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The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA or "The Act"; 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq.) is the primary law in the United States for protecting and conserving imperiled species. Designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a "consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation", the ESA ...
The Endangered Species Act was enacted on Dec. 28, 1973, to establish protections for fish, wildlife and plants that are considered to be threatened or endangered. “The passing of the act ...
The Endangered Species Act was just one in a raft of environmental legislation passed beginning in the mid-1960s that included the Clean Water. The powerful new law charged the federal government ...
Without the Endangered Species Act, Wyoming could establish a grizzly bear hunting season. It's unclear how many grizzlies live in the unprotected areas outside the new proposed designated region.
The laws listed below meet the following criteria: (1) they were passed by the United States Congress, and (2) pertain to (a) the regulation of the interaction of humans and the natural environment, or (b) the conservation and/or management of natural or historic resources.
States, such as Florida, may have their own plans designating animals as threatened or endangered. Federal law serves as a floor, establishing the minimum a state may do to protect species on these lists, and the minimum number of animals on these lists. The Clean Air Act provides an example of conditional preemption. States regulators make the ...
III; 16 U.S.C. § 1536 (§ 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973) Defenders of Wildlife , 504 U.S. 555 (1992), was a landmark Supreme Court of the United States decision, handed down on June 12, 1992, that heightened standing requirements under Article III of the United States Constitution .
More than 1,600 species are listed as endangered or threatened under the law, which prohibits harming them or destroying their habitat.