Several endangered species in the U.S. have recovered from their endangered status thanks to federal protections.

The Endangered Species Act notably marked its 50th year on December 28, 2023, and I wrote about it here. It is known as one of the most effective environmental statutes for protecting the environment ...

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service (collectively, “Service”) is proposing to rescind the regulatory definition of “harm” in the Endangered Species ...

“Really an assault on the act like we’ve never seen before,” a law professor at Harvard University who previously worked for ...

The Trump administration says changes to Endangered Species Act rules balance costs and benefits. Conservationists see risks ...

Environmentalists argue that the definition of "take," though, has always included actions that harm species, and the definition of "harm" has been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. The proposed rule ...

The Animal Welfare Institute is appalled by the Trump administration’s latest maneuver in its ongoing efforts to desecrate the Endangered Species Act (ESA). An internal memorandum from the US Fish and ...

The Trump administration aims to remove degradation of habitat from its definition of "harm" to endangered species, proposing Wednesday a rule change that would open the door to human activity in ...

It wouldn’t make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down, or to bar killing endangered salmon while allowing a dam to dry out their ...

Penned by the late Justice Antonin Scalia, the dissent takes jabs at threatened slugs for not having feelings while envisioning a world where the ESA has nothing to do with protecting endangered ...

The Trump administration plans to eliminate habitat protections for endangered and threatened species in a move environmentalists say would lead to the extinction of critically endangered species ...