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

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 ...

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 ...

When the Endangered Species Act was signed into law 50 years ago, nothing about it was controversial.The legislation had passed unopposed in the Senate and by a near-unanimous majority (355-4) in ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

Fifty years ago, on December 28, 1973, President Richard Nixon signed The Endangered Species Act into law. The full title of the ESA was “an Act to provide for the conservation of endangered and ...

Jonathan Adlerwriting at Reason.com. Dec. 28: On December 28, 1973, President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act (ESA) into law. . . . Nixon proclaimed that the law would “provide ...

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 ...

The Endangered Species Act was signed 50 years ago Thursday. Deborah Sivas, a professor of environmental law at Stanford University, tells NPR's A Martinez why the law needs to be updated.

Thursday marks 50 years sincethe federal Endangered Species Act was signed into law by President Richard Nixon. The landmark conservation legislation has been celebrated for helping restore ...