The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is among the nation's most important and powerful environmental laws. It is also a source of great conflict and controversy.

Reform is crucial if we are to achieve the Endangered Species Act's ambitious goals and conserve the world’s endangered plants and animals.

At this event, leading environmental policy experts, academics, and legal scholars will discuss their proposals for new and innovative reforms that challenge conventional conservation strategies and seek to enhance economic efficiency and environmental conservation simultaneously.

On May 14, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced that the Department of the Interior had classified the polar bear as a threatened species, giving the bears protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The decision was itself momentous, the first listing of a species under the ESA in which the...

The listing of the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act will almost surely go down in history as the turning point in the global warming debate.

Atug of war existsbetween regulation and the natural progress of opulence. Regulation begins as an attack on gradual progress but is often overwhelmed by it.