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Marjorie Mulhall is Associate Legislative Counsel for Policy and Legislation at Earthjustice. A wildlife enthusiast, Marjorie works on the Hill to defend and strengthen the Endangered Species Act so that endangered critters and plants—and the places they live and grow—are protected. She first became interested in environmental law after moving to Olympia, Washington, as a child, where she was blown away by the state's beautiful forests, but disturbed by clear cuts dotting the hillsides. In her free time, Marjorie enjoys taking getaway trips and exploring all that D.C. has to offer, which, even though it lacks mountains, she thinks is pretty great in its own way.

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27 July 2011, 1:42 PM
Marjorie Mulhall

America's Wildlife Win Congressional Showdown

Republicans abandon ship to keep species on the ESA ark
Rep. Norm Dicks (D-WA)

The current leaders in the House think that saving America’s wildlife is asking too much so they introduced legislation to remove all funds used by the government to add new species to those receiving ESA protections, never mind there’s a list 260 species long waiting to get on the ark.

The legislation also would have similarly frozen any work to designate habitat critical to species protection and recovery. Finally it would have prevented the government from increasing protection for those species spiraling from threatened to the more critical endangered status.
But when the time came to vote, the House leaders lost.

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