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Published online 12 August 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1036
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US may scale back reviews of endangered species listings
Environmentalists protest early reports of plan.
The US Department of the Interior has announced plans to relax federal planning procedures under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), reviving a long-stalled debate over the nation’s most powerful environmental law.
The rule would make it easier for federal agencies to build roads, approve pipelines or conduct logging operations — without seeking scientific consultations regarding impacts on threatened and endangered species.
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And once again the Bush administration/republicans are trying to gut the ESA. Hopefully, once again, better reasoning will prevail. This is a pathetic last-ditch effort to reverse actual gains that endangered species have made with protection.