Long-Stalled ESA Legislation Makes Headway In Congress
1 November 2005 - 1:00am
| Author: John Krist
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Rep. Richard Pombo has been trying to revise the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) for nearly a decade, having been handed that seemingly Sisyphean task by the GOP leadership shortly after the party took control of Congress in 1994. The Tracy Republican has never made much headway in what he calls an effort to “improve”— critics typically substitute “cripple” or “gut” — one of the nation’s key environmental laws.
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