House panel approves 5 bills targeting ESA overhaul

摘要

Led by Western lawmakers, the House Natural Resources Committee today approved on mostly party-line votesrnfive bills that seek to corral the Endangered Species Act.rnThe individual bills are short, covering discrete topics in just a few pages each. One, for instance, would tightenrnlawyers' fees. Another would add economic costs to the consideration of whether to protect a species. A thirdrnaddresses only the gray wolf.