Endangered Species Act

Trump reforms promote endangered species’ recovery

Reforming the 45-year-old Endangered Species Act statute seeks to better serve both the species it is supposed to recover and landowners caught up in the law’s cumbersome regulations.

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2018-07-25T08:32:33-04:00July 25th, 2018|Comments Off

New Heritage Foundation report highlights failures of Endangered Species Act

“Even if a species should never have been listed, while it is listed, landowners or businesses whose actions might unintentionally harm a member are potentially subject to the ESA’s fines and penalties."

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2018-05-23T10:58:00-04:00May 22nd, 2018|Comments Off

Center for Biological Diversity targets Alabama auto plant

Will the proposed Mazda-Toyota automobile plant in Limestone County, Alabama spell the end of the spring pygmy sunfish? Will the spring pygmy sunfish spell the end of the auto plant? Can't we have both?

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2018-04-17T05:52:37-04:00April 17th, 2018|Comments Off

Confiscating private land for frogs

CFACT Senior Policy Analyst Paul Driessen warns that a pending Supreme Court case could leave property owners at the mercy of federal bureaucrats who would have absolute authority to order them to renovate their property to welcome endangered species -- at their own expense, even if the species was not native to the property.

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Paul Driessen

|2018-01-04T12:09:52-05:00January 4th, 2018|Comments Off

The Pacific Walrus avoided federal protection. Alaskans couldn’t be happier

The Pacific walrus will not be listed under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced Wednesday, leaving intact a necessary food source for some Alaskan communities.

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CFACT Ed

|2017-10-05T12:51:10-04:00October 5th, 2017|Comments Off

Off to a bumbling start at Interior

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's designation of the the rusty patched bumblebee as endangered has already set in motion a rash of legal actions to block individual projects and stop all development in large swaths of land.

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Paul Driessen

|2017-04-10T12:19:56-04:00April 9th, 2017|2 Comments

Conservation – not more control

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen reports on the final assault by the Obama Administration against Western States -- and a new war being declared against much of the rest of the country -- all to "save" three species of bumblebee but really intended to place much of the rest of private and state land in the U.S. under very restrictive federal government control. The best way to stop this assault on human freedom is to repeal, or drastically modify, the Endangered Species Act.

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Paul Driessen

|2017-01-23T13:16:19-05:00January 23rd, 2017|1 Comment

Study: Predictions of polar bear extinction based on bad science

Predictions that global warming would wipe out polar bears are based on “scientifically unsound” computer models, according to a new study by a veteran zoologist at the University of Victoria.

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CFACT Ed

|2017-01-19T19:27:23-05:00January 19th, 2017|22 Comments

Feds tighten the screws on Endangered Species Act enforcement

The Interior Department has been quietly writing new rules and regulations under the Endangered Species Act that will hand broad new powers to federal bureaucrats.

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2016-04-08T08:06:41-04:00April 6th, 2016|3 Comments

The Big Green job-killing machine

The Center for Biological Diversity -- an offshoot of the violent radical group Earth First!, -- has been systematically using the Endangered Species Act to shut down jobs in the timber, mining, and other industries that once were major job suppliers in Western States. Worse, federal judges have been going along with this unwarranted taking of property and income for decades. It is time that this stops.

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Ron Arnold

|2016-04-01T17:53:50-04:00April 1st, 2016|2 Comments

Tiny sage grouse casts giant shadow over rural West

A ground-dwelling bird, no larger than a chicken and best known for its males’ exotic mating rituals, is at the center of the most comprehensive land-use plan ever imposed by the federal government.

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2015-07-21T20:55:44-04:00July 21st, 2015|12 Comments

Western States scramble to avoid ESA listing for greater sage-grouse

First, it was the spotted owl -- a horrific decision that destroyed jobs forever despite faulty science. Then, the land grabbers at the USGS and the FWS determined that the "Gunnison sage-grouse" is a different species (not just a variety, as is the scientific reality) from the "greater sage-grouse," and so took more land out of production. Now these servants of the state (not the people) want to list the "greater sage-grouse" -- yet another taking that is facing real opposition. The Endangered Species Act as written and executed is bad law that uses bad science -- and does not adequately protect the species it claims to favor.

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2014-12-01T15:48:05-05:00December 1st, 2014|Comments Off

Job creators sue the federal government over “sue and settle”

For years environmentalists have usurped individual private property rights and thwarted economic development. Now, thanks to Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, it appears that the job creators may have finally learned something from the extreme tactics of groups, like the Wild Earth Guardians and the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), which have been using the courts to their advantage by filing lawsuits against the federal government.

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Marita Noon

|2014-03-26T17:15:19-04:00March 25th, 2014|Comments Off