="blank" href="https://www.congress.gov/member/cathy-mcmorris-rodgers/M001159" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139);">Rep. McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R-WA-5]</a></td></tr></tbody></table>nrdc: his month, Congress was very busy, apparently trying to get things done before the holidays, following which the budget battle will consume Hill activity for who knows how long.In the crazy bill introduction category, Sens. Paul (R-KY), Lee (R-UT) and Heller (R-NV) and  Rep. Amodei (R-NV) introduced companion bills entitled the “Endangered Species Management Self-Determination Act” (<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:H.R.3533:" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 239, 244); color: rgb(128, 173, 201); text-decoration-line: none;">H.R. 3533</a>; <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:S.1731:" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 239, 244); color: rgb(128, 173, 201); text-decoration-line: none;">S. 1731</a>), which give complete control over endangered species management to states – regardless of whether such states actually want to do what’s best for imperiled species or are equipped to do so. Additionally, it would require the consent of governors and passage of a joint resolution by Congress to list new species, leaving protections to politics—not science.  And it would delist species after five years, regardless of whether they have recovered.What’s funny is that the bill’s sponsors actually pretend it will enhance endangered species protections, with Sen. Paul stating that the “bill will better protect endangered species by allowing a more tailored response as implemented by the states." This just shows that these representatives know the public supports the ESA and are thus trying to cover up the destruction their bill would do to the Act and the critters it protects.The Senate Energy and Commerce Committee also <a href="http://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings-and-business-meetings?ID=ef03ed03-d679-46dc-8ecb-3f08079230ca" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 239, 244); color: rgb(128, 173, 201); text-decoration-line: none;">marked up a bunch of bills</a> including a truly terrible grazing bill (<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:S.258:" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 239, 244); color: rgb(128, 173, 201); text-decoration-line: none;">S. 258</a>), which, among other things, exempts “trailing” of domestic livestock from environmental review, even though this practice – which involves ranchers grazing sheep or cattle on a broad area going from one point to another as opposed to on a discrete piece of land or allotment for a fixed time – leads domestic sheep to interact with bighorn sheep and transmit diseases to these iconic species. In one incident in 2009, bighorn contact with domestic sheep in the mountains of Nevada resulted in the deaths of 88 bighorns and one mountain goat—one-third of the entire population in that particular region. The Senate Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining also <a href="http://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings-and-business-meetings?ID=9cbae850-8824-4ee5-b8b2-985aab1c5490" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 239, 244); color: rgb(128, 173, 201); text-decoration-line: none;">held a hearing on a slew of bills</a>, including an anti-ESA one: <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:S.1479:" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 239, 244); color: rgb(128, 173, 201); text-decoration-line: none;">S. 1479</a>. Not only would S. 1479 wreak havoc on threatened and endangered species through a gross expansion of logging and grazing, but it also fundamentally undermines the ESA through major changes to the implementation of listing decisions, recovery plans, and critical habitat designations. For example, the bill seems to encourage listing decisions made on factors outside of the best available science and the needs of species.Lastly, conference negotiations continued on the Farm bill and Water Resources Development Act, which I wrote about <a href="http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/epepper/october_2013_legislative_threa.html" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 239, 244); color: rgb(128, 173, 201); text-decoration-line: none;">here</a> last month. The conference committees will attempt to wrap these up when they return after Thanksgiving.--Please OPPOSE all efforts to weaken the Endangered Species Act including bill S. 1731/H.R. 3533, which would harm imperiled species by:<ul style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; line-height: 16px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 1.2em; outline: none; zoom: 1;">Automatically removing them from the lists of endangered and threatened species after five years, whether or not they've recovered.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 1.2em; outline: none; zoom: 1;">Letting politics win over science by requiring that state governors give their consent before species in their states can be listed under the ESA, and requiring a joint resolution of Congress to approve the listing of species as threatened or endangered.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 1.2em; outline: none; zoom: 1;">Undermining citizens' ability to enforce the ESA in court and to help protect imperiled species by filing citizen listing petitions</li></ul>=ATP also hosted a conference in Bozeman, Mont last May featuring Jim Beers, former Chief of National Wildlife Refuge Operations.  Beers addressed the lies, deceit and fraud employed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the state wildlife agencies in Montana and Idaho and environmental groups to illegally introduce Canadian wolves where they were never native, nor endangered.--ati:  The gray wolf not only spreads diseases like echinococcosis that can infect humans, inflicts a heavy predation toll on struggling ranchers and has all but wiped out ecologically vulnerable game herds like moose and elk, they have been “introduced” to areas of the United States that are not part of their natural range, disrupting and damaging environment.That’s why ranchers, farmers and real conservationists around the country are applauding ATP’s victory in our fight to have the invasive, foreign gray wolf removed from the Endangered Species List.  Congress voted last week to kick the wolf off the List, the first time a species has been removed through a vote of Congress.But one Boulder, Colo. newspaper with a history of making up stories to attack ATP didn’t take it so well.  