During a House Resources Committee hearing this week on an industry-backed
bill to reform the Endangered Species Act, Rep. Helen Chenoweth-Hage, R
Idaho, instead called for repealing the entire law.
Other Western Republican committee members, who support the measure,
H.R. 3160, said it would make incremental but beneficial changes in a law
they said was not working to save species. The bill would increase the
influence of private landowners and states over species protection …
