FEATURE ARTICLE

October 2008

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The Bush Administration’s Proposed Endangered Species Act Rule Changes: A ‘Narrow’ Fix or a ‘Threat to Planet Earth’?

In 2006, Congressional Republicans unsuccessfully pushed for a legislative overhaul of the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). With the new Democratic majority in Congress, and the defeat of former Congressman Richard Pombo (R-CA), a strong advocate of changes to the ESA, ESA reform appeared to be dead on arrival.