In the print equivalent of a temper tantrum in a grocery store aisle, the paper rants:<blockquote style="padding: 10px 35.75px; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 5px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(224, 224, 224) rgb(224, 224, 224) rgb(224, 224, 224) rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 10px 0px; width: 500.5px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241);">“Help fight Gang Green!” these forward-thinking individuals proclaim on their websites, calling themselves “a no-compromise grassroots organization dedicated to fighting the radical environmentalist agenda.”Their latest press release lauds the recent removal of the gray wolf from the endangered species list.Donny Ferguson, who was WTP’s director of public relations in 2009 and is now listed as ATP’s executive director, acknowledges in the release that his group seeks “the eventual total repeal of the Endangered Species Act. … Thanks to meddling by East Coast environmentalists, wolves are now a fast-spreading predator that kills livestock, spreads disease and is wiping out sensitive natural game herds like elk and moose.”Their websites also warn that “dozens of radical eco-organizations whose stated purpose is to dismantle the free enterprise system — and our Constitutionally protected rights — through so-called environmental protection have set their sights on robbing Americans of the right to exist, achieve and produce.”</blockquote>Sorry to have you so rabid.  We’ll be sure to send you a nice new rug. Annoy the liberal media.  Chip in $10 to<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Endangered_Species_Act">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Endangered_Species_Act</a><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Endangered Species Act of 1973, Public Law 93-205, was approved December 28, 1973, 87 Stat. 884.There are 1912 species currently listed as endangered species. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://ecos.fws.gov/tess_public/SpeciesReport.do?dsource=plants" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">[1]</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://ecos.fws.gov/tess_public/SpeciesReport.do?dsource=animals" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">[2]</a>Since 1973, only 33 species have been delisted, seven because they went extinct and 12 more because they should not have been listed in the first place. Six more may be cases of data error, which is certainly the case with the gray whale and American alligator. The brown pelican’s and Arctic peregrine falcon’s recoveries have far more to do with the ban on the insecticide DDT than with the Endangered Species Act.<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; background-image: none;">Documents & Reports</h2><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/issues/more/esa/TESRA/hr3824_housepassed.pdf" style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAE5JREFUeF5lykEKgDAMBdF/+17Es/QkiosiCBURXIzJooZohmweX6gwmkCeI+Oqc2C1FnvnF2ejlQYU0tLK2NjY6f/l8V12Ti7uhFFgDj19b58EwXuqkAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2005</a>. "An Act to amend and reauthorize the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to provide greater results conserving and recovering listed species, and for other purposes." H. R. 3824, 109th Congress, 1st Session. As passed by the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.House_of_Representatives" title="U.S. House of Representatives" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">U.S. House of Representatives</a>.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/issues/more/esa/implementationreport.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Implementation of the Endangered Species Act of 1973</a>. Report to the House Committee on Resources, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_Pombo" title="Richard Pombo" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">Richard W. Pombo</a>, Chairman, Majority Staff 109th Congress, May 2005.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.earthjustice.org/library/reports/Citizens_Guide_ESA.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAAAnOwc2AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAE5JREFUeF5lykEKgDAMBdF/+17Es/QkiosiCBURXIzJooZohmweX6gwmkCeI+Oqc2C1FnvnF2ejlQYU0tLK2NjY6f/l8V12Ti7uhFFgDj19b58EwXuqkAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"Citizens' Guide to the Endangered Species Act,"</a> 2003 report by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Earthjustice" title="Earthjustice" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">Earthjustice</a> and the Endangered Species Coalition.</li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; background-image: none;">Related SourceWatch Resources</h2><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.Department_of_the_Interior" title="U.S. Department of the Interior" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">U.S. Department of the Interior</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S._Fish_and_Wildlife_Service" title="U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Brian_Czech" title="Brian Czech" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">Brian Czech</a> - author of a book on the Act</li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; background-image: none;">External links</h2><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAMAAABW4lS6AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAAZQTFRFAFKM////QIUK9QAAAAJ0Uk5T/wDltzBKAAAAGklEQVR42mJgBAEGokgGBjBGBxBxsBqAAAMACHwALd5r8ygAAAAASUVORK5CYII=");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Charles Pope, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/309351_species29.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC"); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"Democrats move to protect species act. Dicks warns Interior Department against 'end run' changes,"</a> Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 28, 2007.</li></ul></div><div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 5px; margin-top: 1em; clear: both; line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">Categories</a>: <ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style: none none; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left-style: none; padding: 0px 0.5em 0px 0.25em; zoom: 1;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Environment" title="Category:Environment" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">Environment</a></li></ul></div></div>=<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act</a>The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_7_of_the_United_States_Code" title="Title 7 of the United States Code" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">7 U.S.C.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/7/136.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">§ 136</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_16_of_the_United_States_Code" title="Title 16 of the United States Code" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">16 U.S.C.