{"id":4409,"date":"2018-06-06T19:08:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T19:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/environment.law.harvard.edu\/?p=4409"},"modified":"2019-04-16T17:52:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T17:52:48","slug":"clinic-submits-comments-opposing-esa-petition-property-rights-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/2018\/06\/06\/clinic-submits-comments-opposing-esa-petition-property-rights-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinic Submits Comments Opposing ESA Petition from Property Rights Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 6, 2018, the Clinic submitted <a href=\"http:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/files\/2018\/06\/Comments-on-PLF-Petition-06.06.18.pdf\">comments<\/a> to the U.S. Fish &amp; Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service opposing a petition from the Pacific Legal Foundation to establish regulatory definitions for the terms \u201cspecies\u201d and \u201csubspecies\u201d under the Endangered Species Act.\u00a0 The Clinic\u2019s comments, on behalf of several eminent biologists including Professor James Mallet, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology in Residence in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, explain that the proposal is inconsistent with the use of those terms in the scientific community.\u00a0 If the Services were to grant the petition, they would be violating their statutory duties to list species based on the best available science and would be artificially restricting their ability to identify species and subspecies in need of protection.\u00a0 Clinic student Shirley Chan (JD \u201918) and Deputy Director Shaun Goho drafted the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 6, 2018, the Clinic submitted comments to the U.S. Fish &amp; Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinic-publications","category-news","post-archive"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}