Protecting endangered species used to be bipartisan — it needs to be again
Fifty years ago this month, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) went into effect. The Senate unanimously passed the bill in July 1973. A statement of bipartisan support That would be almost unthinkable today, and the House overwhelmingly supported it, 355-4.When signed, President Richard Nixon declared a new law It would preserve “an irreplaceable part of […]