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/16/1531.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat;">§ 1531</a> et seq.) is one of the dozens of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_environmental_law" title="United States environmental law" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">United States environmental laws</a> passed in the 1970s. Signed into law by President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">Richard Nixon</a> on December 28, 1973, it was designed to protect critically <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_species" title="Endangered species" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">imperiled species</a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction" title="Extinction" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">extinction</a> as a "consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_conservation" title="Habitat conservation" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">conservation</a>."The Act is administered by two federal agencies, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Fish_and_Wildlife_Service" title="United States Fish and Wildlife Service" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">United States Fish and Wildlife Service</a> (FWS) and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Oceanic_and_Atmospheric_Administration" title="National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</a> (NOAA).<table id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 5px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19.1875px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><tbody><tr><td><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; background-image: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#Listing_status" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">1 Listing status</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#History" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">2 History</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#Act_of_1966" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">2.1 Act of 1966</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#Amendment_of_1969" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">2.2 Amendment of 1969</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#Endangered_Species_Act" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">2.3 Endangered Species Act</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#Preventing_extinction" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">3 Preventing extinction</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#Petition_and_listing" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">3.1 Petition and listing</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#Listing_process" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">3.2 Listing process</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#Public_notice.2C_comments_and_judicial_review" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">3.3 Public notice, comments and judicial review</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#Species_survival_and_recovery" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">4 Species survival and recovery</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#Critical_habitat" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">4.1 Critical habitat</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#Plans.2C_permits.2C_and_agreements" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">4.2 Plans, permits, and agreements</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#Recovery_plan" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">4.2.1 Recovery plan</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#Exemptions" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">4.2.2 Exemptions</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#Habitat_Conservation_Plans" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">4.2.3 Habitat Conservation Plans</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#.22No_Surprises.22_rule" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">4.2.4 "No Surprises" rule</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#.22Safe_Harbor.22_agreements" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">4.2.5 "Safe Harbor" agreements</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#Candidate_Conservation_Agreements" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">4.2.6 Candidate Conservation Agreements</a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#Experimental_Populations" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">4.2.7 Experimental Populations</a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#Delisting" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">5 Delisting</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#Effectiveness" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">6 Effectiveness</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#Positive_effects" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">6.1 Positive effects</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-23" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#Criticism" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">6.2 Criticism</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#State_endangered_species_lists" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">7 State endangered species lists</a><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-25" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#Penalties" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">7.1 Penalties</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-26" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#Use_of_money_received_through_violations_of_the_ESA" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">7.2 Use of money received through violations of the ESA</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-27" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">8 See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-28" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#Footnotes" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">9 Footnotes</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-29" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">10 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-30" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">11 External links</a></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table>
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DCheny ?once sorta ok on green [really? wise use?], but only 1 of 16 ~ ESA; 1 of 26 support RR ~ Clean water act; ~ superfund, safe drink act; ~ cit suit ~ chem p50 strat ignor?

