{"id":382,"date":"2009-03-04T12:57:27","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T16:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=382"},"modified":"2009-03-04T12:57:27","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T16:57:27","slug":"obama-restores-scientific-review-in-endangered-species-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2009\/03\/04\/obama-restores-scientific-review-in-endangered-species-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama restores scientific review in Endangered Species Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiefbloggingofficer.com\/images\/synaptomys-cooperi-sm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft img-fluid\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chiefbloggingofficer.com\/images\/synaptomys-cooperi-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"205\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">President Obama issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/federal-eye\/2009\/03\/interior.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">memorandum yesterday<\/a> that restored scientific review to federal projects under the Endangered Species Act.\u00a0 The move overturned <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">steps taken<\/a> by the Bush administration in December that allowed federal agencies to conduct projects without requesting an independent review by the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service (a part of NOAA).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The president reiterated his <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">inauguration-day promise<\/a> to restore science to its rightful place in the government, saying yesterday that the work of scientists and experts will be respected in his administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Obama\u2019s move makes good on his promises to the ecological community, not just for the protection of endangered species but for, as he says, respect of scientists themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Read more at The Washington Post <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/44\/2009\/03\/03\/obama_restores_endangered_spec.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama issued a memorandum yesterday that restored scientific review to federal projects under the Endangered Species Act.\u00a0 The move overturned steps taken by the Bush administration in December that allowed federal agencies to conduct projects without requesting an independent review by the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service (a part of NOAA). The president&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[136,114],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecology-in-policy","tag-endangered-species-act","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}