EPA Floats Novel Tool For Ranking Species Threatened By Climate Change

EPA is floating a draft framework that for the first time ranks endangered species according to their current and future vulnerabilities to both climate change and non-climate impacts, although the agency warns that the new tool is intended only for species management and planning, not species listing and other regulatory decisions. The agency announced in a Nov. 25 Federal Register notice that it is taking public comment on a draft document, "A Framework for Categorizing the Relative Vulnerability of Threatened...