Last week, the Committee on Ecological Risk Assessment of the National Academy of Sciences released a report urging reform in the registration of pesticides under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. The report focuses on Endangered Species Act consultation … Continue reading
Balance, reason, science, and common sense. These pillars of successful environmental policy are far more powerful — and eminently more effective than heavy-handed government. And yet, these five words are sorely missing in how regulators and activist groups view responsible … Continue reading
This week, PLF filed suit against the United States Fish & Wildlife Service, after the Service delayed delisting two species, and down-listing another, for more than five years. The Service has known that these three species should be reclassified based … Continue reading
In December we reported on a California appellate court decision which says that when the California Fish & Game Commission erroneously lists a species under the California Endangered Species Act (CESA), it cannot correct the mistake. The case arises out … Continue reading
NPR’s All Things Considered interviewed PLF’s Alan DeSerio about the wood stork’s imminent change from “endangered” to “threatened” status. As I wrote last month, the proposed status change comes after years of PLF pressuring the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service … Continue reading
Friday, the Palm Beach Post ran an op-ed by Alan DeSerio, managing attorney for PLF’s Atlantic Center in Florida. DeSerio responds to an op-ed run by the paper, which portrayed an imaginary version of PLF’s involvement in the FWS’s proposed … Continue reading
PLF attorneys filed a federal lawsuit in Idaho today because the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to respond to a petition that asks the agency to remove the Southern Selkirk Mountain Caribou Population from the endangered species list. PLF … Continue reading