Undoing the new ESA consultation regulations?

Nick Rahall (D – W.Va.), joined by 12 co-sponsors, has introduced a joint resolution under the Congressional Review Act to overturn the Bush administration’s midnight regulations on ESA section 7 consultation.

Some of the many problems with the new regulations have been explained in comments submitted by Berkeley Law profs Eric Biber (coordinating the work of a group of distinguished law professors) and Holly Doremus (working with Margaret Clune Giblin on behalf of the Center for Progressive Reform).

Congressional Review Act, ESA