connaughton? reinterpret law (eg used farmed salmon to remove from ES list so logging co did not have to protect wild ! 33 rfk2? b2 wanted to replace god squad w norton 153tho citzen suits on ESA had high success rate thus not friv. pombo---<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td class="body" width="50%" style="line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">September 30, 2005 | <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080509162511/http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/back_issues.php" class="body" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 51); text-decoration-line: none;">Back Issues</a></td><td class="body" align="right" width="50%" style="line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">« <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080509162511/http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000296.php" class="body" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 51); text-decoration-line: none;">previous</a> | <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080509162511/http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000298.php" class="body" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 51); text-decoration-line: none;">next</a> »</td></tr></tbody></table>Environmentalists Decry House Passage of Endangered Species 'Reform'By a vote of 229 to 193, the U.S. House yesterday passed a bill
that environmentalists say will completely cripple the
Endangered Species Act (ESA). Enacted into law in 1973 by
President Richard Nixon, the ESA has been a cornerstone of
America's environmental protection framework. The bill will move
to the Senate next week.Sponsored by Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA), a longtime foe of ESA,
the new legislation is entitled the "Threatened and Endangered
Species Recovery Act," or TESRA. It has triggered a firestorm of
opposition across the entire spectrum of environmental
organizations, who have united in an all-out effort to kill it
in the Senate.Finding the phrase "Recovery Act" more than ironic, Defenders of
Wildlife President Rodger Schlickeisen says TESRA "Runs counter
to the very intent of the Endangered Species Act," containing
"provisions that would severely cripple the federal effort to
recover endangered plants and animals." [1]Environmentalists point out that the ESA through the years has
saved such species as the bald eagle, Florida manatee and the
key deer. If Rep. Pombo's TESRA had been in effect then, not
even the bald eagle would qualify for listing.Drawing particular alarm is a provision that would end the
protection of critical habitat necessary for the survival and
recovery of plants and animals. Under the current law, areas
designated "essential to the conservation of species" qualify as
"critical habitat" and are subject to federal protection.
Pombo's bill replaces "critical habitat" with a recovery plan
that merely identifies areas that are valuable to the species,
but does not mandate any specific federal protection.Critics charge that this change takes away the most effective
provision of the ESA. Species that live in designated critical
habitat are twice as likely to survive as those without this
form of protection. [2]TESRA would also require taxpayers to pay developers and other
landowners to comply with the ESA--in essence paying people not
to break the law. It does this by requiring the Department of
Interior to respond within 180 days to a landowner's request to
implement a development plan; then, if the project is not
permitted, the federal government must pay for any value that is
allegedly lost. This, says Kieran Suckling of the Center for
Biological Diversity, literally "begs developers to plan
projects that allow them to extort money from the government."
[3]Moreover, while the current ESA requires that all decisions be
based on the "best scientific and commercial information"
available, the Pombo bill removes that authority from scientific
experts and transfers it to Interior Secretary Gale Norton,
whose record consistently favors commercial interests over
environmental protection.The Pombo bill also eliminates the protection for "threatened"
species, i.e. species not yet considered endangered, but whose
population levels have reached dangerously low levels. [4]TESRA also makes it extremely difficult to list any species in
the first place. In order for a species to be listed under
TESRA, the Fish and Wildlife Service will have to duplicate and
store all data on habitat decisions in every state in which the
species exists. Environmental groups see this as a way to
"bureaucratize a system that is already working fine." [5]###SOURCES: 
[1] "<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080509162511/http://www.saveesa.org/news/pr091905.html">Assault on Endangered Species Act: Pombo Moving Legislation
that would Cripple Endangered Species Act</a>," Defenders of
Wildlife, Sept. 19. 2005.
[2] "<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080509162511/http://actionnetwork.org/BIODIVERSITY/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=3618880">Pombo's Anti-Endangered Species Bill Leaked Again</a>," Center
for Biological Diversity, Sept. 15, 2005.
[3] Ibid. 
[4] Ibid. 
[5] Ibid. 
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The letter was spearheaded by Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), and Doc Hastings (R-Wash.), chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee. Dems who signed off on the letter included Sens. Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.) and Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Reps. Terri Sewell (Ala.) and Tim Walz (Minn.), Jim Matheson (Utah), and Collin Peterson (Minn.).