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Policy News: December 20, 2021

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This nonprofit has been at the center of conspiracy theories that a lab in Wuhan, China allowed the novel coronavirus to emerge. The National Institutes of Health provided a grant to the EcoHealth Alliance to investigate the risk of bat coronavirus emergence. Some of the funding for this grant went to the Wuhan lab. Executive Branch.

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The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon. The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway.

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Staff at the time called it a “dire emergency.”. In the early 1990s, several salmon populations landed on the endangered species list. Tagged fish can be detected by special technology, often at dams, and tag data can provide a window into fish migration and survival.

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ESA Policy News: November 8, 2021

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Biden administration proposed repealing Trump administration Endangered Species Act regulations. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) have expressed concerns over the total price tag of the budget reconciliation bill. . Trump administration removed gray wolves from the endangered species list in November 2020.

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