The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) jointly announced that they had finalized changes to its Endangered Species Act (ESA) regulations, including provisions that limit the extent to which climate change impacts can be relied upon as a basis for determining whether a species should be listed as a “threatened species” under the Act.

Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL-6) introduced a bill entitled “Stopping EPA Overreach Act of 2017” (H.R. 637). The purpose of the bill is to prevent EPA and other agencies from using their existing statutory authority federal to regulate greenhouse gases.