The Endangered Species Act is our primary legal tool for environmental protection. We have until September 15-about a week-to save the Endangered Species Act. Not just some species, but the Act itself! Bush administration officials are proposing redefinitions of terms that would allow conservative appointees in federal agencies to virtually the destroy the Act. Their goal is to allow proposed projects to proceed even if such projects would kill off endangered species or place them or their habitats in jeopardy. If the changes are not effectively challenged by September 15, they will go into effect, and, Goodbye Species! Act now: Go to the end of this article for instructions. We need the public to flood the agencies involved with comments opposing the redefinitions and rule changes. When the Cat’s Away While our attention has been turned elsewhere, the Endangered Species Act, our major environmental protection legislation, is being gutted-now. Not by Congress. Not by the courts. Not even by Bush’s executive orders. It is being destroyed by redefinition, by a series of linguistic tricks. Causation, within an ecological system, is almost always systemic in nature. That is, there are disparate contributing […]