Tag Archives: Wild Earth Guardians
NMFS Accepts Two Petitions to List Porbeagle Sharks under the Endangered Species Act
Today, we announce that we have made a positive 90-day finding on two petitions (Wild Earth Guardians, and Humane Society US) submitted to us to consider listing porbeagle sharks (Lamna nasus) under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This action is being taken in response to a recent court order concerning the negative 90-day finding we published in 2010, and in response to new information we have on porbeagle sharks. Read the rest here 10:06
Disingenuous Bastards: Environmental lawyers transmogrify ESA’s original mission into a conversion vehicle of monetary gain
Despite the hundreds of billions of tax dollars spent over the years implementing the ESA, a new congressional report made public Tuesday provides abundant evidence that the law has been hijacked by environmental lawyers working on the taxpayer’s dime. Center for Biological Diversity and similar-minded Big Green outfits like Wild Earth Guardians “taking advantage of strict and unworkable statutory deadlines in the ESA, have filed literally hundreds of ESA lawsuits and thousands of petitions, and in essence, have overtaken the ESA priorities of the FWS and NMFS.”Read more here 07:12
