On December 28, 1973, President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act (ESA) into law. In celebrating the law's enactment, Nixon proclaimed that ...

President Richard M. Nixon enshrined the Endangered Species Act into the nation’s history 50 years ago on Thursday. Beleaguered by the Watergate scandal, Nixon signed the act unceremoniously ...

Fifty years ago, the Endangered Species Act was signed into law by President Richard Nixon with the intention of establishing a clear process for recovering species on the verge of extinction. In ...

AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: Richard Nixon is the president who signed the Endangered Species Act into law. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) RICHARD NIXON: Each of us all across this great land has a ...

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act into law 50 years ago on Thursday. The law promised to protect endangered plants and animals across the United ...

1966 On October 15, the Endangered Species Preservation Act (P.L. 89-669) is signed into law. The Act provides for the listing of native threatened and endangered species by the Secretary of the ...

I’m Dave Miller. The Endangered Species Act (ESA) was signed into law by President Richard Nixon almost exactly 50 years ago. It’s been called one of the strongest environmental laws in the world.

For more than 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has helped protect nearly 1,700 plants and animals, including the bald eagle. But the act, signed into law by Richard Nixon, ...

A half-century after Richard Nixon signed it into law, the Endangered Species Act now has a user manual to help farmers, thanks to the National Agricultural Law Center. Brigit Rollins, an attorney ...

For more than 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has helped protect nearly 1,700 plants and animals, including the bald eagle. But the act, signed into law by Richard Nixon, is expected to get a ...

The Endangered Species Act arrived in the nick of time. It had been passed by a near-unanimous bipartisan vote in Congress and signed into law by President Nixon. The act did several things ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing added protections for seven species of pangolin under the Endangered Species ...