I noted a couple of days ago that the Fish & Wildlife Service is apparently considering administrative revisions to the Endangered Species Act. I obviously don't read Salon regularly, because they published the story last week.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is maneuvering to fundamentally weaken the Endangered Species Act, its strategy laid out in an internal 117-page draft proposal obtained by Salon. The proposed changes limit the number of species that can be protected and curtail the acres of wildlife habitat to be preserved. It shifts authority to enforce the act from the federal government to the states, and it dilutes legal barriers that protect habitat from sprawl, logging or mining. (source)
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