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ZapRoot: Your Kid’s a Fatty

On this week’s episode: Obesity expands to European children. Ford increases green efforts. Robert De Niro’s restaurant servers an endangered species.

ZapRoot: Bush Neuters Endangered Species Act

On this week’s episode: The Endangered Species Act is in grave danger. Turn your online searching green and charitable with GoodSearch. And, we bring to you all new Green Gadgets.

Federal Government Delays Protecting Polar Bear

Earth Justice
Global warming continues to destroy polar bear habitat
January 7, 2008
Juneau, AK — The Department of the Interior announced today that it will delay its decision whether to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act due to the threat posed by global climate change. Climate change is melting [...]

Congress Urged to Act as Bush Administration Again Fails Pacific Northwest Salmon

Feds abandon only real salmon recovery strategy in new Columbia Snake plan          
October 31, 2007
EarthJustice 
Dam on Columbia River, Washington
Photo by US Army Corps of Engineers
Seattle, WA — Today the federal government released its latest plan for operating the dams and locks on the Columbia and Snake rivers in ways supposedly compliant with Endangered Species Act [...]

Butterfly Back from the Brink of Extinction

TreeHugger
Thanks to the Endangered Species Act, the rare and tiny El Segundo blue butterfly is back from the brink of extinction and taking up residence along the bluffs of a a popular beach south of the Los Angeles International Airport, says University of Southern California research assistant professor Travis Longcore.
“In the national picture, this [...]

U.S. Takes First Step to Protect Emperor Penguin and 9 Others

Climate Crisis Coalition
U.S. Takes First Step to Protect Emperor Penguin and 9 Others
By Felicity Barringer, The New York Times, July 11, 2007
“The federal Fish and Wildlife Service took the first step yesterday toward declaring that the emperor penguin and nine other species of penguin need the protections of the Endangered Species Act. One of [...]

EarthJustice Beats Back Cheney Klamath Interference

From: EarthJustice Washington Post series implicates the Vice President in undoing roadless protections as well
July 3, 2007

 

Seattle, WA — The Washington Post reported last Wednesday that Vice President Dick Cheney pressured federal officials to divert more water to Klamath Basin farmers in 2002. This came on the heels of a 2001 court order [...]

The Bald Eagle is Back in the Black

TreeHuggerPhoto credit: Jim Frazier
The American bald eagle is back after a four-decade fight for survival. The government has just declared that the national symbol no longer requires the protection of the federal Endangered Species Act.
“Today I am proud to announce the eagle has returned,” Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne proclaimed at a ceremony near the Jefferson [...]