The far-left environmental lobby has a problem with Rep. Bruce Westerman’s proposed amendments to the Endangered Species Act. The Sierra Club calls them “nothing short of a tragedy.” The Center for Biological Diversity simply calls it the “Extinction Act.”
These slogans are alarming and completely disconnected from what the bill does and from the stubborn reality of a law that is failing in its very mission.
The ESA is one of the most important conservation statutes ever enacted. Its founding purpose was to pull imperiled species back from the brink of extinction and restore them to thriving populations. That is precisely why its failure demands action.
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