[ken]

In case anyone considers writing this off as a partisan or economic issue, it's worth remembering that both of the acts mentioned here -- the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act -- were enacted by a Republican president during a recession.

He was hardly an environmentalist, either. That's how important this was 50 years ago.

[pstuart]

There's always an economic factor. But the politics you are describing died decades ago. Bipartisanship is as good as dead.

[DFHippie]

Republican environmentalists are mostly literally dead.