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Senate Looks to Fix Outdated ESA
Last month, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife, chaired by Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE), held a hearing on the Endangered...
ASL Signs Coalition Letter to Pass ESA Amendments Act of 2025
Last week, American Stewards and 19 other national organizations, joined in a letter of support with Pacific Legal Foundation, supporting Chairman Bruce Westerman’s H.R. 1897 ESA...
Automatic Delisting of Endangered Species
American Stewards of Liberty (ASL) is calling on Congress to include a provision in the upcoming budget reconciliation package that would require endangered species listings to...
KNRC Wins Federal Case to Remove Lesser Prairie Chicken
On March 29, 2025, the Kansas Natural Resource Coalition (KNRC) won a victory in the Western District Court of Texas vacating the U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s 4(d) Rule for the...
ASL Releases “Thrown to the Wolves” Exposing Devastating Impacts on Rural Communities
American Stewards recently released a powerful new film called “Thrown to the Wolves,” documenting the severe consequences of reintroducing the gray wolf in Colorado and the...
House Passes Gray Wolf Delisting Bill
On December 18th, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 845, the Pet and Livestock Protection Act, 211 - 204. The bill was filed by U.S. Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) and...
ESA Amendments Act of 2025
Two key small landowner protection provisions were added to the ESA Amendments Act as one of the House Natural Resource Committee’s last actions for 2025. American Stewards has...
Small Landowner Protections Added to ESA Bill
Thank you for answering the call. Yesterday, during the committee markup on the ESA Amendment Act of 2025, two key provisions were added to the bill that protects small...
Trump’s Tweaks Will Help Endangered Species
By Shawn Regan, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute The Trump administration recently proposed reforms to correct one of the act’s most counterproductive aspects....
Trump Administration Revises ESA Regulations
The Department of Interior’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced new rules last week to “strengthen American energy independence, improve regulatory predictability and...
ESA and DOI “Playing God”
Senator John Kennedy, a well-known animal rights activist, inadvertently proved why the Endangered Species Act (ESA) is a miserable failure and needs reforming or eliminated. “I...
$250k Lost Annually by Family Ranchers with Wolves
The Office for Fiscal Regulatory Accountability (OFRA) has released a new estimate of the economic losses faced by family ranches when the endangered Grey Wolf is present on...
Prairie Chicken Delisted – Big Win for Landowners
On August 12th, a federal judge in Texas has, for a second time, vacated a Biden administration rule that listed the lesser prairie chicken as endangered and remanded the rule...
Environmentalists Sue Over Border Wall
The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) has sued Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem for waiving several environmental laws, including the Endangered Species Act and the National...
Rescinding the Definition of “Harm” Under the Endangered Species Act
Rob Gordon, Advisor to CFACT, writes how the U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s definition of harm needs to be eliminated. He also submitted comments on behalf of CFACT (Committee For A...
Legislation Filed to Remove Two Species from the ESA List
Legislation filed in Congress will remove the lesser prairie chicken and the dunes sagebrush lizard from the Endangered Species list freeing up energy and agricultural producers...
What One Wolf Can Do to One Cattle Operation
The University of California Davis (UCD) issued a study that revealed astounding economic damage a single gray wolf can wreak on one cattle operation. They found that one gray...
U.S. District Court Ends Biden-Era Lesser Prairie Chicken Rule
For the first time a federal court has struck down the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s overburdensome ‘4(d)’ rule under the Endangered Species Act for the lesser...
Reps. Lauren Boebert and Tom Tiffany’s Gray Wolf Bill Passes Out of House Natural Resources Committee
The Pet and Livestock Protection Act (PALPA) introduced by Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (CO-04) and Congressman Tom Tiffany (WI-07) passed through the House Natural Resources...
ESA Amendments Act of 2025
On Tuesday, April 25th, Harriet Hageman (R-WY), Chairman of the House Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee, held hearings on Chairman Westerman’s H.R. 1897, “ESA Amendments...
Endangered Species Act Bill is a Good Start
Here is the big lie about the Endangered Species Act (ESA). It doesn’t really save species. The handful of successful delistings are for species that shouldn’t have been on the...
119th Congress Key Legislation February 11, 2025
Reps. Green, Hageman to Refile Bill Stopping Future Natural Asset Companies Reps. Mark Green (TN-07) and Harriet Hageman (WY-AL) will reintroduced the Protect America’s Lands Act...
119th Congress Key Legislation, February 4, 2025
Harriet Hageman reintroduced three bills last week all protecting private property rights. The first was H.R. 775, the No Net Gain in Federal Lands Act intended to push back...
Alaska Proves Seal Critical Habitat Unlawful
The U.S. District Court of Alaska has handed the State a significant endangered species case victory, ruling that climate change does not justify a 160 million acre designation...
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