EPA Seeks Comment On Report Into Climate's Impacts On Vulnerable Species

November 27, 2009
EPA is seeking public comment on a draft report on determining the climate change impacts on vulnerable species, which could be a first step in a move to expand climate policies into the protection of endangered species. The report, "A Framework for Categorizing the Relative Vulnerability of Threatened and Endangered Species to Climate Change," comes as some activists have argued that the Endangered Species Act should be used as a means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. According to a notice...


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